Posted by admin on Sep 26, 2008 in
Where Am I? Got into Omaha yesterday afternoon… bobtailed right to the hospital to drop off the instructor. He had a family member drive me over to his house. Been chillin here ever since. Got a text message a while ago saying the baby was born at 0325 this morning, a girl and both Momma and baby are doing just fine. Congrats to them!
Should be here until probably tomorrow, then we’ll head back out. That’s all for now!
Posted by admin on Sep 25, 2008 in
Where Am I? Left the yard tonight around 1500hrs… headed to our 90 (unload) in Harrisonville, MO… got there almost three hours early but was able to bump the dock anyways… NAP TIME!!! They finished up with us the usual two hours after the appointment time, so we headed north around 2200hrs… made it as far as mm80 on I29 (just north of St. Joseph, MO) to a rest area that’s about as nuts for truck parking as I’ve ever seen! There’s only about a half dozen trucks spots… but like 100 four-wheeler (car) spots… of course at this time of the morning, there’s like NO cars here so the trucks (us included) have taken over the place… I kid you not, there has to be like two dozen trucks all crammed into this little rest area!
Anyways… we’ve got like another 6 hours of driving… have to drop this trailer off in Skyline, NE tomorrow, then bobtail (no trailer) back SOUTH to get to Omaha, NE so my instructors’ home for a couple of days of R&R while he visits with his new baby (due… um.. NOW!). It’ll be nice to kick the feet up for a day or two.
We’ve agreed to stay together for the teaming portion of my training and he’s planning on taking a week’s vacation the third week of October… we’re gonna try to get a few loads heading into New England around the 9th or so so *I* can take a week off… I’ll then have to take a couple-day bus ride back to his house to get back on the truck and start the 50,000 mile teaming portion.
Okay… naps’ worn off..time to hit the bunk!
Posted by admin on Sep 24, 2008 in
Where Am I? Well, we’re still at the yard. Got up this morning, got some good yard coffee and a hot shower around 0700… been hanging out in the Millenium building smokers’ lounge, happy to have some “down-time” and the ability to chat with my sweetie.
We’re heading outta here about 1500hrs local to make our 90 (unload) three hours north.
More to come later..
Posted by admin on Sep 23, 2008 in
Where Am I? Well we headed up (over) to the yard today… Prime’s Corporate headquarters and central terminal. My instructor’s wife is about to go into the hospital to have her baby so he’s trying to work his way home. I’ll hang out at his house for a day or two, then we’re back at it. It’ll be nice to have a day or two of “off-time” to rest and relax a little. Today was rough again… rolled into the yard this morning, drop the load we picked up yesterday in Wellston, OH headed to Ochelata, OK in the drop yard for someone else to finish it up. Then we headed over to the training pad for a while so I could practice my backing for the CDL test coming up. A few mis-steps, but over-all passing so I’m good to go there. Then came the rough part… with nothing else to do (we were waiting for another load coming into the yard that would get us closer to the intstructors house), we were forced to take a couple hour nap… I just don’t know how much more of this I can take, I tell ya! VBG
So once we rousted from our late afternoon siesta, my instructor took me to a local place called Lambert’s Cafe. For those of us from the Northeast, think down-home southern-style cooking / eating. Really neat place where they literally throw the hot rolls at you and another guy follows around with a molasses can to pour on that roll…good stuff!!
The soda is brought by the gallon, and so is the coffee… I made the mistake of ordering both… had an awesome salt-cured ham steak with baked potato and baked beans… what’s kinda neat about this place is there’s about a half dozen “sides” waitresses / waitors wandering around with things like fried potatos, ochra, and various other “side dishes”. What was also cool is that the meal is served in this ginormous frying pan…had to be a 12″ across and they just pile everything in.
Had a good laugh about half-way through dinner… apparently one of the other customers had made the comment to our waitress about having to need a wheelchair to roll his butt out…well surer than shit, she went and got him a real wheelchair to roll him out!!! The place was busting up laughing. Even though I think I could have used one myself… I refrained this time! LOL
We roll out first thing in the morning headed to Hendersonvill, MO working our way to Omaha, NE where the instructor lives… I’ll keep ya posted during my “mini-vacation”.
Posted by admin on Sep 22, 2008 in
Where Am I? Picture if you will; you’re awoken by the alarm clock and it’s oh-dark-thirty in the morning. You shuffle off to the bathroom and then grab some coffee and drive to work. You get to work, check email or shuffle some papers around… then you take a TWO HOUR NAP!
After a couple hours, someone comes along and knocks on your cube, telling you you’re all set. You get up, wander down the hall to the break room… where you have the option of taking ANOTHER nap until you have more work to do…
Yeah…I am SOOOO loving this job! Not to sound mean… but I hope all my Geiger crew is enjoying thier blue cubes this Monday morning… I just watched the sunrise in Milton, WV after getting my nap in this morning! Yeah…it’s rough out here!