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Sure didn't feel that way when I caught myself in a residential neighborhood on my way to Walmart this morning. Hesitated too long when making the choice to use the entrance I came up on or catch the next one. Turns out there wasn't a next one. Had to turn around in a neighborhood. Wasn't too...

First delivery done. Of coarse there was an issue with the paper work from the shipper. We got loaded and upon checking the lid before we left we realized our "aircraft parts" were really "dried egg whites". Awesome. Didn't help that the girl we were dealing with was also new, however, she was...

We will get there. The plan is for me to do this one today. She will do one on her own tomorrow. That way we both will experiance two loads and be able to help the other if needed. Gps and navigation is still a challenge alone. I'd rather miss out on money and have help then mess up alone. Might...

Headed to our first pick up. Fingers crossed

Nothing makes you feel more like a man when you storm off to your bunk 1 foot away

Update from yesterday: By the time the inspection was finished expediters was closed. The paperwork needed to be sent to fedex to get signed off on I assume. We went to a Loves across the street, made some food and got our showers in. Showers are $11 I think and they don't mind or care if you...

Lmao, I will meet you half way and say all this paper work and inspections should have been squared away. Inspector said truck looks brand new. So that's a sigh of relief. I imagine that is a communication error between the recruiter and the maintenance/make sure everything is good to go...

Couldn't agree with you more. When you first start out you find yourself thinking (me personally at least) "man, I don't wanna spend weeks in a truck with someone I don't know" but for most people (I could possibly be included in this) that stress would have been better than this stress. But...

I'll snap one the next time I get out. We left expeditors and ran to Walmart, got groceries, sent our raodside inspection sheet to FedEx via the scanner we got from expeditors (for free), and then got a call from them saying the truck was due for dot inspection and had to be completed before we...

Yes they do. They advised against ferrets and rabbits since apparently Canada doesn't allow them? Something like that, lol.

Our chat this morning went pretty good. We all decided that it would be better for us to start in a "surface truck" which is the one we drove down. They also said not to worry about the 600 miles we drove for no reason. I offered to pay it back because I think that's the right thing to do and...

My wife is awesome. We have been through a lot in the 11 years we have been together and even the bad times don't seem so bad when your married to your best friend. I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to pursue a career where we can spend time together. I will say this, expediters has...

I hope so. How this is going at this point. My wife and I are interested in white glove (you need a lift gate and reefer for this). I agreed to being out in a white glove capable truck if I could have some time to get comfortable taking regular loads (without having to worry about temps, hazmat...

Comments like these are what makes it easier for me. I'll be the first to admit, I have some serious anxiety issues. Whole other batch of today when we arrived at expeditors today. I'll elaborate more when I have the brain capacity. How many miles on a truck is too many?

Didn't realize my last post didn't have everything. Probably rambling at this point but meh. After the tires got replaced. We jump on the interstate and the steering wheel gets to shaking something fierce at about 45 mph. I throw on the 4 ways and get off at the next next (possible mistake...

Thank you for the kind words. Last night was ...irritating. After our steer tire replacement they told us to get the lug nuts re torqued after 250ish miles. However this became very difficult as truck stops appeared to be having one hell of a Black Friday sale (busier than hell) and they were...

I guess we'll find out as we go. We don't know enough yet to call anything a scam (we are responsible for our own taxes). I hope it turns out ok since we have a lot of time invested in this a burned through most of our savings doing so. Picked up our temp truck today. Front steer tires were in...

Not a clue. I'm gonna give my recruiter a call on Monday and see if there is anything else

First round of fine print. Apparently we are responsible for "occupation insurance" (something like workmans comp?). $40 a week per person. So $320 a month I didn't expect. Hopefully that's all.

I also feel that we are being treated well. You can read so many bad things on line and so many people having bad experiences it always puts me on edge, kinda like waiting for the fine print to pop up. Even the owner operators we spoke with at class said we were getting a pretty good deal...