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morningstar55ny · Jun 1, 2008

good morning......
wll another weekend of hangin out ..... in a boring place....
im sitting here in a place called.. Sudbury, mass ..... at a pilot.. off i84
there is NO places here to eat.... and this Pilot has 1 shower.... and the bathrooms is just 1 ahh room... no stalls...
iam 1st on the boards here......
and been here since fri nite....... i asked dispatch about if i was to go up from exit 1.. to exit 3 ( which has a walmart n places to eat and other stores..)and then back ..... if i would lose my board posisition.
they r telling me .... they dont know.....
this is flustering....... one dispatch said... if i am on the edge of the boards.... i might .. and then come bk i still might.......
ya know i could scream...... i am scared to move now.
im low on groceries... soo here i sit...... frustrated and scared to move.

nightcreacher · Jun 1, 2008

dont check out of x center,just go do what you have to do,and come back.

hondaking38 · Jun 1, 2008

ya some of the new boards are huge!!!! in vans our problems are were going to swap ya, 4 hours ago you moved your van in the parking lot to get some shade and you didnt get a full 5 hour break after moving the van so your time started on the 16 hour clock when ya moved..

Turtle · Jun 1, 2008

A few things. One, if you need to move, then move. Live your life. If you lose your board position, so what? It's not like you'll never be offered another load again. If you miss a load, then you miss a load. There will be another one. Do you have any idea how many loads you miss out on because you're loaded? OMG, you'd have a heart attack if you knew. It's a crapshoot either way, so live you life. If you need to go to Wal Mart, or a restaurant, or the grocery store, or the movies, then go!

Second, if it's that big a deal, call dispatch and tell than that since you're first out, and since they can't tell you where the board boundaries are, that you want a manual First Out to ensure you don't lose your board position if you move a few miles and come back. If they won't do it, then either go avail-sleeping to keep the board position, or unplug your QC, move, come back, plug the QC back in.

Turtle · Jun 1, 2008

hondaking38 said:
ya some of the new boards are huge!!!! in vans our problems are were going to swap ya, 4 hours ago you moved your van in the parking lot to get some shade and you didnt get a full 5 hour break after moving the van so your time started on the 16 hour clock when ya moved..

That's actually an issue that I'm going to bring up to someone pretty soon. Straight trucks and tractors can move up to 30 minutes without starting their clock, but for a van it's one mile.

morningstar55ny · Jun 1, 2008

Turtle said:
That's actually an issue that I'm going to bring up to someone pretty soon. Straight trucks and tractors can move up to 30 minutes without starting their clock, but for a van it's one mile.

1 mile??? omg..... thats kinda crazy.....

and ummmmm i dont know how to unplug my QC .. LOL ...
but thats an idea.... heh

ok dispatch said...... if i change zip codes it will change my board spot.
well i looked up this ahhhh sudbury place .... im suppose to be on ..... thats showing the board i am on....... u know where it is??????????
its way the hell east of here near boston.....
im like holy crap......... i know i am NOT in or even close enough to sudbury to be on that ziip code...... im off 84 xit 1......
these r the types of things that gives me a headach..... sorry
i knwo i should not let it get to me.......

TeamCaffee · Jun 1, 2008

Wow that practice seems really harsh I am glad we have the freedom to move all over the place and not worry about losing our position in the lineup and also have the ability to refuse as many loads as we want and can still stay number one in board position.
We enjoy the ability while under a load or while waiting for a load to run to the store, the movie or go see an attraction and as long as you stay within the 50 miles of the service center and can make pickup on time you are good to go.
If you have been on the clock for 24 hours you can also take two hours personal time and not lose your position on the board also comes in very handy to take a leisurely shower and eat a meal.

hondaking38 · Jun 1, 2008

were not that advanced at the big cat, maybe soon

morningstar55ny · Jun 1, 2008

hondaking38 said:
were not that advanced at the big cat, maybe soon

. should i hold my breath...... hehe.......

Teamcaffee...... now that sounds the way to go .....

x06col · Jun 1, 2008

Ahh, good ole Beantown. got there Thurs PM, loaded Fri for Texas. "Always" be nuther load?? Maybe. With the restrictions you have seems you should scope the neighborhood before you land.

Tennesseahawk · Jun 1, 2008

If you're on exit 1 on 84, you're in Sturbridge. There are a couple restaurants (some kind of chicken and a Roy Rogers) on the other side of the freeway from where you're at. Suck it up and hang tight for the weekend if you're worried... the Pilot ain't so bad.

Sturbridge is a heckuva drive from Boston, so that leads me to believe the Boston area takes up half of MA. If so, don't worry about losing your spot. Do what Turtle said... disconnect QC and go!

Turtle · Jun 1, 2008

morningstar55ny said:
ok dispatch said...... if i change zip codes it will change my board spot.

Shockingly, they're wrong. You're on the Sudbury board, but you're not in the Sudbury Zip Code, that's for sure. Sudbury is 45 miles northeast of you.

Massachusetts has two boards, Sudbury and West Chesterfield. Actually, it's just Chesterfield, a little bitty nothing in western central Massachusetts. Because the boards have been designed by a lazy IT guru who wants it to be easier to track vehicles by Zip Code boundaries rather than the more logical and sensible (but harder to create and coordinate with the computer and the QC) freight boundaries, we have boards that bear no relationship to freight whatsoever. Because Massachusetts only has two boards, if you plot Sudbury and Chesterfield on a mp, you can see that if you slice the state right down the middle, there's yer two boards.

The slice takes place about 3 or 4 miles to the west of that Pilot, so don't wander off to the west at all and you won't change boards, or board position. But you can go north and east as far as the roads go and you'll still be on the Sudbury board. If the Red Sox were in town you could go to Fenway Park and still be on the Sudbury board.

So live it up, go crazy.

The author of this message assumes no responsibility for anyone losing anything. You must take responsibility for yourself. Some restrictions may apply. Some restrictions always apply. That's what restrictions do, they apply!

morningstar55ny · Jun 1, 2008

ok..... all this sounds great advice and helpful info.....
i unloaded in some god forsaken place called......
warren mass...... and that was west of here..... and did have me on the ahh that chesterfield board..... then i got here..... lol
ok ext 3 is going a lil north east.... towards sudbury ...
ok ty u all....... i may move a lil.....
and i sucked it up all day yesterday ......
i think i could handle roy rodgers today .... i might just go there.... and bk.. i walked to the road from the parking lot...... but did not see it anywhere.....
thought maybe i could walk to it....
which figures.......
will also see where u unplug the qc at ..... cause i have no idea or thought about doing that before. heh

pelgrn · Jun 1, 2008

Relax have some cowder,take a ride to walmart,You'll end up having to dh to V.T or N.H for something going to Laredo mon morning.

Turtle · Jun 1, 2008

morningstar55ny said:
i walked to the road from the parking lot...... but did not see it anywhere.....

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greg334 · Jun 1, 2008

"lazy IT guru"

Well.... yes.... there are a lot of lazy IT people out there doing a lot of damage to things but they ain't guru's - there is no such thing in IT and anyone who says they are, who passes themselves off as one or who let's others say that they are knows less than a 5th grader. Vent of the day over with.

"The author of this message assumes no responsibility for anyone losing anything. You must take responsibility for yourself. Some restrictions may apply. Some restrictions always apply. That's what restrictions do, they apply!"

Ain't that the truth......

Turtle · Jun 1, 2008

Actually, I think a 5th grader would give him a run for his money.

morningstar55ny · Jun 1, 2008

pelgrn said:
Relax have some cowder,take a ride to walmart,You'll end up having to dh to V.T or N.H for something going to Laredo mon morning.

ha...... ya know... now i would LOVE to go to texas.......
i am way past due for a fishing date over there...... heh.....
they have some the best bass lakes there....... wooHOo..
but the only way i will get a load there now .... and with the time frame ..... is one of them pick up fri deliver monday deals....... cause i am a solo driver.
sooo how many of u here drive str8 trucks???