Hello everyone:
It's been a week since my last post. I have been running as a team for the last week with a guy I went to school with for the last week and we have been running pretty much non-stop. I barely get any sleep and it finally caught up to us yesterday. I slept for 16 hours straight. We picked up our last load in Georgia 10 hours early and decided to take the time to recoup from the long hard loads we have been running.
I have got to say that CR England has exceeded my expectations by 10 fold. I was talking to my driver manager (DM) last week and I happened to mention about how dirty the truck was and that I spent hours cleaning it. I also mentioned that I took a few days to get the truck as it was in California. My DM was on vacation when all this happened. So he gave me travel pay of $150 and a cleaning fee of $50. Can you believe it? I wasn't really expecting it, but how nice it is to know that they are willing to go the extra distance for you. Every problem I have had has been solved within minutes. I've missed fuel stops and sent in a call on the QualCom and twice they sent me to the Truck Stop I was sitting at. If I have any issues at night, after hours handles it promptly.
Remember last week when I was talking about how I got sent to the wrong place for a pickup in Kent WA.? They paid me 175 deadhead miles for that. I have a great DM and it will be sad to lose him when I leave the Q-Fleet. I hope I get another great Dm. maybe I'll just have to stay in Q-Fleet (hahaha) NOT. Well, sometime next week I will be going back to solo driving as I find it way to hard to sleep while someone else is driving. Besides, I run hard and I am some what of a perfectionist so it would be hard for me to find someone that I would be compatible with.
I wanted to say thanks to all of you that Email me and make comments here on the blog. It helps to know that you are out there reading this.
1 "General" post on 7/30/2005
The Good Folks At CR England
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Posted on Sat, Jul 30 2005 @ 11:33 AM [PST]
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