It burns, I have enjoyed the work behind driving. That is, I have enjoyed the additional work needed to have loads processed. I started as a new driver. Getting preloaded trailers. This is nice but you have to wait until the trailers are loaded for you. There loaded and ready for you but others. This is done only after the live loads are processed. Drivers pull in to Glass plants and crane operators load the trailers and the drivers tarp the loads and they're off to the races. It's not hard work. BUT when it's hot. It makes the work so much harder. Breathing in the heat, well for a big boy is harder than it is sitting in a truck cab with the air running. Each breath is just supper headed air that does little to help you move faster. It makes simple work so much harder than it really has to be. Drinking water only helps a little. I actually almost drink too much water and almost got sick. But when it’s nice out the work is...
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Crossing America
I say that I am having fun? Well I am in the momments that I am driving. So when I am not my mind travels into the future, like where is this job really taking me? Then into the past as I ask am I running away from something just as much as I am running to a better income? Well, when I am alone I process thoughts. Well, I'm alone for days at a time and I process so many thoughts. Such as "is this enough work to make me happy?" Well, I am happy but I not only miss my little girl but I must want to be missed and welcomed home. I will say this, I am able to influence my daughter more with the emails then I did when I was home. I have her attention when she reads my emails and she is able to share with me her feelings about her drawings and her processes is drawings and the technologies she desires to have to draw her creations with. In the past week alove she has gone to wanting her laptop fixed, her iPad fixed, a new drawing tabl...
Hillary was awakened by not just noise but a scratching sound. A scratching that sounded busy and desperate. The sound was coming from the window. As she looked through the window she was sure it wasn't the rain making the noise. So she pulled back the blinds to find a mouse on the outside standing up and scratching continuously in an attempt to escape the storm. The mouse looks so small and harmless. Hillary lifted the window slowly. The mouse almost fell into the room. It landed on the pile of clothes Hillary's mother asked her to bring downstairs..
Ok. More training
OMG. More training today. I get to spend time in a glass factory. Although redundant to Little Rock training my trainer and I did help a guy clean up his mess after dropping his load of special order glass all over the looping exit ramp. So I am going to pay close attention to detail
So much
Maverick has to have the most intense, in-depth, complete and longest training available to new truck drivers. I'm still at least 10 days out from running on my own. I have to finish classes in Little Rock and then work a week or more in a glass factory. Is it worth it k me my money? Stay tuned!
Today I honor Speedy
Speedy, my trainer for driving, backing the rig, PeopleNet communication, and time management for learning everything I need to know to drive for Maverick Transportation. He's been around the world many times as a soldier and I was honored to listen to his stories this Memorial Day weekend. He willingly shared little parts of his life that seemed exciting and amazing. He shared a bit of the history that laid around us as we drove through the South East of America. Pilot Mount or as I know it as Mt.Pilot the fictitious home town of Andy and Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith show and the West Virginia town of Point Pleasant , home of the Moth Man.
Driving Spirit
Two of my days of driving behind the wheel were over 550 miles. After driving over 1000 miles in two days I put in my first 630 or more miles in for one day. It was this Friday and I could have fallen into poor self-talk of victimhood because I didn't get paid for the miles. I got training pay. And I was tired and hungry at the end of the trip, But you know what? I did know how hard it was in the first place and I didn't I could come out on the other side of so many miles feeling fine. I now know I can drive the miles I want without falling over. In all truth, I zoned out for just a little bit while driving. I was somewhere else in my stupid little head and not paying attention to the road. But I was thinking about how things could be for me on the road. I was thinking about how things could be better for me with more money in my pocket. I was thinking about what I could get my little girl so she would forgive me for being go...