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Rhode Island is pretty much one big "hometown" really.

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Tuesday Dec 12, 2006

Dec 12, 2006
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I don't really have a whole lot to report. I'm working a lot and don't expect to go home again before the Christmas weekend. Which is fine since I don't really give much of a shit about Christmas anyhow. Did all my shopping already... which consisted of gifts for two nieces and a birthday present for my mother (who is unfortunate enough to have her birthday on December 25th). I got her $200 worth of awesome food from Omaha Steaks.

Road rage is running rampant. You people need to chill the fuck out on the highway. I was telling my mother a story about a sub-compact car who came whizzing by me on the right with his horn held down and middle finger extended in my direction. This was in Connecticut on I-84. I was in the far left lane (ordinarily not legal for big trucks when there are 3 or more lanes in each direction)... but I was approaching a left-exit that I needed to take. I was traveling the speed limit. In fact, I was absolutely 100% doing everything right. Yet somehow that person in the tiny car weighing about 77,000 less than me felt compelled to cut me off and show their displeasure with me for... my ability to drive like a professional.

Yeah. Christmas cheer and all. Just another reason I am an atheist. Too much hypocrisy going on among "believers."
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dr_lizardo:
Well, those names have been flitting about whole while I've been in school. There's a story of one guy who wanted schneider but they wouldn't take him becasue he had a felony conviction, so he went with Werner I think. He had a good run for Coca Cola through Werner and at some point schneider started calling him and he told them to screw off, as Werner had been good to him. I THINK JB hunt wants 90 days of experience, and I've never heard much of anything about us express.
Dec 12, 2006
dr_lizardo:
I looked at US Express. According to their website their trucks are all autostick. I like the idea of having an easy to drive truck, but I think that overall for my career it would be best to have experience driving your basic ten speed. One of the instructors at Nettts is in the habit of pointing out that people who go to work for TransAm tend to stay there, but I'm inclined to suspect that they do so because they get spoiled driving trucks with automatic trasmissions.

From what I can tell most of the larger companies tend to be within a cent per mile of each other for beginning grads. Swift is offering 36cpm for northeast regional and 26cpm otr jumping up to 32cpm after 6 months, 2cpm ahead of US Express oops Xpress, assuming i have all the up to date accurate info.

I suspect that half of how good your company is comes down to your dispatcher anyway, and that's basically a spin on the roulette wheel. I seem to recall the Werner rep saying you could change driver managers if the one you've got isn't working well for you, but I don't know how widely such things are practiced, as opposed to just changing companies.

I don't know if ignorance is always bliss, but eventually you've just got to pick something and go.
Dec 13, 2006

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