jormagund

I'm pretty strapped for cash right now, but if you still have it in a month or so I'd be interested.

Just my cdl and a notebook. They won't have a trainer available until several days after orientation, so I'll be coming back home. It will actually be convenient that my trainer will pick me up here so that I shan't have to drive back and forth to syracuse to get my car and/or truck. Werner trucking sent a list of stuff to bring when you went to their orientation that you would need to have on the road, and I would imagine that the swift duffle bag content recommendations will be similar. Coat, week's worth of underwear, toothbrush, that sort of thing. No firearms, though, at least if you go with Werner. Bummer. And I so wanted to bring my AK. . .

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.

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.

This girl is rad. I don't know what to think. We have SOOOO much in common it is weird. We finish each others sentences and stuff.
We just talked on the phone for 2 hours.

I NEVER TALK TO GIRLS ON THE PHONE FOR 2 HOURS at a time!!!

Hey, I daresay I would probably not consider rural mississippi " romantic", although I would not be averse to seeing it, to have seen it. You were actually the one to come up with the word romantic after I likened setting off in a big rig to setting off in a sailing ship in the 18th or 19th centuries, to go off and see the world.

Actually there is a mystique in a lot of places. I might be curious to see Avalon, Mississippi, where Mississippi John Hurt was from. I am reminded of that song about the train called the City of New Orleans. I hope I don't ever get bored seeing new places.

I like both revolvers and self-loaders. A long barrelled revolver lends itself to exaggerated perspective photographs however.

Well, take care.

save the buraeucrats-wahoooie-love that DMV-

hope you don't leave, but I hear you-

nice win by Navy-but Army finally looked good, which made me feel better about the loss-

hang in here,

Jim/Oldsarge

Yeah, my reasons for staying here have gotten progressively smaller, so I know what you mean. It's too bad you never made an sgpvd event, you might've had more incentive to stay.

When I go, I want all my friends to put something in my coffin. I don't want anything fancy.

But if I don't go off to where-ever (if there is a where-ever) prepared, my boy scout leader would come back from his grave and kick my ass. Did that make any sense?

That is why there better be a can of PBR and a hundred dollar bill in my coffin. Who knows, maybe there is poker in the afterlife??!!?!?

PS - i am pretty jaded on religion as well. i am a scientist. prove to me there is something out there and i might start believing, until then, I have ideas....

I was just doing some random driving today, and got held up by a couple of bulls that had gotten out of their enclosure and were out in the road. The police and the bulls' owners were trying to herd them back where they belonged, and the bulls eventually just decided to cooperate.

Sorry I missed you over the weekend dear...was out of state for thanksgiving but give me a ring again soon so we can yak!

I have a hard time with "trucker bombs"-I suspect. it's dope couriers more likely, not wanting to stop, truckers could always dump a bottle at their next fuel stop-amen to the trash dumpers, used pampers are particularly nice-

I watched the Army-Notre Dame game, man, I don't know how they'll do against Navy-but I can always hope, huh?

Good to hear from you-Happy Thanksgiving-

Go Army-