Estes | Why are we so called HIRING

Wait a minute let me write that down!...... ok call central and tell them I'll wait........

Hey that's pretty tricky, ain't that called reverse psychology or something?....:clap:

Yep that'll putcha 1st in line to go from Charlotte to Aberdeen back to the 010 bench then to the 017 bench back to 019 then back to 010. By that time central can't figure out what time you started. Then you grab the Jacksonville and put yourself out of arms reach of the Carolina shuffle.:clap:
 
Yep that'll putcha 1st in line to go from Charlotte to Aberdeen back to the 010 bench then to the 017 bench back to 019 then back to 010. By that time central can't figure out what time you started. Then you grab the Jacksonville and put yourself out of arms reach of the Carolina shuffle.:clap:

:biglaugh:ain't no doubt....

I got my run cut a couple of weeks ago, so I'm trying to get back used to the board after 9 1/2 years on bid runs.
Ain't much changed. This past week I was glad to see they moved the 041 bunkroom out of the big terminal, man what a relief.
That old basement bunkroom they used to have us in was a bummer.
So look for me out there, I'll be the one wearing the hat that says "Give me a hook!!"....:biglaugh:
 
well well KD and TBB on the board. sounds like Estes wanted some real drivers out there to show these boys how to git-r-done :TR10driving03::biglaugh::biglaugh:. sorry to hear about that run KD !!! hope the miles are plenty for ya. man Nashville was DEAD last thursday night/ friday morning. kinda spooky :shift:
 
:biglaugh:ain't no doubt....

I got my run cut a couple of weeks ago, so I'm trying to get back used to the board after 9 1/2 years on bid runs.
Ain't much changed. This past week I was glad to see they moved the 041 bunkroom out of the big terminal, man what a relief.
That old basement bunkroom they used to have us in was a bummer.
So look for me out there, I'll be the one wearing the hat that says "Give me a hook!!"....:biglaugh:

Stayed in that Hiton Towers at 041 basement for 2 years and 8 months,KD.It was no palace,that's for sure.Only stayed at the other one for a year.We thought we were moving up to the eastside,Jefferson style.


well well KD and TBB on the board. sounds like Estes wanted some real drivers out there to show these boys how to git-r-done :TR10driving03::biglaugh::biglaugh:. sorry to hear about that run KD !!! hope the miles are plenty for ya. man Nashville was DEAD last thursday night/ friday morning. kinda spooky :shift:

Seems like everyone has been down on this side BB.On vacation last week.Don't know if it picked up or not.Have to get with the guys tonight and see what it did.
 
well well KD and TBB on the board. sounds like Estes wanted some real drivers out there to show these boys how to git-r-done :TR10driving03::biglaugh::biglaugh:. sorry to hear about that run KD !!! hope the miles are plenty for ya. man Nashville was DEAD last thursday night/ friday morning. kinda spooky :shift:

Yea well ya know that's the way it goes sometimes, I figure something will give before to long and a couple of months on the board ain't gonna kill me.
I did it before I can do it again. Kinda nice in a way going up and down roads I ain't been on in a while.:shift:
But I got enough fuzz to nail something down pretty quick later on.

I came out from break at 037 to your house last week BB and took my break in the All American. Nice folks out there at your barn, they turned me out on my rest to Columbia and then I got me a Memphis from there. Pretty good lick I reckon.
 
Seems like everyone has been down on this side BB.On vacation last week.Don't know if it picked up or not.Have to get with the guys tonight and see what it did.

Well week before last the boys I talked to up north were a little slow and I was south and west gettin good miles and hooks, then last week the boys up north were moving good and south was a bit slack so who knows about this week.
 
Well week before last the boys I talked to up north were a little slow and I was south and west gettin good miles and hooks, then last week the boys up north were moving good and south was a bit slack so who knows about this week.

Sounds like a typical north-south flow.That's good.You want it that way.North-South freight flows,helps the East-West.Thanks KD.
 
I've been doing good on the east west ......sometimes :biglaugh:

Where you run out of BB,if you get on the east coast,you really should have no problem getting back west.Especially from Harrisburg,West Sex or even Chicopee,Mass.Our teams pull a lot of KC out of Chicopee and West Sex.
 
Where you run out of BB,if you get on the east coast,you really should have no problem getting back west.Especially from Harrisburg,West Sex or even Chicopee,Mass.Our teams pull a lot of KC out of Chicopee and West Sex.

You'll never get a KC out of our barn. They took our StL away from us and we load that through WMX now. Unless we somehow manage to load a direct KCM. Come to think of it, I think our kcm goes through IND now. We don't get much west bound break freight. Most of the terminals load their own WMX meets.

Always wondered how many of you fellas make it through HAR. Supposedy were moving more freight across our dock these days than either WMX, Gbo, or Cha.
 
Where you run out of BB,if you get on the east coast,you really should have no problem getting back west.Especially from Harrisburg,West Sex or even Chicopee,Mass.Our teams pull a lot of KC out of Chicopee and West Sex.

I'm outta Kansas city 164. 1/2 of the extra board [yes just two of us] used to be always west. Denver and beyond now i would have better luck growing a third arm than getting a west load. I do OK just hanging around the middle of the country. but I know when the snow starts up,, west is where I'll be ... funny how that works. [kinda pisses me off really]
not good enough to run when the weathers nice but when they [dispatch] need some fool to chain up there i will be.
I wonder if these contractors will git-r-done over Vail this winter ? :TR10driving03: I know the answer.... no it will be me :shift: but thats OK its my job
 
I'm outta Kansas city 164. 1/2 of the extra board [yes just two of us] used to be always west. Denver and beyond now i would have better luck growing a third arm than getting a west load. I do OK just hanging around the middle of the country. but I know when the snow starts up,, west is where I'll be ... funny how that works. [kinda pisses me off really]
not good enough to run when the weathers nice but when they [dispatch] need some fool to chain up there i will be.
I wonder if these contractors will git-r-done over Vail this winter ? :TR10driving03: I know the answer.... no it will be me :shift: but thats OK its my job

You got more heart then I got, the Contractors can have it. Hell I like sittin home a couple nights a week, the new thing is go out come back and sit home for a day or two.
We keep them Contractors rollin though!!!! I know its good for the Company right.
 
Sleep in day cab!

....out of the hotel in Chicago after sitting there for 20 hours.

At least you got a hotel. Dispatched to NJ - didn't have a clue I was there, ""no room at the innn"", deal.

First and last time tried. Rookie's accept that ... road dogs don't.
 
well some contractors are ok i guess cheap labor but....... we may be a little overboard on them. if contractors are running more and better miles than your company drivers. WATCH OUT problems will be a-comming.
Gotta take care of your boys and ladies period.
if operating ratios and cost per mile are up then lower them !!!!
just throwing cheap labor at the problem is not the fix. start cracking heads. cost per mile maybe down but service takes a hit with contractors.... has too. we care about service ..
contractors don't why should they ??
 
gotta pick your squeaks. too squeak or not to squeak ....[blah,blah]..... [yuck] lol
 
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