Estes | Let the Bids begin

[steercrazee]

It's that time of the year again. Finally a chance to get a bid run and be on a regular schedule. A few runs have been cancelled and a few added. Good luck to everyone and i hope you get at least one of your picks.

 

[Songremainsthesame]

We’ve only got around 6 runs that are worth a damn, and I’m low man on the totem pole. It’s going to be many years before I get off the extraboard.

 

[seabreeze]

We’ve only got around 6 runs that are worth a damn, and I’m low man on the totem pole. It’s going to be many years before I get off the extraboard.

Do you miss OD?

 

[steercrazee]

We’ve only got around 6 runs that are worth a damn, and I’m low man on the totem pole. It’s going to be many years before I get off the extraboard.

Its tough at smaller terminals

 

[Songremainsthesame]

Do you miss OD?

Seeing as how I’d be coming up on 11 years with them and probably on a decent bid by now I’d say yes, I do miss them. Estes is a good place to work but I kick myself in the ass frequently for giving up seniority.

 

[seabreeze]

ioritynSeeing as how I’d be coming up on 11 years with them and probably on a decent bid by now I’d say yes, I do miss them. Estes is a good place to work but I kick myself in the ass frequently for giving up seniority.

Seniority is why I didn't give going back to work a second thought when PIE folded.

 

[steercrazee]

Some of these older drivers here will probably die in the truck before they leave. One driver is 71 years old. It's either in their blood or they are so far in debt they can never leave. Who knows?

 

[Triplex]

Some of these older drivers here will probably die in the truck before they leave. One driver is 71 years old. It's either in their blood or they are so far in debt they can never leave. Who knows?

Some people enjoy what they do and like being productive. Not for everyone but each to his own, no?

 

[Niteshift3]

Some of these older drivers here will probably die in the truck before they leave. One driver is 71 years old. It's either in their blood or they are so far in debt they can never leave. Who knows?

I’ve known quite a few like that, steercrazee, or, they have an exwife in their past who, thru the divorce decree, they get half of the retirement of the driver. So they’ll work til they drop just to make sure she gets nothing.

 

[Songremainsthesame]

Some people enjoy what they do and like being productive. Not for everyone but each to his own, no?

I could certainly find more ways to be productive than to work if I could afford retirement.

 

[seabreeze]

Some of these older drivers here will probably die in the truck before they leave. One driver is 71 years old. It's either in their blood or they are so far in debt they can never leave. Who knows?

PIE had a Jax driver in his mid-70s who was a millionaire.
His wife retired from the phone company with a good retirement, and no children.
They owned an 800-acre working farm in Ga.
He would run an Orlando turn every 8 hrs, you could set your watch by him, and never marked off or missed a trip.
He was involved in 2 fatal accidents, and the company and union got him to retire or be fired.
He would only drive a 10 or 15-year-old clunker to work.
The man just loved to work, you would not meet a nicer guy.

 

[Rounding3rd]

Nothing wrong with being independent!

 

[Triplex]

<snip> you would not meet a nicer guy.

Easy to say because you haven't met me yet.

 

[drummerforhire]

We’ve got a road driver at my barn. 77 years old. No plans to retire. He says he just loves driving a truck.

 

[Triplex]

We’ve got a road driver at my barn. 77 years old. No plans to retire. He says he just loves driving a truck.

I know a guy who was still driving road at 81 and still loving it.

 

[Rounding3rd]

Met a O/O once was in his 80's said only was on 1 medicine and where else is he going to make $1,000 dollars a week?

 

[Songremainsthesame]

We’ve got a road driver at my barn. 77 years old. No plans to retire. He says he just loves driving a truck.

My dad had to come off the road at 76 due to health issues. He didn’t make it a year.

 

[Songremainsthesame]

PIE had a Jax driver in his mid-70s who was a millionaire.
His wife retired from the phone company with a good retirement, and no children.
They owned an 800-acre working farm in Ga.
He would run an Orlando turn every 8 hrs, you could set your watch by him, and never marked off or missed a trip.
He was involved in 2 fatal accidents, and the company and union got him to retire or be fired.
He would only drive a 10 or 15-year-old clunker to work.
The man just loved to work, you would not meet a nicer guy.

Between running every 8 hours and a 700 acre farm, did the man ever sleep?

 

[seabreeze]

Between running every 8 hours and a 700 acre farm, did the man ever sleep?

He didn't run the farm, he had others in charge of that.
I think the farm was near Soperton Ga.

 

[Songremainsthesame]

He didn't run the farm, he had others in charge of that.
I think the farm was near Soperton Ga.

Back then how long did it take to turn Orlando out of Jax?