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I recalled a very long time ago in Baltimore I was roadtesting with Keyway or some other outfit there. Anyway there was a dispatcher bent over the desk with a new monochrome computer display. Fancy high tech space age crap for it's day. (Ugh...)
He was talking loud into the phone saying "Driver from here to norfolk its supposed to be 5 hours and 18 minutes why are you a hour late?"
I asked him how do you know? He showed me on the display. The allowed company time from Baltimore to Norfolk is exactly 5.19 in hour/minute.
I laughed and told him add a hour on certain times a day dealing with Richmond-Ashland before that 295 opened. He threw me out after turning purple. How dare I, a pup fresh from school tell him anything? The nerve.
The truck they road tested me on was a old sleeper eagle with about 1.9 million on the odometer. Its Eaton 10 speed was literally a barrel of bolts being rolled inventing a scary noise every few miles. I came out of that thing scared badly, as in teeth chattering shaking scared. Need a 5th of something and a smoke or two to calm down for the drive home. That old tractor did pull to 65 or so but shook and shivered so much its scary. I did however find a sweet spot at 55, apparently where it spent most of those miles.
He was talking loud into the phone saying "Driver from here to norfolk its supposed to be 5 hours and 18 minutes why are you a hour late?"
I asked him how do you know? He showed me on the display. The allowed company time from Baltimore to Norfolk is exactly 5.19 in hour/minute.
I laughed and told him add a hour on certain times a day dealing with Richmond-Ashland before that 295 opened. He threw me out after turning purple. How dare I, a pup fresh from school tell him anything? The nerve.
The truck they road tested me on was a old sleeper eagle with about 1.9 million on the odometer. Its Eaton 10 speed was literally a barrel of bolts being rolled inventing a scary noise every few miles. I came out of that thing scared badly, as in teeth chattering shaking scared. Need a 5th of something and a smoke or two to calm down for the drive home. That old tractor did pull to 65 or so but shook and shivered so much its scary. I did however find a sweet spot at 55, apparently where it spent most of those miles.