At the new job

I finally got fed up with living the life of a big company driver and staying out on the road for months at a time, with only 2-3 days off. So after meeting up with my buddy Derek who works for a small company here in Ohio at a Pilot Travel Center in Boonville, MO one Saturday, and finding out they were hiring I decided to put in an application, and after getting a load to Ohio I went in for an interview and got the job.

Navajo wasn't able to bring me directly back to Denver so I relayed a load to AR then picked up a load going to Cheyenne, WY which I dropped off at the yard in Denver and turned my truck in.
I caught a midnight flight out of Denver which went to Detroit and connected in Akron, which I got for $100.00 and I was back Friday morning and drove straight down to my new company and got into my truck, a 2004 Peterbilt 379 with a 475 CAT. It's a big beautiful, powerful machine, I love it!




















This is a great job, home 2-3 days a week and I still get at least 3,000 miles a week, .37 cpm and plenty of benefits and bonus programs. They wash and service the trucks every week, they polish the trucks with a high speed buffer and everything. After 9 years on the road, it feels great to work for a small company who really cares about the drivers who take care of them.

It allows me to do what I love, which is drive OTR, but still have plenty of time at home so I don't get burned out on trucking like I was before because I had to be gone for such long periods at a time. It's a well established, debt free company which has been in business for around 30 years, with a good customer base, so it's not like the last small company I worked for which relied solely on brokers and finding loads on the web.