So yes there are two pictures I've included with this post. One picture is just a face shot of myself. I literally typed "facial of myself" and then went "no that doesn't sound good on here." LOL Yup, you know what's on my mind I bet :P.
The other picture is basically a picture showing out the front of my truck where I'm parked and trucks keep coming in and getting in a long line waiting for fuel. This pilot truck stop out here in New York has quite a bit of parking, but its all congested together so if you're parked where there's a constant line of trucks, you're kind of screwed. So I found a spot where when I do get a clear getaway, and can pull out, I will have a straight shot to the exit. I will just pull straight out and not have to pull out and turn. I know I have to leave very soon because it's getting later and I know the later it gets, the more congested this place will get and it'll be even harder to leave.
I picked up my current load from the BJ's Wholesale Warehouse Distribution in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and I'm delivering at a Bj's wholesale store in Rochester New York. I picked the load up last night, and the delivery is for midnight tonight, so I picked up the load, and parked for the night, and then like 9AM this morning I took off, drove about half way, stopped at this pilot. Ate, used the showers, and then came back out to the truck. Got online because sadly I'm still a online college student and today is day one of my new class and so I had to get online and do a couple of posts.
So now that those are out of the way, and its still clear traffic wise here in this truck stop parking lot, I know I'll be hitting the road soon. There was a little bit of snow today, but not too much. Right now it's not snowing at all. The other day when I came from Ohio back through PA towards Jersey, I was delayed pretty bad with freezing rain. I could see just fine and the road wasn't slick, but there were a few accidents, and there were cars driving 20 in a 60 mph zone, with me behind them thinking "wtf man?!" Then on top of that, my mirror heater wasn't working on my right side mirror. My left mirror was thawed, but my right mirror kept developing ice about one inch thick. I had to keep stopping at emergency stopping pull offs and clearing off the ice because I literally could not see.
Currently still a company driver for Schneider. I love my job, but I'll admit, I've thought a lot the past few months about wanting to be able to make more for what I do. I don't necessarily want to leave schneider. What I really want is to go the truck ownership route because the money wise you can do so much better. Course, the only issue is I mention it at home or in text about how I'm really not happy staying as a company driver because I have never liked "getting dispatched," and I get blown off or ignored. What I want is to some day be dispatching myself. Still be with schneider, just be lease purchasing my truck and within a year or so, owning it, and dispatching my own loads. They have a couple options. You can be dispatched, basically them saying "here's a load assignment," which you run what they give you. You can dispatch yourself, where you basically go on the computer and look at all the loads around the area you are in or will be in, and you assign yourself what loads you want. You can get paid by mileage, or get paid per load. From all the lease drivers, or owner operators that were previously lease that I have talked to, paid per load and assigning yourself is definitely the way to go. I've not heard one bad thing about going that route through schneider. a few even were like "here dude this is my pay stub" and they showed me how they had a paycheck in a week of over $2,000. So, yes I'd like to go that route. I tried to before but I was sort of, over ruled by the wife and CPA we work with. So, since I didn't have her support, I waited. But it's been a while since then and we talked about how we'd "re-discuss" in like 6 months or so, and yet here we are, I try, and I'm ignored, so I figure oh well, I'll stay where I'm at, doing what i'm doing, making what I'm making and just make the most of it.
That's how it is with us all isn't it? Just basically trying to make ends meet, and trying to stay positive about things even when you might not be happy? And don't get me wrong, it's not an "i'm unhappy with my job". It's an "i'm unhappy with just being a company driver, not having control over where I go, and making paychecks that I know could definitely be higher" type of happy. Buuuut, I can't change it without her support, so again, I will suck it up and just make the most of it.
Anyway, I gotta hit the road and get going, so I'll leave you all with that. Hope you all are doing well and talk more soon. :)
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