Well, it's been awhile since the last time I've been on this page an post something. Since i have some time on my hands, why not post something to let you all know i'm still alive an kicking. A lot things an events have taken place in my life. Some was good an some was bad, but i'm still here. The last time i was on here.
The last time i was on here i was getting ready to go to CDL school for swift transportation. That was a very fun an exciting time in my life. I learn a lot of new things, visit some really cool places an met some cool people who i became friends with, and still talk to this very day. My Swift driving career was cut short, because while i was out having the time of my life. Getting myself together to move forward in my life. Things back at home began to get bad an only head south from there. After, i tested out for Swift an they gave me a bus ticket to head home. I didn't return back to them. Because that feeling of knowing things at home isn't all sunny days an roses. I made the decision to go drive local so, i can be close to home an address the problems. I began my local career driving for a man name Eugene Gravois. He was into the local farming business an haul sugarcane to the mills. I had a interest in that for a long time. I think my interest in that type of work started when i was a little kid. I used to sit an watch the farmers get to harvest the fields of cane during the fall an winter seasons. The smell of burning fields an the sound of tractors rumbling . Is something i will ever forget. Then the sight of the trucks going from the fields to the mill an back. Really got hook on it. They way they use to cut an load the trucks have change. Hell, even the cane you may see if you pass far south in southern Louisiana have change. The crop you see today an the crop i seen when i was little is different. The cane crop you see now, is an hybrate crop. We been having some brutal winters, and that crop doesn't holds up well in that type of cold. Also throw in the factor that they start to harvest during the peak of hurricane season, so the weather plays a huge roll in how much you will profit during the harvest season.
I learn a lot driving for that guy. He was real old school driver. I learn a lot from the Mexican drivers he had working for him as well. The truck that was assign to be was an 2000 International eagle 9900i 10spd eaton fuller transmission. I learn to love that truck. It though a lot of stuff, like shift by watching the rpm's because the speedometer didn't work at all. I learn how to float gears on that truck. That was the best feeling, when i learn how to float through the gears. Than, everything else seems much much easier for me. I learn how to drive down really small roads. I learn how to drive on muddy roads. I felt like what i learn at that job, made me a much better driver. I was so happy an excited at what i learn there. I went back to due another season. Now, i had the chance to put what i learn my first season to the test. I was doing so, good that my boss didn't even say anything to me at all, Until, my trailer needed a new tire. He was like" I'm proud of you, your doing a good job an you came a long nicely. Now, keep up the good work". That really made my day. At, the same time i knew this was going to come to an end real soon. I had filled out an app to go drive for a tanker company, and they came calling halfway through the season. In which i answer the called, and began my career as a tanker yanker lol. That was really cool to. Learn an took in a lot of info, but i started to get some bad vibes about the company while i was there. They was taking way more new driver, than they had trainers to train them. Then, i heard they was about to lose a really big contract. So, i was like. Time to find me something else. I left them to find me something else to do. I was even debating into move to California. I still haven't come to terms with that yet.
I have for the moment put that on the back burner. I have a really good friend that live in California. He told whenever i made up my to come out west. I can. That's one of my guys i became friends with while i was in CDL training at Swift. I still have faith i can find something local. If not, than i will return to OTR for a while. I have a few companies already line up now but, i just want to give driving locally one more shot. I've going through some other things a well, an i will shine some light on that pretty soon.
