Friday, March 28, 2008

So ends one chapter....

Well, today was our last day with Schneider. Kinda sad considering just over a year ago I had never even been up close to a semi. Then we got a wild hair up our ass and decided to quit our careers in law enforcement to go tour the country in a truck. What the HELL were we thinking? But you know what? We fell in love with the trucking lifestyle and can't believe we didn't do this sooner.

We have had a great experience with Schneider so I can't say anything bad about them. We have top notch training, we ended up with a practically new truck, they have great facilities throughout the country. The deal breaker was really two things. One was that they didn't allow pets. If you have been keeping up with my posts then you know that we have a friend that has been keeping Bandit, our Blue Heeler, for the last 8 months. And then with this recent break in, we found a puppy locked in the house and we just couldn't give him up. So we have a friend of my mom's keeping him and we named him Bandit. The other thing is the A/C on the truck. It has been in the shop 3 times in the last 2 weeks and they can't get it fixed. I don't know what the problem is, but it just seems ridiculous that they can't find the problem. And with it being in the shop so much, our miles are sucking. So, these two things combined led us to call Prime and now we are going to become lease operators with them. We are scared to death, but we will get good support from them and some of their drivers that we know from Pumpkindriver and Primedriver so I feel that in the end, things will work out.

One good thing about the truck though is that we have been able to set it up for another team that we know to get our truck. Ours was an automatic and they had a manual and were really wanting an automatic so they have already gotten it assigned to them and I think that will work out great for them.

J is on his way home from dropping off the truck. We will be home tonight and then tomorrow we are going to stay with a friend who is going to take us to the bus station on Sunday morning. From there we will head to Springfield,MO to start the next chapter of our lives. Wish us luck!

7 comments:

Tom said...

Good luck, T-Net and J !

Heffard said...

Good luck and keep us posted.
You write my favorite blog!!
Still waiting on somethings to resolve in my life, then I am jumping in.
Looking at Prime and SNI both. (Prime is top choice for my own reasons right now. But, I keep switching, which is frustrating my wife.)

Lour & Grey said...

Good luck guys!

Keep with the blogging - those of us getting starting have learned a lot from your blog ;)

Dr. Zebra said...

Good luck, and enjoy that wonderful, wonderful bus ride.

And it's ok to be scared. In this kind of situation taking a huge step like this, I'd wonder if you were stupid if you weren't at least a bit nervous. ;)

Once you get to Springfield, though, you'll realize in a huge way that this is not Schneider anymore.

-drzebra

Unknown said...

Good luck T-Net and J - as you know it takes balls just to jump into this business. You guys' must be just a bit bigger to make this new jump.

Good luck.

Len Revelle said...

Congrats and best of luck on the move, y'all. I suspect you will be very happy and do well with Prime.

FWIW, I fell back into the LE realm...sorta. I now work for the county's radio shop servicing sheriff radio gear. Days, M-F, no vest!

-lenrev

Scott said...

Good luck. We love you.