We Have Got Job's

After what seemed to be a month of Sundays, Gordon Trucking called us and gave us the thumbs up for employment. We felt like that kid in the catsup commercial, desperately waiting for the good's to pour all over his juicy cheese burger. Anticipation is making me wait! Now we are off on a new adventure. 28 days on the road training. Than we will be re-united and assigned a truck. The big question from the recruiter was “Do you mind being trained with a smoker?” Bummer, hope I don’t start smoking again. I should be fine. Joy said “Hell yes I mind!” I think I have the perfect CB handle for Joy “M-80” like the fire cracker that she is. I was thinking that I would use my on-line gaming handle "Weapon X" Joy said to me that those handles sound very destructive.

Graduation and no Job's for bad boy's

Joy and I graduated yesterday, September 15 2006. From the get go we were told that there are plenty of job's out there for the starving drivers. The real truth is here and now. 19 years ago I was a bad, bad boy. Yep, I tried to out run the law on my 1985 GS750-E Suzuki. As a new professional driver I am sad to tell this story, and if the log truck driver that was responsible for that gnarly back up in 1988 on Hyw. 49 is reading this, I'm sorry. So there I was, sitting at a crawl behind 12 cars. I waited until it was safe before letting my supper bike loose. Flying through the gears on a straight in the turn lane, I had no idea that a CHP officer was kicking back in the front row. So long story short, I was convicted of, yes you guessed it speeding. Oh, it gets better, reckless driving, and fleeing to elude. Fleeing to elude is worse than murder in the trucking world. Well next to transportation on a controlled substance. Eluding is bad.... really BAD! I would have never imagined that by being truthfull with my future employers would limit our chances of getting OTR job's. We think that Gordon Trucking will call us on Monday to offer a team job to us. They were not going to at first, but wanted to meet with us before pushing us to the way side. I'm happy that I was not what they might have thought a Duke might have looked like from Hazard County.... I think we passed the sniff test.