I'm done with training!

I know everyone, it's been a long time since I've been able to update you guys but I am here now...

I don't even know where to begin. Training was a lot better than what I was thinking it was going to be. I learned the basics about being out there on the road, the gordon company procedures, the do's and dont's and everything else in between. In the end I wound up with having four, yes 4 trainers. No, I never switched to a new one, but my trainer curtis and his friends are one of the most knowledgeable and nicest people here at gordon. Curtis (my trainer) was the best trainer that I could of been teamed with, even some high up company guy's said the same too. Don, James and Mike who run on the Target and GP dedicated fleets have helped me out so much. Thanks to don for making me stay up till 2:30 in the morning at the Casino in Corning answering all my questions and just plain bullshittin' with me... James who now has left gordon to persue the life of an Owner Operator in his new volvo 770.... drool. Mike for driving me up here to pacific and giving me all his goodies he doesn't need anymore... I can wait to hook up my XM!

Theres to much to type out here, instead I'm going to do a photo essay in no particular order... *CLICK on the photos to make them bigger*


A nasty crash in roseburg, oregon. Shut down I-5 south for most of the day. This is the reason I will not drive a Gasoline Tanker. In this case, one of the tires got hot and blew up causing this truck to lost control and smash into some construction barriers. Driver was killed and when we drove by the truck was just burning. It was not even full, those flames are just left from the vapors and gasses still left in the tanks...


Snowing up and over the mountains heading toward oregon.


This is what it looks like when a couple hundred trucks stretched over miles just when the chain restriction was lifted for Ashland. TONS of trucks were on the shoulder putting on chains when all of a sudden they heard that the restriction was lifted. Some guys drove over the hill with only half of their chains on while others scrambled and pulled them off and got going. It was complete chaois making it over the mountain. A steady stream of trucks racing up the mountain and some four wheelers who made it really dangerous by going to slow... or cutting us off... But we made it. The mountain was snowy but the roads were wet... why did they even have a chain law? I will never know


Snowing in California near Mt. Shasta


Derrick and I with this lovely photo on valentines day... hahahaha


A clear day on Mount Shasta. Taken in the weed rest area.



Heading into the fog...


Curtis spent 2 hours polishing only half the fuel tank to only drive into a snow storm the next day to have all his work ruined... oops


75ft long and over 80,000lbs moving down the road at 55... don't cut trucks off!