Going Well and Life Changes

Things are going well at CRST Malone. 

We are making money .. not huge amounts of money yet but definitely pretty consistent and enough that we are not falling behind in our bills or anything of that sort so that is a great thing! 

I am pretty certain that we will succeed at this company. 

We are getting the hang of finding loads and getting them all lined up to where he is getting them pretty much back to back .. we had a little snafu when he ended up in Texas but we are learning the "dead" areas at least this time of the year and avoiding them. He seems for the most part happy there .. of course he wouldnt be him if he didnt have little things to complain about. 

His mother has started to deteriorate pretty quickly .. she is not eating .. has refused a G tube and we are allowing her to make that choice. She has no quality of life and has honestly wanted to just be done living ever since pop passed so why extend the inevitable. We have come together as a family and made the choice to just keep her comfortable and make sure she is in no distress until the end. We are asking for hospice to come in and give her some extra care beyond what the nursing home is able to. The nursing home as been absolutely wonderful to her and they are so good to her. But it is time for a little extra care and help especially when it comes to pain medication and keeping her comfortable. 

I will update as this situation progresses. 

Well we are about 3 weeks in

We are about 3 weeks in with this new company .. CRST Malone. 

He did his week of orientation and then they got him a rental car to go pick up his truck. 

He then got a load that took him to Florida I believe .. my memory escapes me right now. Anyhow then the plan was he was going to come home and spend the night. Get everything loaded into his truck and organized and then head out. Well he got a call and they were begging him to run up to Macon area and grab a load to Texas. So he came home for about 30 minutes .. threw the essentials into the truck and left that quick. Grabbed that load and headed out for Texas. He got to Texas got his load delivered and then couldn't get out .. there were NO loads going anywhere ... He moved from south Texas to up by Houston after 2 days and still sat another additional day. 

Finally they found him a load over in Mississippi so he had to drive over there empty. By this time we had about 975 empty miles that we do not get paid for .. OUCH!!! 

He took the load from Mississippi to Illinois. Reloaded in Illinois and is now headed back to Texas .. Ughhhh!!! Lets hope he can get out of there alot quicker and we dont have to eat so many empty miles. 

Now the next issue. So Fridays the paycheck stubs show up on the website for us to view .. I log in .. check the stub and it says his paycheck is $347 .. say WHAT?!?!?! We had figured that it was going to be like $1300 so that is a LONG way off. We figure out that they did not bill the correct amount of money and due to that his pay was not what we figured so now they are supposedly working on it but who knows if it will get settled or if we will ever get that money. That hurts us this week BIG TIME!!!! I was so angry!!! I told him "I told you so!!" 

I hate jumping companies. I dont know how this always happens to him/us but it does and I am real dang tired of it!!!  

Today is the day

He is at orientation for CRST Malone as we speak. 

Let's pray this was the right move for us and where we should be and the job that will help us trully stay on our feet and not just survive but make money so we can accomplish some of our long term goals. 

I am sure I will hear from him on his lunch break. 

Trucked turned in and we are done with Hinz

He took the truck back this morning. 

Turned in the keys and paperwork. 

They didnt ask him why or anything. 

He asked for a ride back to town and they said he would have to wait for the big boss. He decided not to and walked over to the truck stop and then called a taxi. 

He is back in the hotel and settled until he can get a rental car to get to his orientation for the new company. 

So here we go .. CRST Malone here we come!!