Our two days of orientation turned into over three days last week in Louisville. I was never more happy to get back to work than when we’d finished jumping thru all the necessary hoops and were finally heading out the gates of Mercer Transportation – the new company we leased our truck onto. It all went well but it was such a busy time running here and there getting things done. Such things as a mandatory drug test, a couple minor repairs their mechanics found on the truck, a trip to the TWIC office for a background check (that will let us into the ports and onto the military bases), a little class on load securement, and a lot of safety videos to watch. Everyone there was very nice to us, including our own personal dispatcher, Tom. It’s his job to find loads that will be suitable for our truck to carry. Because the truck is so big to begin with and then add the weight of the trailer, we are slightly restricted with the weight of the freight we can carry. That’s fine with us though - the lighter the load, the better the fuel mileage. We finished up with everything on Thursday morning and by Thursday afternoon, Tom had found us a load that picked up right there in Louisville. We were there bright and early the next morning and picked up three great big air-conditioning units which took up most of the trailer. Then we had to run down to Clarksville, Tennessee and get a couple loaded on there. We left there Friday afternoon and today we are delivering them at a couple locations in Oregon. Tomorrow morning we’ll drop off the last bunch at a job site near Portland. Thankfully our first load went pretty smooth. We’ll find out tomorrow after we’re completely finished when and where the next load goes. We think we’re going to like working for this company.