Well folks - Yellow/Roadway (now known as YRC Inc.) is in full merger mode.

We have been moving equipment and files from the Yellow facility in Cincy to the Roadway Terminal next door.

it looks kinda strange having a yellow truck pulling a big R trailer and vice versa...

Coming back from Chicago yesterday I had a roadway tractor - a yellow lead - a new YRC jiff and a new YRC pup on the rear...

looked like a patchwork quilt going down the road! ...

wow...

what a year...

I have been hashing over in my mind whether or not it is as bad as people say out there...


I performed a little experiment the past 2 weeks...

I sent my resume into one of those mill websites that then for-wards it off to a gazillion companies.

1. curious

2. if things get much worse - I may need a temporary job (lay offs at YRC are going deep this year) ...

Just got a call from my sis -

(I saw them yesterday as they left to run over to the Renaissance festival in Waynesville Ohio.

anyway - I ran back home and did not talk to her last night - but she just called...)


seems they never made it to the festival -

as they were sitting in a turn lane to enter the gates - a guy on a motorcycle (with his son riding behind him) was staring at the happening and drifted over and hit their car! ...

I ran down to Charleston WV last night - and then back home..

total run time was 10.7 hours...

The hitch was that I had to stop at a customer on the way down and drop of a trailer.

(your gonna love this one)

I left Cincy on time (18 minutes early actually) and arrived at the customer not having stopped for ANYTHING except red lights...

It was 10 minutes past 5pm....

A lady come running across the parking lot screaming ...

Ran a loop around Indiana / Kentucky yesterday...

You know you "know" the roads too well when you change lanes to avoid potholes automatically!

somewhere in my subcomcious I remembered to get out of the right lane at the 131.6 mm on I65 south in Ky.

hehheheh

nothing better than returning home at night to see Cincy gleaming on the River...

ahhhhhhh.....

What a week - doctor visit on Monday - ultrasound and lithotrypsy on Thursday.


(Been on the "sick board" at work for the last 68 hours)

I have used up all of my pain killers - as noon yesterday - and I am ready to work again.

(had to stay off while I was doped up)

Man.... Not sure if you have ever dealt with "stones" before - but lemme tel ya... they are a real treat! ...

I was sitting in the lobby of the hotel we use in Atlanta the other day (Monday) and a group of seven came in and plopped down in the lobby couches around where I was sitting...

They were very excited and gung-ho about their orientation starting that day with "Super Service".. (an OTR company based out of Ky.).

One of them asked me if I was going to orientation too....

I said - "no, I am going to work in a few minutes..." ...