Melton, Whatcher 20

I just did 2 different loads in Louisiana then to Mississippi to pick one up. I'm used to the humidity, this cold weather in Chicago is killing me. I hate this load, glad I had plenty of 4x4s. Needed 4 bulkheads so it wouldn't shift front or back since they split the load on the trailer and I have a small 2 foot pipe in my side box that weighs 100 pounds that was randomly sitting on wood in middle of it so it's riding in my box.

 

Yeah family choices can be hard I got divorced after seven years of marriage Got custody of my kids I chose to live in nowhere Arkansas and do chicken plant maintenance six days a week 26 weeks a year seven days a week the other half I grew up in the suburbs Chicago and I was not going to have my kids growing up in that environment my son lives in Tulsa suburbs now so does my daughter my son asked me the other day how come I never move to a city I asked him if he had a child would he prefer to raise it in the environment he lives in now or where he was raised I won hands down

 

Oh yeah I had to work all that overtime arkansas's maintenance man wages we're not that much higher than a line workers at the time

 

older skinny guy that had short hair.

yea i have a 3 yr old daughter at home. talk to her on the phone alot and do video whenever i got good enough service. shes always tells me to come home and wants me to watch a movie with her. does suck sometimes but shes got everything she needs because of me.just the way it is for now

 

happened to me too. 900 ish mile load with 2 extra stops wont be on this weeks check cause last part delivered tuesday. hoping not the same happens on this load either, 1 stop in oregon and finish in washington 180 miles apart ...doable..we'll see.

yep ive helped plenty other drivers especially if im sitting at laredo. lots of times where others are at shipper or cons and dont offer. owell i just remember what their truck number is.

when i was with my trainer when i started a couple of us were doing runs back n forth from gary ussteel to eu claire and this one driver never wanted to help and was rude when i asked him a question, basically ignored me. he asks my trainer a question the next time we are loading and he basically told him 'i dont know'. then told me 'see what happens? needs help all of a sudden but couldnt help you worth a ####.'

some people just out for themselves

 

stopped at loves calvert city off i24 for the night.
another driver pulled up next to me asked if he could have a few pipe stakes. he needed them for a load and gave up some of his when another driver needed them. ive used those stakes once since ive started... im sure next few loads ill finally need them again haha

 

Commerce Georgia TA. Hour from cons on outskirts of Atlanta and 2 and half from the house. Boom home time tomorrow.

 

Must be nice! I've forgotten where I live.