My journey with Orange starts

Oh gawd...hope like heck I don't get that one tomorrow....

 

There's lots of loads in TN I just looked. what part of Tennessee

 

Bummer. Sorry to hear that.

 

Sorry 'bout your truck, softail. I know the feeling...

And I didn't get warhippy's local load!! Woohoo!! What I did get is 44k of paper...

 

Never made it to Tennessee. I saw the board also and didn't see an issue but it's worked in our favor anyways.

Our assignments have been good....short for team (500-850) but good. Laredo to Dallas, pick up relay headed for a P&G plant outside Cape Giraredeau...back to West Memphis and now headed to Oshkosh Wisconsin. So far we are on a 1000 mile a day average which is just fine. I listened in on a conference call for all the teams. I figured out the issues we had were a lot worse than what they were whining about. "I was detained four hours at a shipper today...Do I get detainment pay for that?" Four hours?? That's not that bad when you look at it. What I focus on is the big picture. What are the miles for the week? Did I need those detainment hours waiting for a later run that I'm short on hours? I try and take a deep breath and roll with the flow. I didn't get into this job to be stressed out over small stuff.

Tomorrow's a live unload which means 2-3 hours of waiting and that's good. The way my son and I work is I am doing stuff for 12-14 hours a day and have actually ran out of my 14 several times. I can knock out 500-550 miles, deliver the loads, handle paperwork and prep the truck for his shift. He wakes, does pre-trip on his time and drives. He knocks out 600 miles a night no problem and is usually and is usually sitting outside the reciever when I take over. It ain't perfect but it works for us.

Sorry about the truck Softail!

 

This seems to be the norm on the weekends and it's beginning to really irritate us. My load was going from SC to Joliet, Ill. Since it's a holiday weekend I asked if the receiver would be open on the weekend. They said no not until tuesday. Problem defeated before it began!!! Relayed to Indianapolis and it showed us arriving 65 minutes late. This is twice this has happened where we didn't touch the ETA and it showed us late.

Anyhow not a bad week. Didn't hit our mark of 7000 miles but did get 6500 for the week. Headed back to South Carolina with a Target run.

I don't understand all the issues you're having but keep a note of which runs and what the situation was and send an email to your DBL's boss. They will look up the assignment history and see what the issue was. May not solve your problem but may prevent it in the future. The higher up's have no idea there is an issue at all so if nothing is said it will keep happening.

 

I have been having issues where the workflow appointment doesn't match what the customer (sometimes both shipper and receiver) has for an appt. Starting to look like an issue. I had a 2 stop drop near Denver that had my fixed appts. 24 hours later than the customer expected. One stop took me, the other didn't.

Got one of Greg's beer runs to SLC. The pickup was 0200. Had to wait almost a full day for the appt. They told me they were behind loading 60 to 70 trailers so that I would likely have to wait, but that I still needed to make the appt. Got there on time. They said probably a 6 to 7 hour wait. Not cool. Then the guard offers to change to a live load so it shouldn't take as long. OK. Just after I park in the waiting lot, a yard driver knocks on my door with a door assignment. I end up getting out of there 2.5 hours after I arrived. Not bad.

I wonder what the rest of the weekend will be like.