Maverick .... from a wife's perspective

Redcoat said he would take a look the next time he stopped which would be in a little bit to check his load. He was under the impression that it was something that was automatic.

Now, I'm not sure where Redcoat picked up his load whether it was in Darlington or somewhere else. I lose track of where he is. But I know it was a load of channel whatever that is. Some kind of iron?

Yesterday morning he got the call over the CB to come in and load and he said it was the most frustrating experience ever only because of the waiting. First he had to get in line to weigh the truck and get his paperwork. Then he had to get in line to get loaded with the channel. I think there were 5 or 6 pieces and he had to wrap the chains tight around each piece which sounded like quite a bit of work. Then he had to put the canvas tarps over that and then the regular tarps and "hundreds of bungees" as he put it. That took him about 2 1/2 hours. Then he had to get in line again to weigh the truck before leaving. It was something like 1500 before he finally rolled out of the yard.

He's headed up to Baltimore by way of I-20 to I-95 and for whatever reason (probably just really tired) he turned the wrong way from the shipper to get to I-20 and it took him a half hour before he could get turned around. He gets really nervous in unfamiliar territory so he doesn't like to just pop off the next exit to turn around unless he can see that there is a place for him to maneuver. After it was all said and done, it was close to 1900 before he finally made it almost to I-95 so he decided to call it a day since it was getting dark and he was hungry and exhausted. Better to get some food and sleep. He planned on getting up at 0400 to shower and get on the road by 0500.

I think, ideally, that in a perfect world, Maverick tries to deliver loads in the morning, bounce to the next shipper and the driver hopefully gets to the consignee by the evening in time to deliver the following morning.

My question is, realistically, how often does this happen? It seems more like deliver/bounce/load on one day and then travel the next day alternating days. Is this more the case?