Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I gotcha beat on this load. I picked up a preloaded trailer out of the Sikeston ice cream cold storage going to Cedar Falls, IA. I have a whopping 2 pallets on there with a gross weight of 1335 lbs, including pallet weight. Thinking that they didn't give me all of the bills, I thought about scaling it, but just pulling out of the industrial park you could tell that there isn't any weight. Either it's some special flavor, some seriously back ordered product, or #### good ice cream to pay for a full size truck to bring 2 pallets 475 miles.

 

Dropped my ice cream this morning. Because of that delay getting the previous load unloaded, I ended up doing a split break in order to make it on time. Planned on going back to the Love's just east of that Target DC in Cedar Falls, but my next load comes out of Ankeny, and the weather was getting challenging across US-20 out of Cedar Falls. When I left the DC, it was 28° and overcast and a bit breezy. Between there and I-35, it got #### windy and down to 21° by the time I got going south. And the plows were trying to keep up, not from any snow falling, but just from the blowing snow that had the road covered in spots, and being a crosswind, it was almost dizzying at times...and periodically would make you loose all road feel. So, I busted butt down to the Altoona FJ before it got worse so I can get a washout and pick up 10 miles from here in the morning. I made it here with 6 min to spare on my abreviated split 14.

 

How long before bottom feeding mega trucking companies try this in order to keep drivers (last time I checked, Wisconsin was part of the USA, not some communist or socialist dictatorship)

Workers at a Wisconsin hospital sought new jobs with higher pay — then the hospital sued to stop them from leaving