Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Another one of those 'why do I do this' days. Got to the receiver an hour early and they had me unloaded by my appointment time...then it all went down hill. Next load is out of some piddly egg farm in Po-dunk, IN. Went north on I-65, and just as I passed the exit to the Louisville bypass, I hear on the CB that northbound was closed due to a multiple semi wreck that also had a pickup involved, and one of the semi's was hauling chemicals. Finally fought my way to an exit and got turned around and down to the bypass. Got to the exit 16 Love's in Indiana, and went to clean out my trailer. Idexx insisted that the trailer was clean before loading me yesterday, and it was nasty, so I had it washed out. When I got unloaded and went to blow out the pallet scraps, I discovered that there were so many dirty tire tracks in there that there is no way the egg people would load me. Went north of Seymour to Columbus, IN to an old independent truck wash...or where the building of an old truck wash use to be, who's back lot where you use to back in to have a washout, it is now a dumping ground for old tree stumps and tree debris. So I had to go all the way up to Whiteland to wash out. Then I wasn't gonna make my pick up appointment. Then, to hunt the shipper, who is on back roads so narrow your one set of tandems are on the yellow lines and your other is on the white line. And the directions to the place have landmarks that don't exist any more. I drove right on by one turn because it said 'at the blinking yellow light, turn right'...only there wasn't a blinking yellow light, and no road sign and a turn onto a road so small it looks like someone's driveway. 10 miles of roads and curves not designed for 52' x 102" trailers, I found a closed road I could do a 3 point turn around. Came back thru the same area, and I went right by the road again because I swear, it looks like a driveway. Just as I pass the road, I get a message that the appointment has been changed to morning, so I went to the TA and said f-itall ta helenback. Told Op's that we shouldn't be doing business with places like this and that I can't believe we are so desperate for freight that we stoop to going out into Podunk areas for this type of loads, and any time in the future that I see this customers name on a preplan, it will be rejected...I don't care if it pays me $1/mi cross country. I cannot wait to hand them the keys and flip Tonn, and all his Veeps the double barreled bird.

 

Yep.

 

I am closer than I thought last week, but I won't make mine this quarter...and we only have to turn 28,800 over here.