Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

You can drop your paperwork in the boxes in coon rapids by the computer in the lounge.
There are 4 DM’s in coon rapids if you need anything any of them can do it for you.

 

Okay thank you. For some reason i thought you had to turn in your load paperwork to whatever terminal your DM was at.

With that, i deliver tomorrow in Illinois and then I'm headed home to a generous 6 days of hometime. Hoping to get ready for move out, so mext month i can just pack my car and go.

 

Just a small update, mainly for those who might be wondering what lanes Magnum typically runs.

This is starting from my time at home in Michigan until now: MI-MN-VA-NJ-WI-IL-MN-TX-VA

As you can see I've made a rough triangle with my loads. Currently I'm planned on picking up at 2 stops in PA and NJ after my delivery here in Virginia, and taking them to North Dakota. Most lanes are easy to run.

Don't let New Jersey scare you. It's easy to get in and out as long as you use common sense and trip planning. Plus I love the miles to NJ and back. The PA/NJ to ND load is over 2,000 paid miles including my deadhead from VA.

We don't go north of PA/NJ, hence our lack of New York HUT stickers on our rigs, and the farthest southwest we go is Salt Lake City, so no dealing with the shenanigans out in California. I've done a MN to Plant City, Florida run but I'm not sure of the frequency of those.

That's just my runs coming off my last hometime. We have a ton of freight that runs into and out of North Carolina, even though i haven't done one of those runs in a few months. We also have reasonable freight going to the pacifc NW, and those are always great miles if you can snag one.

We also move a lot of freight to and from OK/TX too. My favorite lane is probably TX to CO then the beer load back up to ND. US-85, especially between Cheyenne, WY and Spearfish, SD, is a desolate but beautiful drive. You can go a long time between seeing signs of civilization or even other vehicles.

Curious to see if my lanes will change with my move to Kansas, especially to and from hometime.

 

Nice update, so they cut out WA and OR? I loved those runs too when I worked there.

 

We still run out to WA. I'm not sure about OR though.

 

Yes, he n my way back from WA

 

So i picked up 7 pallets in Bethlehem, PA. 5 for Grand Forks, 2 for Bismarck. Picked up the rest in Elizabeth, NJ. Again some for GF, and some for Bismarck. Both going to US Foods in both towns. I have a couple pallets where the tops of the frieght weren't wrapped, and i don't have anything to secure it with. I've been neglecting to put my one seal i have for this load on until i actually get to Bismarck. I've just been checking the back regularly. A few cases of shrimp have fell off the one pallet onto the floor, but the cardboard is intact. The fact that this is a frozen load probably helps that situation. I'll restack the half dozen of cases or so that fell once i get into Bismarck tomorrow.

My main qualm is that i had the 2nd shipper load the Bismarck freight last, as that's my first stop. But in order to get to their other two pallets of freight that the 1st shipper loaded, they'll have to also offload the 2nd part of the Grand Forks load. I really hope the lumpers at US Foods Bismarck doesn't give me any grief about that, otherwise I'll be screwed.

 

A Magnum Pete just passed me doing 67. Truck 2001. You guys sure that were governed to only 65? I've had a few other company trucks pass me doing 67.

 

I had a 2000 truck before I got in this new one. I asked Barry from the Fargo shop about this and he said that some of the older trucks had some kind of program put into them where if they got above 8 miles per gallon average fuel mileage or something like that then the trucks can do 68 MPH for a short while. Usually only for a few hours or so before it would kick you back down to 65 (which it would do automatically) but once I think I got 68 MPH for around 5 hours because I just didn't stop the truck. You said that truck passed you at 67 but I know in the old truck I had it would get up to 68 MPH on the cruise for that short time period. Usually I got it a couple times a week, sometimes less often if I was heavy and doing mountain driving.

Anyways, I guess they did away with that little test program but just left the program on some of the older trucks. So that's why you're seeing some drivers in older model trucks being able to go faster but it won't be consistently, only for a short period of time. Doesn't really make a difference mileage wise for the day (because it doesn't last long) but it was nice to be able to pass other trucks.

 

US foods knows how this load is loaded and will unload accordingly, if that means taking Bismarck’s off and putting it back on once GF gets their stuff.