An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Hopefully you get loaded early. Thats a tight run to be in socal by noon monday with a saturday afternoon load time

 

Welcome to West Texas! I showed up to the yard tonight in Midland and am told to take the spare. The only problem is the spare has no air conditioning and the windows don’t roll down.. and it’s 109 degrees. The dispatcher says “we know, that’s why we paid for the small fan that your day driver put in there”. Told him it reminded me of those convection oven infomercials where moving the hot air cooks the bird faster. Guy still expected me to go out all while he was smacking on potato chips, indoors. Very nearly quit tonight.

Called the owner who said to take off until the a/c or windows are fixed. Lazy, arrogant low level office workers will always be the bane of a driver’s existence.

 

Let them sit in it and see how it feels. Bet that changes their tune real fast.

 

Well last week was an up and down one for me. Started off dead heading from my house to Tulsa, dropped my empty wing trailer and grabbed a stretch flat heading for STL to load. Only problem, I was supposed to drop that wing trailer in Wichita for maintenance. Not a big deal but still a dumb move on my part, misreading a text message.

Loaded my 14 wide to Tulsa and was in Tulsa that same night.

Off loaded Tuesday morning and hooked a preloaded 15’6” wide box to texas. Unloaded and reloaded that same box for GA. Made it to Dublin, GA on the second night. The next morning,Friday, as I was fueling I found a big ### nail right near the Sidewall on a brand new drive tire. No big deal, put a plug in it, topped off off with air and I was on my merry way.

100 miles later the DPS was over joyed to inform me that I had a flat drive tire, my plug had failed. So I pulled around back and had the tire fixed before he could even finish my level two inspection. The prick still cited me and put me “out of service”. Even tired to tack on a citation for not having a valid proof of inspection on my truck, even though he never asked for it. He ended up removing that when I gave him the paperwork for the inspection. At least the double plug has been holding for over 1000 miles now.

Finished the last 15 miles of that run and unloaded and reload a different 15’6” wide crate back to Tulsa. This one even has the weight on it, I’m a pretty good guesser. I think I said between 10 and 15k pounds earlier.
Friday night I parked in Ringold, GA after fighting a particularly rowdy 285 crowd on a Friday afternoon. Right next to Bennett who’s now hauling a load we hauled for years, the horizontal stabilizer for a 767. We call it the widowmaker, we used to tarp this load outside in the texas heat.

made it almost back to Tulsa before my 70 tapped out at 67 hours and 3531 miles. All but 630 are oversize.

I’m running with some of my favorite escorts so we went and ate seafood. Overall pretty decent week.

 

Still have the rest of the week to get some more miles too!

 

Straight to TMX you go. Maybe you’ll get lucky and that project is over by now.

 

@kylefitzy this any better…