FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

....and the average car lasted 150k miles, IF YOU WERE LUCKY.

 

Oh my, how the mighty have fallen… LOL

Well, I switched to local small craft beer (or home brew) about 15+ years ago (more options; better beer) and never looked back.

but it’s been fun watching this whole thing play out. Saw a YouTube video yesterday about Sturgis this year. Big team up between BL/Harley/Folds of Honor trying to reclaim lost ground and no one was in the tents, well except workers and camera folks recording the emptiness.

cheers

 

Because people keep ragging on them and blowing them up. I'm a part of a few of those groups on Facebook and it never fails. Every day i see someone complaining that the transmission blew up in their 'bulletproof' car and complain that it will cost this much to fix. The transmissions in these cars are great, and will last a long time. The issue is that these cars have already been beat to hell and back by law enforcement agencies. Then young kids buy them and proceed to rag on them some more. I prefer buying civilian models, because most of the people who bought these cars were older folks who kept up on maintenence and didn't drive like maniacs.

Most of the cars I've bought have been older people or the relatives of old folks selling them privately, and I've had great success doing so. The one car I've bought from a young person burned oil like mad and was otherwise a crapbox.

 

Well Sunday was one of those trucking days. Had a planned out to a busy day but on the short side, done between 12 and 1.
Started off well enough. Made my way to Clayton. It wasn't in either GPS (the whole thing was put in over the last couple years) but I knew where it was so just set the GPS to the TA just North of the entrance (I like having the rolling ETA).
Bopped in there, a not quite awake security guard gives me a sheet telling me to drop in Y134 and to take 7817 in slot Y038. Drop just fine, the go to Y038, which is empty. In slot Y039 is 7813, I checked it and it's empty. I cruise the line a make sure 7817 is anywhere to be found, getting ready to go back to the shack and ask to take 7813 look the sheet over again and the last 7 is kinda funny looking. Hell with it. Grab 7813 and head for the gate. (It was also late on Service so I messaged weekend dispatch to see if we needed to do anything to it before dropping it but they were content just to plan on routing it back), Get to the gate and they were happy (I did tell them I took it from the wrong slot).
Head toward Paperworks in Wabash, stop at the Love's in Tipton, IN to take a leak. Walk around the truck and find a bolt in a trailer tire, get the pliers to see if I can pull it out. As soon as I wiggle it, it starts hissing. Call weekend dispatch and give them the heads up then go check in with the tire shop. They're short handed so there'll be a wait. Such is the way of the world these days. At least I'm not on the side of the road and nothing is torn up. Finally roll me in about an hour and a half later. Repair goes easy enough. He's able to patch the tire. Then go to settle up and they can't get the Love's account to work, try an EFS check, they can't get that to work. Finally just in the interest of getting moving I paid the bill (It was $50) and got the receipts. Spent about 3 hours on that misadventure.
Get rolling again and get to there reasonably well. Several tiiight turns but made it there and found the droplot and my trailer right away. Check and it's loaded. Get mine dropped and then go to find the shipping office and find lots of signs for where the shipping office and isn't orders to follow the signs to it. But after half an hour of hunting I head back to the truck and fortunately there was another driver there who I could ask. He pointed me to a gap in bales of scrap paper. Once you are there there are signs that do a pretty good job of getting you where you need to be but finding that first bread crumb was a <bad word>.
Get my bills head out to truck and send the macro. Then get a call from Paperworks telling me my load had already shipped and I had to get a different load number. After a moment of back and forth he figured out that I was preload and we were actually good but that was a momentary heart-stopper.
Debate whether or not to scale but I figured I'd feel like a real dimwit if I drug it 120 miles and then found out it was no good. So went to the little travel stop at the Junction of US 24 and 31. Got on the scale and fired up the CAT scale app. Never used it before but got the deed done and it was all good. Pops up the option get a PDF of scale ticket and click it off without thinking then it tells me I can get a scale ticket at the fuel desk for the next hour. Well shoot, It'd be good to have a ticket with me... Try to get to the fuel island and I dunno what happened but everybody and their dog showed up at once. Tried to get spun around to run in and grab a ticket but every time I'd start to move someone who decide to hang out in the space I needed. Got it done on something like Plan "D" . Trot inside and they're stacked 5 deep at the fuel desk. Play some more with the scale app and figure out I can get the PDF back, so I decided I could live without a paper ticket.
Haul butt back down toward home and I've gotten it to where I have a 10 minute cushion. Get to the other side of Indy and solid brakelights. There was at least a mile backup. I checked later and I guess there was a vehicle on fire. So I jumped off on 267 and bopped up to 40 and back down 39 to get around it but I was definitely hosed. Hammered a lot harder than I like to but I had to pull it off and shut it down in Brazil. I had 12 miles to go but only 8 minutes left on my 14. So the wife had to come get my sorry butt.
Didn't help I was fighting a bug or something so I was feeling worse and worse as the day went on. Everything gets harder when you aren't at 100%. Oh well, Tuesday morning I'll be tanned, rested, and ready.

 

Got neither pallets nor McKinley paper (thank god) for my next load. Going clear up 30 miles north of Santa Fe on 84/285 highway to a place called CR Minerals. Anyone ever been here before?

 

The weather might be playing a small part in low attendance. I came across there yesterday and from the WY line all the way to Kimball, SD it was in the mid-60’s and intermittent showers. I saw a lot of bikes rolling east(both being ridden and on weekend warrior trailers). The riders for the ones being ridden were bundled up like it was winter.

 

Yes, not bad. In and out fairly quick. You'll need a truck wash when you leave that place though!

 

63 in omaha and windy ...think ill put on a sweatshirt and go mow.

 

I'm here unloading pallets, been raining off and on, so much for it drying out for ya today