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

Stopping at the Wichita yard for the night. Looking more like a Wylie yard today than an SPD yard, there are as many Wylie trucks as SPD. I saw more SPD trucks at the Love's west of here on US54 than here at the yard. Including a brown mid-roof 680 that had a company truck number on it. I am supposed to deliver in Park City tomorrow, but after calling and emailing for an appointment over the weekend, I got no reply from them, and they claim they only unload by appointment (supposedly are open over the weekends at that location, maybe they closed because it's a holiday weekend). We'll see in the morning. This has been a weird tour of duty this time...I have only done 2 34 hr restarts since leaving home.

 

By the way, a message popped up on my Love's app saying the problem with the points not being added when using the app to activate the pumps has been resolved. I tried it, and it now works like it should.

 

TMX north, not the place down by the PODS warehouse but the warehouse near the casino. I will call them again 1st thing in the morning and see when they want it. Thing is, it's been days since I have heard anything from my dispatcher, so I'm not sure if he really is moving to a truck or if he has to wait until they get someone up to speed to take over his drivers...so I am in limbo as what is going on.

 

The last time I brought in raw material the b/l sent me to the same warehouse as this load is showing, when I went to check in, they said my load goes to the other place, so I had to take it there. I am hoping that isn't the case this time...last time it was pouring rain and miserable. As warm as it is now, it'll be just plain miserable. Then who knows when I will get my next load since I haven't been in communication with dispatch. Hopefully I can get an appointment and get unloaded in a reasonable time tomorrow and not be too far down the load list.

 

It's a #### shame that we were provided $25m dollars for new equipment, and so far, I don't think they spent a penny of it on stuff like tarps. The CNC machine had #### tarps, the load I took to SoCal had decent tarps, but the load I pulled out of Rancho had 1 of 3 tarps that was in good shape, the center tarp had holes at one end and near the holes it looked like cheesecloth, but it was fully covered by the other good tarp. The other end tarp was torn half way down the middle, and Rancho didn't have replacements. Get to Wichita and they don't have ANY spare tarps to replace them. I had to rob another flatbed of tarps so I can pick up another TMX 4 stopper ending in NJ. And the Wichita yard was a 5 finger fuster cluck. There must have been 15 outside carrier trucks picking up skid steers...not one of our trucks was getting any.

When I got to my pu, the lady said they heard the Wichita terminal is moving down the street somewhere...amazing how our customers hear about stuff before we do. Not sure if it's true or not.

 

Is it gonna be our building and property or is gonna be another lease. (If it's ours we can build a bigger warehouse)

I had a good set but had to give them up on that elevator load I dropped in Arlington. They just need to buy some new ones instead of the patchwork quilts we have now