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

This load is turning out to be a 3-ring circus who's main event is a 5 finger cluster ####...will update when this stop is settled

So I will update what is going on while I wait instructions from Corporate.

I get to the Henderson stop(which is a titanium smelting plant), which is a pickup of 3 pallets of titanium bricks. The pu time was from 7a to 3p. I get here at noon, check in with the guard. He tells me they don't load ingots until after 2 pm. I tell him I am not picking up ingots, I am picking up palletized bricks of titanium. He calls his boss, but then I sit. Around 1 pm a lady in a golfcart comes out and wants to see the paperwork that Park City gave me, and needs to inspect the load. I tell her I am picking up, not delivering. She proceeded to tell me that normally this particular stop is a truck bringing in 3 pallets of titanium bricks from Cali, she inspects them, signs the b/l, goes in the office, prints out another set of b/l (for the same 3 pallets) and then the truck takes them back to Cali....now, since I don't have 3 pallets of titanium bricks, they don't know what to do, so now I have Arlington involved, so here I sit wasting time waiting on instructions....I hear a reefer unit calling my name...lumpers and grocery warehouses are less of a nightmare than what is taking place here now that we are being Wylietized.

 

It's always Wylie's fault, just like when something goes wrong on our end, they blame us.

Besides, it wasn't the part where things got mixed up on the customer's end that irritated me, it was the 3 hours sitting there waiting on E.W. SPD to make a decision after I told them that the only thing that place had were ingots of raw titanium and there was no finished product to pick up. Which then put me right in the afternoon rush traffic which added an extra 30-40 minutes of travel time just to get out of town. I am already short on hours as it is. But, as of right now I couldn't give a flying fornication. I will deliver the next 2 stops on Tuesday, then head to the yard and do the final 4 stop on Wednesday, then if I have enough time to pick up something and get out of town, fine. Otherwise I will just head back to the yard and pick up something Thursday.

 

Maybe a little narrower, but the mountain didn't get any taller and they haven't made it less curvier.

 

Was another one of those days yesterday. Rancho had me drop my remaining stops at the yard and got me a sweet run from SoCal to MD. A 2600 mile, 8800 lb hazmat load that delivered any time between Monday and Wednesday. It was originally assigned to another driver, but they wouldn't have been able to get him back to TX from MD in time for his scheduled home time. As I was getting all my stuff moved from one trailer to the step deck I was assigned, the boss comes out and says Wichita overruled him and gave the load back to the driver and said they would just have him meet someone on the way that could finish the load and he would get something that got him home closer to his hometime. So instead of a load using one driver from start to finish, and the other driver getting a load to Wichita, then moving on a shorter load or two to keep him moving until hometime, they have to "find" someone to repower the load, then hope they find him a load back to the house. Meanwhile, I get the short end of the stick, again, because now I am on a 1350 mile run from Santa Fe Springs to Park City...and I had to fight thru LA area morning traffic to get to Santa Fe Springs burning extra time off of my already short hours, so I will barely have enough hours to make delivery.(I wouldn't have lost as much time on the other load and get back decent hours over the weekend). As it stands now, I won't be able to do much more than deliver and go park...I might not even have the hours to reload at either Park City or the new hole of a yard in Wichita...so it looks like Wichita's overruling is gonna #### me all weekend...I have lost what little respect I had for those arrogant clod hoppers in Wichita, well, except for Daniel who seems to still have a driver friendly attitude, but I'm sure they'll change him over time.