Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Deland said that it was a GPS issue...but I wasn't using the tablet, I was using the Love's app, and the tablet's ELD location said I was at the city I was trying to fuel...don't know what the issue is.

Now my shipper loaded me, and are now unloading me, so I don't know how much extra time I am gonna have to putz around fueling twice...I may just bypass the terminal fuel location and request a new one down the road.

Between the nanny systems, the retarded auto transmission programming, the assigned fuel locations, and no APU, I am starting to miss the freedom of a WTF-I company. I did see an advertisement from Lonestar in my area making significantly more than what SPD was paying...if I didn't need the insurance asap, I might go back to open deck...with the crap ride of these Junkliners, my back is bugging me almost as much as when I had to tarp.

 

Load got a little wonky. They had me loaded fairly quickly, however they had to unload me. Turns out the product they put on first, was on hold from their Quality Control department...but it wasn't marked or labeled as on hold. The loader only found out it was on hold when he went to print out the b/l. So he had to unload it, then stage some of the identical product that wasn't on hold. So, it took about an extra hour and a half. I managed to make it to the Carlisle Love's and put 18.2 gal of DEF in, but I skipped the terminal fuel stop because the delay getting dispatched on the load, then the delay getting loaded (and the nightmare of the Carlisle Love's) put me tight on my delivery appointment. I pulled in and checked in exactly at my appointment. And I am being unloaded now. Funny thing is, I pick up here tomorrow, so I may be loading some of the same product back on my trailer going to IL.

Had some excitement while I was at the shipper. The guy next to me was being loaded while I was checking in. I was back out in my truck waiting my turn. And I could still hear them hitting the dock plate on his truck. Then I saw him walk out with his B/L, get in his truck and pull out of the dock to seal his trailer...about 2 feet from the dock you hear yelling and the slide in metal dock plate hit the ground. I realized, they weren't done loading him and he just drove off...with the forklift and loader still in the trailer. I honked my horn to get his attention. He proceeded to back up to the dock again. Turns out, they gave him his bills, but told him they had a couple more pallets to put in before he could leave...I guess he forgot. And this wasn't a newbie Swift or CRE driver, this guy was my age (he said in his 28 years out here, that's the first time he had that happen).... thankfully the forklift wasn't 1/2 way in the trailer when he did that...