Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

That's the difference between the generations. I was raised by depression era parents who also lived thru the tough times during WWII. You were taught to work hard every day and to take advantage of the busier times because it can go from busy to dead in a blink of an eye. One of my dad's favorite sayings was "the easiest way to kill a day is work it to death". I don't sleep worth a crap when I am not tired, and piddling along under 65 mph doesn't make me tired and would bore me to death. And actually, compared to how I used to run pre-ELD, it's like I am taking it easy now. Back then, 4000 miles in 6 days wasn't an uncommon occurrence, and I wasn't as irritable and grumpy or stressed out back then. In fact, I was a much more pleasant person to be around back then because it was fun to run.

 

Today is my last day of hometime and I can't wait to get back to work. I haven't gotten nearly as much done around home as I anticipated, but I got the urgent stuff taken care of. Now it's time to get back to the paying job.

 

Got a preplan yesterday. Pick up in Plant City Friday afternoon. Deliver in Zanesville OH Monday evening. 3 days, 1010 miles. And, nobody moved me home in the system, so they tried to only pay me 14 deadhead miles (from where I delivered in Lakeland last Friday). So, once they got around to correcting my deadhead miles (to 152). I accepted the load. 1162 isn't the best start, and I suspect it won't get much better now that the honeymoon with the new guy is over, it really does look like 3-350/day is the best the average driver can do here. So I guess I better get used to not running how I prefer and just get used to being a seat warming steering wheel holder, because that's all they expect from their average driver.