What's Your 20 Maverick

I hope you have better luck in that place than I do! I always end up being there way longer than I anticipate. Last Friday, I got there around 10:30 am for an 11 am appointment. That was my load home, so I was hoping to get in and out pretty quick. After waiting an hour and a half to get called back, I ended up getting 20 coils! Needless to say, it took me a little while to secure and tarp that mess, and I didn't get home till Sat am. That was NO FUN!

 

Ooooo, So sorry to hear that Dan LOL! I don't do that God-Forsaken place anymore! I just got my 5 coil load out of GalvTech in Pittsburgh. It's going to Sauk Village, IL tomorrow. Bedtime....

 

That is where you went wrong LOL!

 

Well im at the truckstop at exit 28 after finally gettin loaded late. Guess i was due a bad day there as the last several times ive been loaded near my appointment time. Jill kept me company on the drive to the truckstop lol.

 

I'm sitting outside of..on second thought, being as everyone here was incredibly nice, I won't mention where I am. I will mention that after they loaded me they figured out I had the wrong coil. Seems it belonged to the guy behind me. So they swap it off my truck onto his (another Maverick driver, also an incredibly helpful fellow, who taught me A LOT tonight, but don't know if he'd want me to throw his name out).

They then figure out that my coil headed for MS, is currently on it's way to Canada. Worse yet, there isn't a replacement coil. So I've just been sitting here waiting on Mav to tell me something. Would be an amusing story if it wasn't taking everything I have just to stay awake.

 

At the pilot on 75/40 in tn. Just loaded it gerdau in Knoxville. Headed to Marion il.

 

Detroit, waiting on w/a.

 

Fairview, TN, waiting on another driver for a load swap going to Lebanon, TN., then I'm heading to the house!

 

Rest area I75 in Ohio headed to Portland tn. Doubt there is a load heading back towards charlotte from there! Oh well...

 

Back at the Gary yard tonight. Loaded for Pittsburgh tomorrow. This will be an interesting Friday for me as I have to route myself (with FM permission) to my hometown to (hopefully) make it to a funeral tomorrow- straight outta the truck- then hop back in get to Nextech in Pitt, get unloaded and hopefully get a Saturday reload that I can take thru home on Saturday..... Or else, it will be a very rare weekend stuck out for me.