Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Business must be booming. There are 2 trailers in the runway between the shop and HR...no trailers on the curb past the loaded trailer lot...and only a hand full of trailers in the inspection waiting area in front of the shop.

 

I'll be in GP later tonight. Picked up a Sunnyvale backhaul in Brownsville. Will be there till Friday since my truck is past due for a PM.

 

Just curious, how long is it, on average for them to contact you after the interview process?

 

That helps. Yeah I have the s4 with the samsung mhl2.0... I was so proud of myself for getting it off ebay for $5.... then I was like eh you get what you paid for lol

 

Hey SSB, it's 3 kids, not 2, lol! The cats will be in a crate in the back of the van because our little dog wouldn't leave them alone! Our 105lb dog will just lay on the back seat with one of our girls for most of the trip.

 

I've checked, nobody sells MHL 2.0 adapters in the box stores yet, only online. I have been to Fry's, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Wally, and a few one location independent electronic stores and none had the 2.0. Radio Shack didn't even know they existed. They say that the push2tv is compatible the screen mirroring of our Sammy's...but I haven't tried it. I know that the Google Chromecast adapter won't work unless you bounce it off a wifi network so don't try that. I believed the Best Buy guy and bought one...only way it would work in the truck is use the wifi on a laptop and tether it to my phone...which I already do with my bluray.

 

Here I'll really scare you.

Driver, we need you to do a walmart pop up for the next week.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....THUD

 

Well, I just found out the snackbar clan is officially a 1 income family again. My wife has been the coordinator for our local farmers market for the last 4 years. Not a big income, but her spending cash, gas money etc. The managers position changed hands late last year and the new manager heaped a bunch more work on my wife w/o a raise...so my wife was informed that this manager is on thin ice with the city and is on the verge of being terminated...so my wife, with the blessing of over half the city council, bid on the managers position...since she was doing most of her work anyway. She also informed the manager ahead of time that she was going to do this. Today she was fired as the coordinator. ..and probably not allowed to set up as a vendor either. Which is fine, the manager doesn't know poop from shineola about how to run the market...so she just cut her own throat and my wife gets a vacation...much needed I might add. Thankfully business is rolling here and we can just absorb it until the manager is excused and then my wife will be making all the money instead a piddly percentage...

 

We must have some new loaders in the warehouse. I have seen an increase lately of reloads and snafu's. Including this load. I got a later start than I planned, but still have more than enough time on the load to make the delivery. I hook up, air up and find a bad gladhand seal...so I replace the seal and finish checking out everything else. By the time I opened the door to check the load number and see where to set the tandems...being an older guy who can't remember what day it is....looked at the number, and thought it was right. Then I moved on, scaled out legal and pulled up to the guard gate. When the guard checked the number, she did the same thing I did...tried to remember the trip...but said "ok" and sealed the load...then, when we both got inside we realized that the number written on the plywood wasn't the same...sooo, I had to back up, do a u-turn and head back to shipping. And these guys were running around in circles because things have gotten so busy, and my request to verify my load didn't help. Turns out I had the right load, the loader just wrote down the wrong number on the back...which is good news because they were running short of open dock doors and out of loaders to reload.

I hope it stays this busy for a while, seeing all the empty trailers around there a month or so ago had me concerned a bit.