New Tanker Yanker Here

Thanks guys! No time to give detailed replies cause it's time to roll but I will reply & also update when I stop later tonight! Gotta deliver this load then take the trailer to Chicago to the tank wash. Safe travels!

 

Man today was not a Pleasant one! Oh my where do I start. So I wake up this morning I'm an hour away from the receiver. I head there & when I'm like within the last few miles I miss my turn! Dang it! So I had to fight some St. Louis traffic to get turned around. So 30 minutes later I'm back in route & I make my turn on the street. I see a neighbor hood but nothing in my head clicked to say "Hey maybe we shouldn't be going this way". I mean after all the Qualcomm is routing me this way so it has to be the RIGHT Way! LOL. I soon find this to be so untrue. I get on this neighbor hood street & when I tell you it's tight as idk what! There were cars parked on both sides of the street like as if you were in a downtown area. There was also so tree cutter guys cutting trees with their lil man lift truck on the road. I couldn't see this before I went into the neighborhood be cause it was an angle you had to make to get in there. So once I see all this all I could think in my head was "well I'm F*****!" Then to make matters worse people start gathering outside & just staring & complaining at me. All I hear is "You DONT belong here!" "This road is NOT for your trucks!" "Back up & get out of here!" "Are you stupid or something?" My nerves were BAD BAD!! I was almost about to start cursing everyone out & shut the hell up. All I couldn't think in my head was man I'm F*****! I was thinging maybe I should call the police & have them escort me out because no way could I have backed up by myself, for one my backing stinks & for 2 the roads were too narrow. So I didn't end up calling them but a few neighbors started to move their cars out of the way. The tree trimmer guys also moved their truck closer to the curb which was too much help. I was able to squeeze & I do mean SQUEEZE through the neighbor hood just barely. I mean I may have had a foot between my truck & some of the other parked cars on side the road on each side. Man I was SO NERVOUS! All I could think was please don't hit anything! The street wasn't that long & I mean the small little "plant" if that's what you want to call it was literally 30 seconds from when you exit the neighborhood. I'm so glad I didn't have to Go a long distance. So I finally get there & the customer unloads the product. I leave to check out with the guard & she gives me a map (highlighted Google map) with how to exit out. She told me "oh we've been doing this 30 years". So I followed the map, it took you behind the neighborhood which was right by a railroad track & when I saw the road & instantly thought to myself "Man I'm pretty sure a truck should NOT be on this road"! But after all the customer lady gave me the map & assured me it's been done for "30 years" so this MUST be the right way to go right? WRONG! I creep & creep & creep truck leaning to the side, which I'm glad I was empty cause had I been loaded I probably would have rolled over. I get to the end of the street to a stop sign & this man comes running outside aggressively & comes to my truck & says "WTF!" "YOU DONT BELONG HERE!" "THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY!" "I'm sick of you dang trucks tearing up my concrete back here!" I give all you truckers ONE warning the next time I'm calling DOT! I just simply apologized to him & said my bad I was given directions to come this way, sorry for the misunderstanding but WONT happen again because I'm not bring my Black behind back to St. Louis no more ! I was so dang frustrated man. I'm thinking in my head that if she had been telling people to take this route for "30 years" or so she says then why in the hell was this such a surprise to the people here???. Man I hauled butt to get out of St. Louis! Headed to Chicago to drop my empty trailer to be cleaned at the Qualawash. I had to sit thru Chicago traffic, so I'm sure some of you know how fun that is. Now I've made it to the Qualawash with no time left on my clock so I'm staying here for the night. Can you say MISERIBLE! From now on I will definitely start trip planning because had I trip planned this would NOT have been a surprise to me & probably could have been avoided. Had I used google maps satellite view to see where I was delivering to I would have seen this. NEVER AGAIN! I will use google maps from now on to get a good visual where I am going & how I should enter then I will check this back to the Qualcomm as well as a MAP! I found out the HARD way but I will definitely NOT be putting all of my trust into that Qualcomm anymore, which I shouldn't have from the beginning. I appreciate all the advice you guys give me & believe me I will be taking it. I'm new in the game & im still learning so it's a process. But I appreciate all of you who follow & give me advice on my journey! Thanks for listening!