Finally got my own truck

Got a couple of partials today outta Iowa and Illinois both del 5 miles apart both window times. Got good money.

Posted truck in Memphis for tomorrow and got 3 or 4 calls. One gal from CHR wanted me to pickup tomorrow night and del in Houston Wed night. Told her she ain't gonna like my quote, but $1900. She said that ain't the highest she's heard, but she moved one at $1150. Lolwut? After I hung up with her I realized I had quoted too low anyway. Lol.

Another fella from a large carrier wanted me to go to Dallas, to a large retail warehouse. Told that guy over $3.50/mi. Too high but thanks.
Another guy from same carrier wanted to know if I'd pickup to go 300 miles south straight thru. Told that guy that honestly I'll be needing some revenue tomorrow...What do u think of $1100? He said that is a little too high, I asked couple more questions, then asked how high he could go, $900 was max, I told him I'd keep his number. Probably won't do that though. We'll see what happens tomorrow. I was looking to go further east for more revenue.

Hoping this week is good to me. I also can't wait to go home. I miss my dad and my siblings, niece and nephew. And TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT!!! My ping pong buddy and I are planning on one of our Saturday night practice sessions in his barn. BYOB. And I'm looking forward to taking my dad and my nephew out to a nice steak dinner. I miss them all. 8 weeks...But what an 8 weeks it's been. How much I've learned! And still have to learn!

Once you get to start thinking about home, you can't stop and it's hard to leave when you've been home. One of the reasons I committed to staying out this long, because I didn't want to keep thinking about taking time off when I have a truck to start paying for.

Goodnight, ttr.

 

Well how dare you cheerlead!

This week is going okay so far. Ended up in Greenville, SC and tried to hold out for big $$$ but it just wasn't happening. Finally someone gave me barely what I needed on a short 250 mile run. A large carrier. Arrived at shipper just in time.

There was a load going to Dothan, AL 350 miles, they didn't want to pay $980 like I wanted. Went down to $930, nope but we'll write down your number and call you if we need you.

2 hours later, at 3:30pm when they were getting desperate, they called back and offered $850, which was still low for me. Sorry, already booked.


Ill be in KY and was planning to go home Friday - BUT I might take another trip down to Memphis and see if I can grab a load to MI from there to deliver Monday. Want to keep this week going while it's halfway decent.

One thin that irks me, is when a receiver leaves a mess.

Yeah we'll just take out the 99% of what we need, and leave a bunch of broker pallets, or couple hundred grains of rice just lying all over and we'll let you clean it up. Oh, and we'll forget to put your push broom back in your trailer while we're at it. Or your load bar. Or your strap. Or all #### 3 of them!