The rookie

Yea I had my first reload last week before I went home. Delivered in the morning and saw on my preassignment that they had me getting loaded with the same trailer I had dropped 15 minutes beforehand at the time I was supposed to drop it. But it was a dedicated tank so it all worked out

 

This morning has been real adventurous.. they’re doing construction on the street that the Chicago tank wash’s clean Lot is on so from looking from the street it appears to be blocked off. I saw my trailer before I went to sleep but it still needed to be cleaned and prepped. Woke up and it wasn’t in the front lot I thought oh sh- how am I going to grab this trailer... they carved a tight little snake path through another lot to get around. Fast forward 20 miles, an hour and 30 minutes later I arrive to a road that says do not enter so I google map it and I can see it from the satellite so that’s the correct ways just no signage at all.. Flagged down by a guy to find out to they’re all out of product.. whenever something changes in the assignment they always act like you were emailed personally. He’s like idek know why you here.. I’m like cause my Qualcomm says to be lol.. the good thing is they had me going all the way to the gurnee then turning around through all that traffic to work my way to Cleveland to deliver at 0900est

 

Today is another one of those days...I’m having a good day personally I’m not bothered. But yesterday got an assignment after the canceled one still had about 7 hours on my clock to move so I headed over to the calumet tank wash thinking I could grab my trailer beat the early morning Chicago traffic coming tomorrow and surprise couldn’t find my tank.. if you’ve been you’ll know why if it was you first time.. went in the office and was told they didn’t need the trailer until 12 midnight so it wouldn’t be prepped til then. Qualcomm say 89 miles (but you know how that goes) pickup Time was at 10 so I picked up my trailer at 630 thinking it would give me just enough time to clear Chicago traffic.. wrong updated eta to 11. Got into wisconsin was slowly moving along all of a sudden just as I was passing up exit 229 a guy on the cb says “229 is your last chance to get off or your gonna be parked for a while till they get this truck out of the ditch they got 3 wreckers and you’re not moving till 226”. Updated eta to 1 and as were were slowly crawling ahead “We got another one in the ditch at 229 watch the right lane as you come around. Free way got shut down for a bread moment had to take a nice country side detour. Finally got to my destination at 12 instead of 1. Pull in and was told it’ll be an hour and a half and they’ll be out... Guy finally comes out scales me and it’s one of those places where you pull your trailer into a garage bay drop it then pull out and do it behind closed doors. New problem was that i couldn’t get suspension to drop enough air for the legs to touch the ground in their bay.. luckily the guy is going to load it. Now it it’s currently 1450cst and I still have to finish getting loaded scales blah blah blah and make it around Chicago for a 1000est delivery time tomorrow.. and get fuel

 

Extremely fun load yesterday got to customer and was told they had to make room in their tanks before I could start unloading. Was told to relax for a min they’d be ready in about an hour, took them about 2. Guy had me hook and said I could start when I got the go ahead. So I asked is there a tank I could see so I know where I’m at? No it’s all handled form the control room .. So I got the go ahead to start and was told they opened the valves up inside which is weird cause the fill line has a valve too but I’m unloading for what seems like a record time of 4 hours at 20 psi and guy comes out like we shut the valve you should be done.. I’m like no my hose is still full of product. He’s like don’t worry about it .. like I can just take off without checking heel or a proper way to empty my hoses. So I open it up and it’s about 50-100 gallons left.. I said I can’t leave until I call some people that have to call other people and it’s a mess so see what you can do about opening that valve back up. “Oh, you got more than what’s on the paperwork which isn’t your fault”. Had to air up the trailer again which took another 20 mins then shot the rest through. It was weird that I was just shutdown mid unload. Also I was at the place for a full shift almost, had to head to Cincinnati right after and 2 miles before my exit an accident on 275, 4 cars and a police vehicle had the freeway to a crawl. I end up shutting down just in time to make my appointment for Today. Wanted to hook up to my trailer last night before I to sleep but they said it wasn’t cleaned yet because it had snot in it and the guy cleaning it poured the heel in the drain and clogged it so they was shutdown for 7 hours.

 

Been layed over at Schneider’s favorite Oc for the Past 4 days decided to turn it into a vacation and took a few trips to NYC, been to Times squares, top of the Empire State and down to the Statue