Millis OTR journal

I run whatever comes my way. Since it has been a major pain doing any amount of home time, just messed my rhythm and schedule up, I've just been out doing recaps. Sometimes a load requires me, or is routing me toward a terminal, where I'll run almost all 11 hours. Most days I try to run 8-9. In any case, unless I'm hitting a terminal, I want to be parking at the latest 4 pm.

So far I think I'm probably averaging 2700 miles per week, but that has been with some sneaking home for a day and rolling 62.

Most of my loads have been 500-700 miles. A few 200-300s. And probably 3 or 4 900+ including a1003 miler over this past weekend to save that week and then a 910 sandwiched between a 522 and a 640.

Next couple days I'll need to massage the 70 but not much.

Having fun. Fingers crossed the luck stays good. Only a couple tough places so far and only a few days of long load times or waits on dispatch.

If you take care of the clock and don't hut too many snags at customers, you'll still get good miles even with shorter loads thrown in.

 

What the hell? Now my trailer will smell like alcoholic ranch. Great. As if stale beer wasn't bad enough. Haha

 

I didn't know Blue Moon made it, too. I know Pabst has some and some friends say it's really good. I'm surprised I haven't hauled any of it yet.

I love the original Blue Moon Belgian wheat beer, but only when it's draft. Pasteurization kills the taste.

 

And use my phone while driving?

 

C'mon now, you know he is super famous! In his own mind anyhow lo . He was my "trainer" when I came to Millis. He told me before I got in his truck, "now, you have to able to handle a bunch of people running up to you. You know, when I pull into a yard people all want to come and talk to me because they all like my YouTube channel." ##### please, the whole time I was with him, two people talked to him! Lmao and my buddy bout beat his ### in a pickle park for waking him up. You know who you are, and now you know who I am lol.

 

it took me a year but I agree. I made a whopping 55.2 miles today lol. With the 6 hour wait in Memphis Monday and the 6 hour wait in Rochester for reload today has set me back pretty bad for the week. No worries, #### happens some weeks.

When I was on the Best Buy dedicated run last year, most runs were around 500 miles keeping in mind that you can’t sleep overnight with a Best Buy load. You delivered the load, deadheaded back to Dublin and grabbed another load. The only time you could take your 10 was when you were mt. You were basically running for Koch Bros but BRF dispatched you. Tom in BRF ran my butt off. Averaged 28 to 2900 miles per week and was home Fri night, back out at 0400 Mon morning. I made some jack on that gig but it was tough.

 

Yeah I remember reading your posts while you were on that gig and thought to myself "Mehhh that sounds too much like work."

 

I actually did that gig with my trainer in 2015. Worst part about it was we usually had to pass thru Atlanta twice for every load,out and back. Sometimes we went south into Florida. I know he cleaned house with that because we basically had 2 log books. Some of the store docks were a pain in the butt. When I went out on my own I was behind in the day to day stuff like scaling loads, sliding tandems etc...because I had not done it in so long.

Wonder if we are doing it this year. I thought about volunteering if they put it out there. Stay out of the bad weather for an extra month wouldn't hurt my feelings. Already tired of winter and it hasn't really started.

 

I won’t volunteer it again, that’s for #### sure. Twice I had to call ATL PD to help me get out in traffic. I’ll stay OTR thank ya very much.

 

You mean those courteous drivers there wouldn't let you in!?