Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

Hah.

 

Found a nice sticker to put on the side of my truck.

 

Well. Delivered into Irving, TX today, dropped the load, and couldn't find my outbound loaded trailer.

Cruised the whole warehouse, docks and yard, a second time while on hold waiting for dispatch.

Dispatch answered. Asked them for GPS location of the trailer # on this load. It's in Nebraska.

Verified all load assignment data. Load # trailer # pickup # BOL #.

Called shipper. They have no reference at all for the pickup # or BOL #.

So I managed a piss-poor 450 mile day, and will have to navigate out of Dallas tomorrow AM during Monday Rush hour, instead of Sunday afternoon traffic. With the Coronavirus thing, traffic will hopefully not be terrible.

That is, provided either my current load can be fixed, or I get a new load.

 

We shall see. Dallas can be pretty messed up, though normally not as bad as Chicago or LA.

Even with the virus thing going on, I still expect traffic in the AM.

 

Nope. It was a light day in the Dallas / Fort Worth construction insanity zone. There were only half a dozen people that made multiple lane changes after passing me in construction zones so they could exit 100 or so feet in front of me.

 

So. Arrived at my final last night. Dropped load no problem. Outgoing load was not ready, so the day turned to meh with only 500 miles driven instead of 600+.

This morning, woke up, and practiced twiddling my fingers for six hours because this load is a 400 mile load, live load, delivering at 2300 tonight. Yay. Love flipping my sleep schedule.

Started my clock, picked up the load. BOL says 45,054 lbs gross, 62 pallets, going from IL through IN, to KY. IN has a 43 foot kingpin rule. King to center of rear axle.

Scaled the load. As expected, it was a hell-no load. 35,780 on the tandems at max legal separation for IN.

Returned the load for rework a couple hours ago. Still sitting here in my assigned door, untouched. Need to be 400 miles from here in a bit over six hours, to a McLane facility. Not happening, and McLane is not late-friendly, so the tard is going to roll over to the next day, I'm sure.

Ah well. Apparently the DC to DC and Production to DC loads are starting to slow down, so I will likely be getting more garbage/live loads until this Covid crap is over and done with.