Good Night From II

In Las Vegas to attend orientation for a local gig in Phoenix. New employer paid for a airline ticket and put me up @ The South Point.

 

jurupa terminal.
Tcalled that load here.
parking here is an adventure.
parked trailer very end of one row.
made sure others can get by.
no bobtail spots available. had to park at a curb.
dl said a local driver got sprayed by a skunk early this morning, so be careful
walking around.
never seen or smelled one here b4.
did laundry this morning and hanging out in truck rest of my day off

 

Bismark, ND.

I got here yesterday afternoon with no pplan, and still nothing this morning.
This is out of the GLR area so load offers are a bit thin for me, but my DM found me a nice 1300 mile run to MO.
Too much time on it and it doesn't pick up until tomorrow so I am getting a 34 in.
She failed to notice the extra time on the load when she sent it to me and I'll be getting some layover pay as well.

Since it doesn't deliver until Monday this week will be very low miles. But next week will make up for it.

 

misquote nv at flying j.
got to beaver ut and switched loads.
then came back here for the nite.
went to use resetrooms and they are closed due to a broken water pipe
asked a worker if it would be fixed in the morning. he said hopefully.
need a shower lol.
if not here I will go to Barstow and get o e thete tomorrow
then back to jurupa terminal.
load delivers in city of industry at 1230 Tuesday.
texted my dl if I was tcalling it and he hasn't responded yet.
a tcall is o the dispatch but that was a Denver planner putting it on.
most likely my.dl will remove it as soon as he sees it.
gonna be fun finding a parking spot at terminal
they are in the holiday mode with all the trailers there

be like this till the new year now

 

Forestell, MO at the TA.

I was sent to repower a load today.

I had to be bobtail so I was sent 126 miles to drop my empty.

The driver had been in an accident and pretty much totaled the truck, but they said the trailer seemed OK. The shipper wants it back to inspect the cargo, so that is my destination.

When I got there the trailer was too low for me to get under it. Very little luck cranking the landing gear so I called my DM, who sent a message to CSR who, after 45 minutes, said to call on road to get some help from the tow people.
They managed to get it up enough for me to get under it, but then I could not get the fifth wheel to lock.
The other driver had installed a kingpin lock. (I wonder... WHY???)
That had to be cut off with a torch.

When I finally got hooked to it and pulled it forward enough to get around back I found the other drivers' enforcer lock still installed, and a flat tire.

The other driver did not leave the BOL or a scale ticket, and the load is said to be 43k.

When I got here I scaled the load, and with a gross weight of 79,720 it is much more than 43k.
40,020 of it was on the drive tires, and I can only move the tandems forward 7 holes. So that will still leave me over 36k on the drives.
The load may have shifted in the accident. The sides in the forward third of the trailer are bulging out a bit.
But shifted that much?

Looks like I'm not moving until something is figured out by other people.

 

They really wanted to get that overweight load back to the shipper, but they were not going to force me to run with it.
I was told if I decided to take it back to the shipper Swift would pay any fines if I got caught, or I could bring it to the drop yard in E. St. Louis, IL.
There would be at least one weight station in either case, but I could get around the one on the way to the drop lot. (Turns out that one was closed, which I could see before I got back on I-70.)

I decided it wasn't worth the risk since I would get points if I got caught, so I brought it to the drop yard.
I'm glad to be rid of that load. It was still nearly 38,500 pounds after sliding the tandems all the way forward.

 

Good call on your part. It was not worth the risk of being caught overweight or problems with the load possibly shifted from the accident.

 

My luck with trailers this week is none too good.

First the overweight fiasco the other day, then yesterday I blew a trailer tire.
Luckily I was near a Pilot with a shop so it didn't take too long.

I delivered a load to the Home Depot in Chaska, MN this afternoon.
The tandems were all the way back on the trailer I swapped out for, and they would not budge.
I could not drive with it because none of the pins were engaged, so a repair truck had to be sent.
This guy did pretty much everything he could think of to get it free, and the final trick was to hook a chain between his repair van and the tandems. After a few tries he tugged it free.
Now he is repairing the slight damage he caused while fixing the problem.

The person that dropped it had really whacked it hard when they slid the tandems. It wedged everything tight.

That is 3 trailer problems this week.
Is it over, for a while?
I do hope so.

 

What a day, what a day.

Nothing really bad happened today, except half way to getting to my pick up it was voided.
No biggie, since I was on the way to pick up an mt for a Costco load out of Morris, IL, 400 miles empty from MN.
400 miles empty for a 160 mile loaded run. It seems someone wants to keep me on these Costco loads.

I'm in Cedar Rapids, IA, after picking up my mt.
My DM deadheaded me to Morris because there are no loads here, so I can expect another Costco load.
Probably right back up to the Minneapolis area.

People keep asking me to take a dedicated from the new Costco DC in Owatonna, MN.
Doing local I could be home every day, or otherwise and do things further out.
I simply don't want it, as I keep telling them.
Regional is limiting enough, and I will not do dedicated of any kind.

It may end up with me getting out of the GLR and back to OTR to end this endless thing with Costco in this area.

 

my truck has to get it's bit and a service done. truck is about to get turned back to.phwonix pretty soon since it has 547800 new.
so got into a 2020 freightliner.
not fun moving my stuff in 100 degree weather.
took al.kst 3 hrs just to empty teuck and put it all I this one.
too tired and sore to try and put stuff away.
so it will be. a mess for a few days.
one more trip and then a day off.