Good Night From II

wondered where you were lol

hopefully everything goes smoothly.

 

Good Luck with all that FW.

 

Congrats ... You going to be running your own numbers or leasing on?

 

At first we will be leasing on with Diamond Transportation. But once we get the company built a little we are going to get our own authority. Which they allow you to do private hauls on top of everything even with thier trailer, they will even factor for you if you do, for a small cut of course.

But we have plans at some point to get our own RGNs, but thats a year+ plan. So far on the back burner not worth mentioning yet. But the Authority we plan on arranging in the next 6months to a year.

 

Im equal parts excited to be going forward with this, and equal parts want to vomit.

 

That's what taking a giant leap of faith does to you.

Faith...
Is the Bridge between Ignorance and Knowledge.
(Well, that is my own personal definition of faith.)

A 'good' intuition also helps a bit.

 

And I'm here at the TA in Morris, IL with a new IKEA load going to the same place as last time.
This time with a 0600 appointment instead of 0400. I like that a LOT better.
That IKEA got rid of all the Knight drivers and will only use Swift now, even though some of our people tear up their property because they try to go in the wrong way.
Better and more accurate QC instructions would go a long way to improve that.
Turn RIGHT, not left like your GPS is telling you! Simple. Or just look for the signs?

Those Knight people would come in late and/or drunk, I've been told.

My sister opens that day, so I should be able to hang out long enough to get those plastic plates I left in her car on my last home time visit.

 

How do all but one bolt go missing from a trailer mud flap bracket bar?

Everything began normally when I left the TA in Morris, but about 20 miles later I see a mud flap kind of flapping.
When I pulled into the Love's just before I-39 I found only one bolt holding things on.
There is no shop there and the only thing I could find to hold that side up was a metal seal.
It lasted a bit and then broke.
The TA in Janesville had the bolts I needed to fix it properly.

 

someone tried to steal it?

 

Not sure.

Nothing was dragging until later.
Maybe someone needed a couple nuts?

Maybe not the strangest thing I have run across, but it is in the top two I'm sure.
I'm glad that last bolt held, or there would have been a couple mud flaps attached to a 7 foot bar skidding along the highway.

Another odd thing...
The first time a car pulled up next to me pointing back there, just after I noticed it.
The second time a truck did the same thing just before I pulled in to the TA for the bolts.
Several cops passed me during those times, and nothing from them.