Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Brrrrr, it was a balmy 18 degrees when I left the house (Arkansas) this morning. And, when I got to my truck (5 mins away), the #### door lock was frozen. I had to heat up my key with a cigarette lighter a couple of times and shove it in the hole to warm it up. lol

 

The guy parked next to me borrowed my hammer to see if he could get his frozen trailer brakes loosened up. He couldn’t.

 

On one super heavy load. Load was on our yard, and the scale ticket left says total weight is 79070 lbs with around 200 lbs over on steers. Driver wrote that was with full fuel tank so now I'm nursing a half tank the whole 800 remaining miles to keep my axle weights legal.

First fuel solution wanted me to go 40 miles North to get fuel which I found pointless cause that's 80 miles of wasted fuel by the time I make it back to square one, so ignored it and headed south on i-81.

I went 150 miles and send a fuel request. It comes back wanted me to head BACK north to the first fuel stop and fill up this time. No way in hel I'm doing that so I use reefer fuel to get going further. Another 120 miles and it finally letting me get fuel at the place I stopped at.

That program must not care about out of route miles when fuel is cheap somewhere cause that would of been over 300 miles if I did go back

 

I can just picture you opening the door and getting soaked waking the drivers next to you with your fit lol

 

And, of course, he wouldn’t get paid for those miles.