Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Back to the creefer.

After morning failed to get with me I contacted them and finally got my load out of the house.

Empty trailer exactly where they said it was so that means bad luck for the week cause I used up the good already.

Preload at a Unilever headed to Safeway in Denvor for a live. Only ever delivered to 1 Safeway and that was in California and took 15 hours from time I arrived to time I was handed paperwork to leave. Hopefully not as long there but it's a Safeway so no promises.

Longest run I ever did in over 6 weeks at 1000 miles. Was half expecting a 400 or 500 mile run since that's what I always got with a full 70 the last month.

 

Safeway in Denver is nowhere near that time by the way… The one in California you’re talking about is Tracy there notorious for extensive delays

 

I've had more 1000+ mile loads in the last couple months than I've had in a long time. Usually they are OK, but sometimes long loads have a day too much time on them. I've been fortunate the last 2-3 months of getting good productive loads for the most part. They've definitely kept me moving.

 

Updat#2

Sat there 40 hours. 1430 Saturday to 0630 Monday.

Never again.

Had a discussion with my AM and he got me taken off that. Now I got 2 back to back 500 mile runs TX to KS then to TN. From TN, gonna get load home supposedly.

Gonna hv a few words with my terminal Mgr about setting at customers for 40 hours with no concern from weekend ops at about that and my future here. Been a long time since I've had an issue like that but I think I see it happening again soon as the quality of weekend ops dwindles.

 

I asked for the ops mgr for shaffer email address this morning in Wilmer so i could email my concerns and whatnot as to what’s going on here lately and they refused to give it saying it’s better to call him ..they want nothing on record of issues from drivers evidently..

 

Maybe I should stay in the private fleet life lol I was considering Crete because of the pay, but it seems like that's getting less and less lately

 

In honor of SSBs new job I took a skateboard load to Terre Haute Indiana today. Felt special. LOL

 

Went from nothing but short hauls to suddenly big load back to back. Maybe these were the long runs fir helping out that one time.

Current run a 1100 mile run, pu Monday 11pm and is a live for 630am on Wednesday.

Load I got sent right before dm shift change, is a high priority pu 5am on Wednesday at JBS going to Oakland for a 10am live at the port on Friday.

1300 mile run BUT no way for me to do it cause I'm going to be out of hours after I get unloaded at Safeway.

Snack would probably commit on the msg sent since it says to be there by the 19th to do a 10 before picking up yet current load won't deliver till the 20th.

Declined load sadly.

Complet 180...

Going from 500 mile runs with 24 hour or even 2 day delivery windows to tight loads requiring 600+ a day to make.

 

Still heading to Oakland. Delivery just changed to a 4pm delivery instead of 10am.

Never delivered to Oakland port. Let's see how this goes.


Edit
People in dispatch not reading load info lol

In the 6 msg I woke up to, the last was from someone I don't know saying I can pu an empty in Cheyenne for my next load.

Current load is a live...I'm not going to need an empty lol.