Happy Thanksgiving, time to go home

Wasted time last night on a big money 500 mile outbound from home scheduled to deliver at 2pm today. I knew it would be legit to get delivered today without checking. Stupid shipper burned 4 hours loading last night so no way I was making that scheduled delivery. In reefer world you don't miss scheduled delivery times, especially just before a major holiday.

They had 90% of it picked and palletized on the truck. So off the truck it came when I told them what the deal was and I wasn't signing for the freight anymore. I had already warned them an hour prior. They grumbled somebody would be paying charges for unloading it and breaking it down. I told them I don't have any money just contact the broker (and thought to myself good luck getting this brokerage on the phone lol). They mentioned something how it was a missed Monday pickup. Typical broker (a real stretch here calling **** a broker) scenario here where they tried to cover it on a garbage rate for 2 days now some big brand pizza chain is gonna have shortages (supply chain issues) before this holiday weekend's football games lol.

Last time I booked one from them several years ago nearly the same thing happened. I knew I should have passed on the load. Could've used the money tho. Here's the one little scenario where I wish I was still on paper logs because I would've rolled on down the road with this load and no-one the wiser.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

This right here is why I do line haul now. I don't have to run outlaw anymore^^^^^^^

 

Yep you would have been camped on that until Monday.

 

If he was lucky.

 

I got just enough to do to keep me out of trouble .
Unloaded in Troy Ohio last night from lemars ia .
Grab a preloaded trailer in trenton oh later today going to soiux city for Friday, then down to Columbus Nebraska to drop and hook and be back in Indianapolis Monday morning.

 

I’ve done something similar. I was docked for 4 hours and they still didn’t start loading so I canceled the load and took off. It was impossible to make delivery on time and receiver has a $100 and $250 delivery late fee. Load only went 66 miles. F that.

 

I was prepared from days. Walmart delivery this morning at 5:30, I was there at 4:50, done at 7 am. Just
40 miles from home. At 8 am I was a free man at least until the end of the week.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

 

I saw on Mutha Trucker that Walmart is supposedly chasing drivers out if they arrive earlier than their appointment.
BUT, always consider the source of information, right?

 

Happy Thanksgiving