An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I might have the 34 hour flu if one is sent to me. There are plenty of jobs hauling crap like that around the house, there is no need for a OTR driver to get stuck on a load like that.

 

Not headed to the yard. I messaged my travel agent this morning and gave him an update on my hours. Said I would have 14-15 hours on my 70 once I was empty, so if they had a load I could deliver before the end of the pay period that had the option of doing a 34 enroute, I could manage that. May as well burn the hours I have before resetting. I try to give them options when I am up in this area since freight can be hit and miss...so now I pick up in SeaTac tomorrow and deliver in Goodyear AZ by Friday.

 

@kylefitzy, is there a limit to how many receipts for paid parking they'll reimburse on one load(a legal load, not a permit load)? Because of the pickup date and time (and the fact that nobody could find a working number for my pickup cuatomer's location) I ended up heading to North Bend and paying for parking before loading. Now, because they have a 14:00 pu time on the load, in order to get this delivered with enough time to find parking, I am gonna have to run late into the night tonight and do a 34 (only pick up 5.5 hours tomorrow night) then run some vampire shift to get to the delivery. Which means at least one more reserved spot...maybe 2 because I am running thru the woods between Twin Falls and Vegas.

 

Made it to Mountain Home a little after midnight logbook time. No regular spots available so I backed into one of the paid spots then went and talked to the guy at the fuel desk. I noticed that only 1 truck in the paid section had a receipt in the window out of the dozen or so that were parked there. When I asked, he said that there were only 2 people working in the truckstop overnight, and Flying Peelot's rules for checking the trucks in the lot for receipts require a 2 person team for safety, so nobody would be checking until the next days reservation time...so I went back out to the truck to catch some zzzzz's, about the time I was getting my jammies on, a truck pulled out of the regular spots...so I took his spot so I can do a 34 without any issues. Sometimes a blind squirrel does find a nut. Oh, and I checked the trip odometer that I reset every hometime. I left home last Wednesday, by last night (Tuesday) it had registered 4007 miles in 7 days and I still have 3.01 left on my 70.

 

Yeah, it is starting to look like the company you told me about before I decided to come onboard. If freight, and the current level of Wylie involvement continues like it is, I won't have much to gripe about...(I'm sure I'll find something), but it is great being tired from running hard.