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

Texas has me going out and around the Sweetwater area again. I wonder if there is something between Big Spring and Abilene that even a 10' wide load can't fit thru. I do have authorization to run at night in TX, but only on the interstate. The out and around routing between those places runs me on state routes, a county road and U.S. routes. But since I can't run thru Alablama on Sunday, it doesn't matter because I have plenty of time to make Toomsuba by early tomorrow afternoon and wait for the curfew to be over and wait for my remaining permits to be pulled on Monday.

 

Even though I get paid hub miles for OD loads, it's just a PITA and a PITB(Pain in the back) because TX backroads are rougher than their interstates, especially this OD route because of all the oil well equipment getting routed that way. On the way out to Cali I got behind a 12 axle who probably grossed 175-200k lbs and behind us was several of those natural gas industrial compressors along with the companion cooling units that are, I am guessing, 10' tall. Those roads are torn to shreads. I am glad I am hanging up the OD stuff after this load.

 

They'll never catch these guys




Here come the Mummies are over 5000 years old and still kickin' it

 

Ok, I took @kylefitzy advice and compared my daily rate pay plan that I am being forced off of to the mileage plan that I am being forced on to. The new one is slightly different than the current one that is ending at the end of this month. The old mileage pay.and daily rate plans paid a safety/performance bonus of $0.05/mile for ALL paid/dispatched miles where the new one pays between $0.01-0.04 depending on your monthly paid miles starting at 9600 miles(pays $0.01/1000 miles over 8600, so you don't make any bonus between 8600 and 9599 miles). Plus, my current tarp pay is $100, with no extra pay when I have multiple stops where I have to untarp and retarp. The new pay package pays $50 to tarp and $10 per stop to untarp and retarp. My current extra stop pay is $15/stop not counting 1st pick and last delivery, the new pay is $20 for the same thing.

The differences

I calculated this with this years work, so if 2024 is similar, then I will have similar results

I would lose $3453 on the bonus/productivity pay with the new package

I would lose $900 in initial tarp pay

I would gain $215 in stop pay

I would gain $150 in extra stop tarp pay

My gross mileage pay at $0.65/mile on the new system would be $82,600
Don't have the energy to count my days on the daily pay but bottom line is, on my old pay package I will be around $92,600.

On the new pay package I would have been $87,030...

so, this new system is going to cut my pay by almost $5000 (I say almost because I didn't add in the extra OD mileage pay to the mileage on the new package, so that would have brought it up $4-500 I estimate)...so this new pay package is giving me another Wylie bend-over dry ####...and my ### was just getting over the last one from 3 years ago. #### Wylie!!!!!!