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

Big loads moving out ahead of the storm

 

Maybe this is why I saw this guy is on Fox News now rather than The Weather Channel

 

Still haven't gotten a load yet. With the weather that is incoming, I doubt I load anything around here. The outer bands are starting to spiral in, so it's downhill from here. Told dispatch that if they don't find something by 12:30, I am headed west past I-95.

There has already been one weather related fatality accident with a semi in FL. Driver lost control, went over a guard rail and into a canal. Divers recovered the body sometime later.

 

Talked to dispatch, they had a load, but it requires risers...which Arlington decided to have removed from most of these stepdecks...so I suggested they check the Ravenel yard to see if any trailers there would either have risers or a conestoga flatbed. He said with Toledo out of the office today, he would have to check with the others in Arlington, so now I sit a little longer.

 

Got out of Charleston and up 95 to Summerton, SC. Fired up the APU and it started, but the generator isn't generating properly. I have a small room fan connected to the generator plug to help circulate air to the front of the truck. It spins so slow I can count the resolutions and no a/c fan. You can hear the condenser fan cycle, just no inside fan. I may just deadhead home and throw in the towel. I have never worked so hard to end up this broke. When they switched me off the daily rate plan, I should have packed my bags and left then rather than slowly draining my savings working harder for less money.

 

But my company's VP proclaimed that I would be making more on the per mile plan they forced me on to (even after I showed him the numbers and proved that claim wrong). One thing I can't stand is a liar. You got bad news, spill it...but don't lie about it. Now my respect and trust for this Wylie wannabe is shot. He'll fit right in as a Wylie exec.

 

Called breakdown about the APU, he said it is most likely a generator capacitor failed. Had me run up to Columbia so I can have Carrier look at it in the morning. Hopefully it's a quick fix because they put me on a 2800 mile hazmat load to WA. Fortunately I know how to keep my truck running so I can have some a/c. Management is just gonna have to forgive a night of idling (and the driver across from me will have to excuse my headlights being on.