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

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  1. 201773

    201773 Medium Load Member

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    Sounds like they should have sent you to Donora first then Ravenswood.
     
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  3. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    And the 2 delivery customers are KS then OK (and I will probably be sent to the Wichita area after I am empty).
     
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    Got a load of windows to Marquette once. Very beautiful up there.
     
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  5. supersnackbar

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    I couldn't afford that. The reason I am staying out that long is because after their pay package change, it has me making about the same takehome as many regional jobs pay, so 2 weeks without pay would seriously put me more behind last years earnings than I already am.

    Right now, the ONLY reason I am staying is to keep my health insurance. My wife thought when they changed her prescription for the diabetes sensors she uses to a mail delivery instead of a pharmacy pickup that they'd be a little cheaper...they sent her 8 so far and just now sent her the bill(for $600). Turns out, those are $75 ea. co-pay, and she uses 2 a month. Without insurance they're more than twice that much per unit, so 2 of those per month would cost us around $325/month without insurance. Not to mention all the other prescriptions she has, without insurance we are talking over $1200/month. Honestly, about the only thing I can afford to do is die because I have almost $750k in life insurance, and we've already prepaid for the toaster oven to roast my ###, so that would set her up for a long time financially.
     
  6. supersnackbar

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    14k, but that was my best month of the year. Right now, last month's miles put my average per month just over 10.5k which is well below last year. As hard as I run, staying out 8-10 weeks I should be averaging 12k/month.
     
  7. supersnackbar

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    Got loaded without a problem this morning. I purposely delayed a little. They open at 0600, but as confused as they sounded yesterday, I figured I would get there between 7 and 8 since nobody is in any of our offices until Toledo comes in at 8, just in case there was another issue, but none appeared. It took all of 10 minutes to load (3 10' x 4' x 1' pallets of sheet titanium) Managed to make it to the Love's on I-70 in western IL. Planning on getting to the Joplin area tomorrow and doing a 34. The first delivery customer is like 65 miles from there. I already called my travel agent and politely asked that he message the planner and request that whatever I am assigned delivers or drops before the end of the pay period...a load from Park City to the exporter in Rancho Dominguez would be perfect...or a load going into western Canada that I drop on the Arlington yard would also help overcome all this downtime a little bit.
     
  8. Modlite11

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    With as many fellow FCCers in your thread as you come into ours… I know you say you have your reasons against it. Just an outsiders opinion.
     
  9. kylefitzy

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    Seems like a reasonable request. Just dropped a wing in Canada and now I’m heading towards the house for a night. This trip was honestly kind of ####ed. 3 different times we were routed to roads under heavy enough construction that we couldn’t fit on our detour routes. Last trip we had to different sections of several miles of cones that had to be “adjusted” after we went through on our state prescribed route.

    thankfully all the construction we were detouring around was night time construction and we were able to skip the detours. One would ask why the state would send us down a skinny two lane that we had no shot of making it to because the first turn off the ramp was 1/2 torn out for repaving, to avoid night construction when we can’t travel at night.

    anyway on to the next one, it might be a big ugly one. 16’4” tall, 14’ wide, 55’ long. And it has to be tarped. Maybe? No one can tell me why a painted piece of steel that will live the rest of it life outside in the oil field has to be tarped. I’m bringing the big
     
  10. supersnackbar

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    That's why I stopped hauling OD loads. On top of all the other frustrations, I don't need more frustrations coming from the state's inept routing department. Plus, I am a slow-arse tarping a legal load, could you imagine how I would be tarping a OD load...not to mention how it would mess with curfew time limits....no thank you...I'll just be content pulling my boring legal loads

    Sounds like your next load's manufacturer is a division of the same Canadian company that makes sawmill equipment in Spokane Valley
     
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  11. supersnackbar

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    Indiana I-70 strikes again. Got up this morning and did my morning walk around and discovered that the bolts that hold my APU's exhaust to that flimsy side case went MIA, so my exhaust was dragging the ground (yes, I missed that on my post trip, I just checked my straps and tarps, made sure I didn't have any flats or fluid leaks and ordered a pizza from Godfather's). I am surprised I didn't have a flat because I use to have a generic curved exhaust tip on it, wbich is now gone. So now I have a rachet strap around the case holding the exhaust off the ground. Since it didn't cost me any downtime, I won't count this as strike 3 on the "I'm outta here" count.
     
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