My 4 Month Review of Schuster

It’s loads like these that make me question my life’s choices lol. I took the load thinking I was picking up at 15:15 but blue bunny is saying no that’s the “dock time” and it’s gonna be closer to 5 or 6.SMH

 

Yeah, midnight deliveries throw me off for some reason and I have more time than I thought so I’m gonna complete my 34 and pickup between 02:00 and 04:00. I got myself worked up for nothing lol

 

Well midnight delivery didn’t hurt as much as I thought lol. I know I can be a crybaby about that stuff but that’s just me. I still do the job and get it done.

Honestly that’s been the hardest part of adjusting back to OTR is the appointment times can just suck sometimes for lack of a better word. Last 3 years I was driving a pack master garbage truck working Monday through Friday, 06:00 to 14:00 and it’s been hard to break that cycle for me but this is what I signed up for. I was making like 2800 to 3,000 a month doing that and inflation was just killing me so I came back OTR. Just wanted to put that out there.


Anyways, sometimes in trucking your the hammer and sometimes you’re the nail. I got a reload picking up 5 miles from Pittsburgh. Shipper has overnight parking but truckers path said there was truck parking at the casino next to the Steelers stadium. Yeah right, what a joke that was trying to go downtown.


So I got parked at the shipper and I don’t load till the AM so i decided to catch an uber and catch a Pittsburgh Pirates games. Sometimes you gotta take advantage of this job when you can. So I’ll get loaded in the AM and back to LeMars I go. Ice cream season is in full swing swing baby!!!

 

Now I’m just dealing with trying to get home. I requested to be home the fifth which is this upcoming Friday. I was told Thursday my home load leaves Monday. Sweet, I’m gonna get home early, so yesterday my load going to Le mars disappears and all of a sudden I’m picking up in de Pere and going to Sioux, so now im thinking ok, they must be setting me up for a pork load to go home with. I get to my pickup and i get “deliver load asap” “pickupnext one and swap at loves” deliver his load in Wisconsin” so I guess there goes my Monday pickup. I would’ve appreciated a phone call at least to me me know there was a change of plans. I know they have till Friday to get me home but I was already in cruise control and now they want me back going 1000 miles an hour again. Just always feels like the week before hometime has got be a #### show. After I just got done thinking how smooth this trip went because I stayed out seven weeks this time and the first six weren’t bad but now I’m just aggravated.

 

There definitely gonna get me home on time, I just checked out a littler early. Plus the traffic and construction up to De Pere sucked on top of it being almost 90 degrees so I had a short fuse yesterday.

I’m feeling bad now because my dispatcher was just trying to make me more money before I went home and now I’m wishing I ran those miles. Lesson learned, lol, calm down and take a breath and look at the big picture. That’s why we are out here to make money. Miles picked up big time for me and and I made some good money this round out.

 

The thing I hate most about the swaps is it’s another trip sheet I gotta figure out.