The Old Man's career dries up, Snackbar transfers to Crete from Shaffer

Found an empty just fine at the Wally DC this morning. Didn't really get into much of a hurry because my load wasn't supposed to be ready until 11, but when they assigned my empty to my truck and I got the load info, it already had a trailer number assigned. Got up there around 9 and it was just sitting there waiting for me. I only had a grand total of 9:32 when I started my PTI this morning, and I had to fuel at the Love's in Green River, but even with this nose heavy load and all the hills I had to climb, I managed to make it to the Love's in Laramie with 5 min left on my 70. I get 11:03 back tonight and 9:43 back tomorrow, and I am only 1000 miles from my customer. So delivery won't be an issue unless some catastrophic event snarls traffic. I am skirting around DFW, so there is a distinct possibility of that. We shall see

 

Got my load dropped finally. The receiver has you check in on one side of the building (with one of those intercom that sounds like it's a speaker phone). You get your bills signed and then they send you back out and in another gate on the opposite side of the building with another intercom. But, as my luck goes that chain on the roller gate was so slack, it jammed and wouldn't open. Took about 15 min to get it to open so I could drop the trailer. Dispatch told me to bobtail out to pick up my next load in Waco. I get to the customer and there are about 50 or so trucks waiting to check in (Graphic Packaging), so, here I sit waiting to get in the gate, and I can't see the end of the line behind me. This load gives me enough time to do a reset and deliver Tuesday morning north of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Then, before the Walmart dedicated people could ask me to help again, my dispatcher got me set up on a load out of MN going back to the Houston area. I like my A/M!!!!