Stevens Transport aviary

Depending on how things go, alot of us who got out of OR1/OR2 may still be at the Am-Best come Sunday...
So perhaps we'll see you.

 

I'll say hello next week if you're still there. Time for me to be routed back to Dallas for my quarterly blood pressure test.

 

Good evening all from the Great and wonderful Amarillo TX....just passing through, well kinda of...out of hours, repowered my Cheshire CT load to a team, I have never delivered a load to Cheshire, picked up many though. Now on a load to San Antonio for Monday morning. So I will spend Saturday in Amarillo, to get hours back, then Sunday roll on down, for my delivery.

Anybody running 287 from Texas to Colorado, be prepared for lots of construction and one lane roads, and 15 minute waits.

 

Every time I start to think my days are tough, I just come over to this page and read it.
Then I realize pulling a flatbed is a piece of cake!

 

Hey KCJ...Sorry I haven't answered your pm's. I don't have enough post to reply to them...Just went by Hillard a few mnts ago...

 

I had a wonderful Monday...Made my delivery north of San Antonio at 7am, then waited for dispatch. Get dispatched at 10am. Got sent to a Tyson plant in Seguin TX, about 20 miles east. load assignment has a 7 am appt, and no dld. hmmm.... Head over, check in, and the guard says I will see you at 4am tomorrow for this load. I sure hope not, as it is due in chicago on Thursday morning 8am, 1200 miles away. drop my trailer, check in, get told it will be after 7pm before we even start to load.

oh well, I am well rested, so I go and park in a corner over some grass and weeds, upwind from the plant. enjoy some daytime TV, can't sleep. Check with shipping at 7pm, trailer is in door, but that is it. Oh well watch some more tv, go to sleep. They will call me when the load is ready, so they say. Wake up naturally at 3:30am. walk over, the trailer has coded, reset the codes, walk inside, find the shipping lady and ask. Yes the trailer is loaded, just waiting for the plant to clear all the product. The plant is on break, but she checks the computer, and low and behold the product is clear, she prints out the invoice, I hook up, shut the doors, and wait for the trailer to cool down, went into defrost for 20 minutes, but then started cooling.

Send in my loaded and rolling, at 4:15 am, running late and repower request. I don't trust tyson scales anymore....head over to a pilot, scale out, I am good, and head north. Plan on Making Big Cabin OK for the day, but the repower is set up for muskogee OK.

Swap trailers, mine going to Laredo for Thursday, too much time, but I am told I can drop it early. Okay. Check the trailer out, and find a massive air leak on the NEW abs air valve. The other driver knew about it, but just kept on rolling. well I am now on Breakdown, no air valve on the trailer, and may be here for a day while a new air valve is found. The mechanic thinks he can find one around the area. Some days it just does not pay to get out of bed, (yesterday, a whole 46 miles). Some trainers really need to start doing their jobs correctly.

 

I know the feeling about the trailer. Did a repower outside DesMoine the other day and found trailer tail lights out, expired regs. Took half day to get fixed. Had delivery in Chicago at 6am the next morning. Had to drive all night to make it (with half hour to spare).
Still fuming over the other driver's comment on the trailer: "Oh, I never check those things. I don't want to lose any time waiting for road rescue".

 

Please make a big stink about that other driver to safety about the abs valve and running with it. That other driver is using your logbook to fix his problems. I've learned to pretrip the trailer now while its still connected to the other truck. IF the trailer isn't safe, then I refuse the repower until that driver has it fixed. There's no reason he should be able to get away with that.

Yes you've swerved into one of my biggest pet peeves.