Should be starting Roehl in late February

Back on the road today. Sitting at a wharehouse in Greensburg, PA listening to the rain tapping the roof. The unloading folks don't show up until 4:00 am so not much I can do until the morning as nothing real close to go to. The drive up here wasn't too bad until I hit WV 857. They are building a better road to the border but it ain't finished so had to deal with some pretty serious switchback turns and then a hell of a lot of construction on US 119. Got a preplan for tomorrow picking up in Clarksburg, WV and delivering in Lansing, MI at 4 am on Friday morning. No way I can make that trip on time as I have to burn about 3 hours heading back through those ###### roads to Clarksburg. Hopefully they can get the appt time changed as I wouldn't mind heading up to Michigan to get further away from I-95

 

Yeah I am done with EVO 3.

Ran my ### off today and managed to escape alot of the traffic through the construction this morning as they got me unloaded pretty fast. Got loaded fast as well in Clarksburg, WV with a full trailer weighing a whopping 7000 lbs. Figured I could make it to Lansing, MI this afternoon if all went well so checked to see if I could get it off today and was told yes as it was a d/h deal. Made it with an hour to spare and with enough time to roll back to the nearby truckstop. Got a plan to pickup at the border of Ohio tomorrow and relay the load back to Mogadore with no time pressures tomorrow. Hope to get something good out of there for the weekend. Going to try and get a decent meal tonight as didn't have much time to eat well today.

 

Today started out promising and then went slightly to the crapper. Had a pickup in lower Michigan at a tile place that I was relaying to Mogadore with a preplan to pick up in Upper Ohio at Mohawk paper down to Ellenwood. All started well as I dropped my empty and hooked up to the one they were loading. Checked my trailer tires and one only had about 20 psi. They place had an air compressor so I filled it up and spotted the tiny leak. Luckily there was a tire place nearby. Second problem, tiles are #### heavy and they loaded me up with 79,900 and with too much in the rear to legally balance with the states it has to run through so took it back to the shipper and they took off a 2300 lb pallet and everything was fine but managed to burn through some good work time getting everything fixed. Got the load dropped in Mogadore and of course no empty trailers in the yard. Call dispatch and they tell me to bobtail to Mohawk (ca. 90 miles away) and pick up the empty there to load. Well I get to Mohawk and there ain't no trailers. Call dispatch again and someone on that end screwed up so rolled down to the J as I was nearly out of hours anyway to await word tomorrow. Went in to buy some things at FJ and realized my trusty credit card was missing from my wallet. Remembered last paying for the scale ticket in Michigan and called them up hoping it was there and it was. The manager at the Pilot was very pleasant and promised to ship it off to my house tonight. So a pretty eventful day and I hope a pleasant evening as I sit here near to the Lake Erie border with some very pleasant weather.

 

I have a question regarding relays. I was supposed to relay this last load to Ellenwood terminal when the final destination is just a few miles away in Norcross with a delivery time that would be right in line of when I could take it on over. Is there any reason that they would have me drop it in the yard rather than just delivering it the final few miles? Have any of you had situations such as this?