CRETE - A Year in Review

I hope so, I'm getting battle fatigue fighting old man winter...ET has managed to miss most of the storms, I have managed to either get the beginning or the tail end of most...I'm so sick of seeing snow, I could spit any time I hear the word snow...and I'm sitting outside Birmingham waiting to start my 14 for a delivery to Huntsville, AL tonight...and the snow is suppose to start up there, and that area is under a winter storm warning over night....AHHHHHHHHH...I'm thinking about finding a regional company to work for if mother nature doesn't quit 'flaking' on me.

It could be worse, my niece works in a hospital in Tulsa, they were stranded there for 2.5 days with that storm before the Superbowl. They were taking turns sleeping in unoccupied rooms during their off duty time, and I see they got hit again last night with up to a foot of new 'global warming'...

 

What's this, I can't believe my eyes I actually had more miles in January than ET.......Did Hell freeze over?????????? I know it's been cold in the deep south...but I didn't think it was that 'Deep South' that has been freezing (referring to the movie 'Little Nicky')

 

Hey Redbeard...you still doing ok with your truck? Is it still worth it to buy one through the company? Haven't heard much from ya, hope it's because they're running the wheels off of ya'

 

"Fr Collins, CO to Arkansas City, MO...........................................699mi"

I'm going with 'wrong state'. I'd bet you meant 'Arkansas City, KS', huh?

Some of us know of that place. It's pronounced 'R-Kansas City', for the uninitiated, tho they enjoy the laugh they get out of it.
go figure. Of course the locals get even more colloquial and just call it 'Ark City'. Gee whiz that was a big word for me....

Wow Evertruckerr, you have some 'inspirational' miles. I apprec. your posts.

Makes me wanna nap...

 

Yeah, I bet that gave the trainee an instantaneous anal pucker.

 

Good stuff! E.T and Super been eating up the highway..Just wait till the snow is gone,you'll really be able to turn and burn..As long as you stay off I-95..them campers will slow you down..Be safe out there..

 

Im sitting outside Tampa right now, 70's and nice. I wasn't too "social" in the "circle" yesterday. I picked up a load that I have "0" leeway time on it, and wouldn't you know they loaded the trailer incorrectly. 3 hrs later I had my load PROPERLY done and scaled and I was rolling. They rescheduled me for tomorrow at 0630.

I almost forgot what it was like to rest for a half day....nice!

 

They're good at that, I have had several loads that were nose heavy beyond what the tandems can be adjusted to compensate. Crete needs to start charging them like they're an extra stop...maybe they would teach their loaders how to balance a load.