No food! No water or bathroom and expected to stay in truck

Time for a little update. OK so I got over my altitude sickness and went to Walmart to get some supplies for the truck. As I was shopping it was cut short by getting a pre-plan that picked up in an hour. I was able to get some food for emergencies but the only problem is I cannot stop eating the emergency food!

I bought some Honey Nut Cheerios cereal bars but man I know there in my truck and well I just have to eat them. I know maybe I bought the wrong emergency food! I guess I should have bought prunes or something like that!

Anyways I go and pick up a load of potato chips going to Phoenix from Denver and then send me the route. Oh boy they got me routed right over the same place I got stuck over 70 to Grand Junction Colorado.

I remember the discussion in orientation about bags of chips exploding at high altitudes and bring it to there attention. They send me new route taking I25 all the way down to I10 then straight across to Phoenix.

The first route was bad. the second route took me down to I40 then across then they removed that route because they forgot to put my fuel stops in. So final route was 300 miles out of the way.

Now I did not get loaded until after 4PM and had to spend a few hours getting out of Denver. So I pushed it and made it as far as Albuquerque to shut down around 3AM. Get woke up early by my DM telling me to get trailer fixed ASAP as soon as I get UN loaded in Phoenix.

I was half asleep and thought I heard trailer tandems could fall off! Sure enough that is what she said. So I said what? She said tandems on trailer will not lock and can come off while your going down road. I told her no tandems will lock because I had to move them when I got loaded and they are currently locked.

So we hang up and then she calls back again and noticed I'm at the ALB terminal. Take that trailer to the shop now. Hmm I'm still asleep and on my much needed break. So I get up half asleep and go to move my truck and it won't move.

The shop came out and put a lock on the trailer so I could not move it. So I Un hook go to the shop and ask what the heck is going on.They tell me the same thing. I go back and hook up and bring it into the shop and they check it out and nothings wrong with it. Well I could have told you this.

So when I should have been sleeping because I still had to drive a ton of miles today I had to mess with this. BY the time I got out of ALB it was 4PM. If I could have drove down I40 I would be sitting in Phoenix tonight but no they wanted me to go all the way down I25 to I10 and now I still have 250 miles to drive and I am way to tired to do it. I drove 450 already and just cannot go anymore.

I don't remember any high elevations on I40 from ALB ,NM to I17 maybe I am wrong dunno. So I am going to be late on this load and already have done a MAC22. If they would have giving me the correct number of miles on the pre-plan I would have not accepted it because you would have ended up getting there at 4AM Saturday morning with a driver assist UN load at 7AM.

Them you would have had to sleep all day in a hot truck because they want to kill you if you idol.

The past three weeks have not been good. Due to the deer hitting me and the shop time in Lancaster and then stuck in the mountains with altitude sickness and having to drive with chains on with a broken truck down steep snowy ice covered roads.

I sure hope things get better the next month!! bring back the good loads you use to give me with time to get them there without killing yourself.

Every load I seem to get now is either already late or has a just in time schedule with little room to spare.

Enough of these small loads of 200 miles or less. Done way too many of them now.

 

Oh OK I seen it mentioned on the load info not to go through Flagstaff! Still this load would have been hard to make with a solo driver. They should have put this one on a team because the lady where I loaded said they need this ASAP.

I tried to get it there but when I get so tired I cannot keep my eyes open I don't drive! DM said I should take cat naps! Hmm that's nice but I don't have time to do this.

I think the planners failed on this one. yes I will make sure I get paid the extra miles on this one. I won;t listen to the excuse like last time oh that's because it's corporate to corporate? What the heck does that mean?

I had a load that was actually 960 miles from city to city but they would only pay me 812.

 

Well I hope I don't get a service failure. They re powered the load last night I just could not make it. Driver shows up and tells me he has been awake since 6AM in the morning and he picked it up from me at 3:30AM and still had 5 hours left.

I don't know why they sent me this route. I would have made it going the other route with no problem. Now I am headed to San Antonio and finally got a decent run with some time so I can get back to feeling normal.

I would have never excepted this load if I knew a 737 mile run would turn into a 1000 miles in such few hours to get there.