Stevens Transport aviary

The load schedule and the log book will dictate when you drive and when you don't, when you break and when you sleep. Forget any 'normal' schedule you may have for working and sleeping, you will now do both these things when you have too, like it or not. Welcome to the freight relocation business!

Example, you just dropped your last load and its 7am, no load available yet so you head to the truckstop. Piss around, laundry, TV, eat, smoke etc etc. At 9pm you get a load that picks up 100 miles away at 11:30pm and has to be 400 miles down the road at delivery at 8:30am. Your log book says you can do it, your body says go to bed, your DM says go get the #### load.

 

And my answer, your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me. I have been up all day waiting on dispatch and I am too tired to drive. Now this may cause problems but the trump card is safety and the policy about driving during the danger zone.


Other times the body is up for it so I do it. Never allow a desk jockey to dictate when you drive.

Mother is going to question today 670 miles in 11 hours with one stop for fuel. But it is all by their book. 60 miles to go to target and see how long it takes to check in 951 cases of produce.

 

And it's Target, too!
Figure it takes one minute for each item...let's see...951 minutes divided by 60 mintues to the hour...add in breaks...carry the 4....
Tuesday!

 

thanks Emu... Last time you were there it was much quicker, but the girl did not find your comment funny... I could use a quick unload at target for once...
Last time I was there, it was 14 hours....
Your math is off, your forgot to multiply by the items in each case... all 24 count cases this time so 24*951/60 ^3 plus breaks, shift changes, lost paper work, shift change....

Oh well then it will be over to the mud/dust pitt.... never seen a place before that could be muddy and have a dust cloud...

 

Hey! I did not sign up to do math, too!

Oh, wait. This is TRUCK driving. FREIGHT relocation. Requires higher math skills!

 

Target throws a curve today, pulled in at 0430 for my 0500 appt, back into the door, and they start bumping the trailer in minutes... oh well crawl into the bunk... at 0705 my phone rings, paper work is ready.... wow....no detention pay today

so instead I get to wait on dispatch...

 

####, been forever of seems since I've updated. Was sweating going into week 5 of my O1 training without mountains or NW but able to get them all done with a trip to Sacramento. Now 120 miles from Dallas waiting to see how they are going to get me back for O2. Preplan on my trainer is Kansas to California but he has been out for 4 months and trying to get home. Just another day in the life...

Close to 12,000 miles in 35 days in O1...

 

He needs to get there soon or he'll forget the way home!

 

As long as we're talking about training and mountains and such...
Dropped my student at motel in Buffalo so I can deliver load in Toronto. (he's not Canada qualified)
Leave Buffalo at 2230, get to receiver at 0130 and park in dock. (no one there.)
At 0230, see lights on, go inside, they have me open doors and I'm done by 0300. (appt was 0300). Head down to Grimsby (47 miles south) to get washout, then head north to Midland for 0830 drop and hook. Arrive at shipper at 0828.
Load not ready.
Plan was to grab load and scoot across border (now THERE'S optimissim) in time to pick up student and he can drive.
Long story short, do 10 in shipper lot, make it back to Buffalo and find student asleep on truck stop floor (2300)
This load is bound for Murfreesboro, TN. Student needs NE dock and SE zone.
On way to Columbus to repower a Syracuse load. This will get student the dock. Now just need load to SE, then back to Dallas. He has 7,500 miles already and his time is up on Oct 5. I will be in Boise Oct 2, so he'll have to finish last few days on second trainer truck, but will have all requirements before getting off here.
I like to get Requirements out of the way as soon as possible. That way, it's only miles and time left and lots of time to practice backing in backsides of Truck Stops.

 

Good evening from emulsified's "official" home. Only took dispatch to find me a kraft load deadhead of 220 miles up to new ulm MN. Goes to cally again. I am liking this west region running. I run out of my 70 saturday and I will be setting at home and get 0 back on sunday.