There's Always One More Load....

Last week, Thursday morning, I was sitting in Ohio, east of Columbus unloading the trailer into a silo. I was sitting there, kind of adding up the week so far, and though I still didn;t know what the rest of Thu would bring or what I would do on Friday, I was guesstimating the week in review. I figured that I would make 900-950 for the week, which is something less than average, but acceptable. The dogs are still going to see their dog biscuit money out of that amount. And since I took most of Tuesday off at home, and slept through the a good part of the day on Wednesday, it wasn't bad for what I had done.

A little while later, the Qualcomm beeps, and it's my dispatcher. He wants to know if I can go to Spring Grove Pa for Saturday delivery of starch, picking up in Chicago, and it pays very well for the load. So I punched the address into my GPS on the dash, figured the distances and times I needed to do the load, and then called in and said that I would take it.

I headed up to Chicago, picked up the trailer which turned out not to be loaded yet, so I loaded it myself out of a railcar. I headed out, knocking about 85 miles off the trip, ensuring tht I could arrive nby about 6 pm Friday nite. Stopped and ate, slept, and delivered right on time Sat morning, then turned the truck around and headed back for Michigan.

Still had time to get in a 34 hour break before starting out this morning.

There's always at least one more load out their lurking with your name on it, you jut have to find it. LOL!

 

My dispatcher is pretty good, there was no pressure to take the load. it was just a good deal, paying very well, and he knew that I had the hours available to run the load. And it wasn't due to load until Friday, and he had them get it ready so I could pick up the load on Thursdays. Kind of funny, because I was sitting there thinking that it was the first week in about 2 months I stayed in my normal regional area, and it popped up. But this week, I actually did stay in my area, and am home already on Friday morn.

 

Mine was a bit more than a short cool down. Run from Columbus to Chicago to make the pickup, then run from Chicago to Spring Grove pa for the delivery. Then return to home in Michigan in time to pick up a 34 before starting over again on Monday.

Columbus to Chicago 330 miles
Chicago to Spring Grove 689 Miles
Spring Grove to Home 632 Miles.