Where is everyone?

Tell me about it. I rarely check mine--even when I'm heavy I get at least 6.5--but I checked it today....4.9!!!!

I'm still 300+ miles out of El Paso. I'm heading out probably about 730-8am

 

A couple of years ago I was hauling livestock for the winter, on a Saturday morning I loaded a load of fat hogs going to market to a small town 15 miles from home, knowing dam well that a blizard was on its way. Guy I was leased to was at the farm I loaded at, asked me if I was sure I could make it, said you can wait until the storm passes and stay at my house for the weekend. I said, hell, I can make it, come hell or high water I'm going home! Got loaded up and not even an hour into my what should have been three hour ride I couldn't see more than ten feet out the windshield, for the next half hour I spent more time looking out the side window at the center line then out the windshield. Got to a town that I knew had a sale barn, found the barn and spent half an hour backing up to the chute trying to bust thru drifts, kicked the hogs off and pen'd em up for the night, pulled the truck around into an inside corner of the building and idled it up to 1400, would still barely stay over 150 degrees on the gauge because of the wind. Got out of there the next afternoon and headed down the road, I am glad I stopped, there were drifts across the road that the state had to remove with front end loaders that were the size of a small house, trucks and cars piled into each other in the ditches. Moral of the story is when it starts to get bad out I get off the road before it gets worse, it just isn't worth tearing up equipment or possibly somebody's life.

 

Sage advice

 

I had a somewhat similar situation back in 2003.... I was pulling a Wally Worlds reefer trailer and I ran out of the Auburn, IN DC. Well, I worked midnights and left AUburn headed for Chicago on US6. About 20min into the trip it started snowing heavly. Well, it took me 9-10 hours to go 135 miles across RT6 at 2am. I did not see a single car, or truck. I had my FLD and I was pushing the snow out of the way with my bumper (at least knee deep on the road) and when I finally got to US6 and US421 (my hometown as well) there was a Indiana State Trooper that stopped me and asked me where I was going. I told him west into Chicago and he said RT6 was closed east of there but since I have already traveled it, it was no big deal. Ever since that trip, when the snow starts flying, I park the truck and wait it out. Ain't no load worth me ruining my record over.

 

How long has Werner been pulling flats??? I'm parked next to one right now and just realized that i don't think I have ever seen a Werner with a skateboard...... maybe I'm just too tired to think

 

I have only ever seen a couple.

 

In Eloy at the TA I ran into several SWIFT lease/purchase drivers. 5 of them had stepdecks and 3 had flatbed. All brand new and they said they just picked them up and their trucks at corporate in Phoenix. I asked them about their account and they said they are going to be doing just general platform freight. They said SWIFT just bought about 150 platform trailers and are bringing drivers on to pull them...... so yeah, not good news.

 

More undercutting morons that dont know how to do the job.

 

I wonder how many of those swiftys are going to put a coil through the cab or have a bad load shift? Id like to see them get a load of rolled wire mesh.... WORST LOAD EVER!