CRETE - A Year in Review

Sorry to hear Ralph. I thought I was the only one running one day then sitting the next. Plus DG doesn't change appointments from my experiences.

Sitting in Atalissa, IA for the night. The nearby farmer must have just fertilized his fields....mmm mmm not so good....smelling

 

i got spoiled because last time I was at some DG in TX I think and the qualcomm said definitely no early delivery. But it must have been something they wanted because that place took me right away a day early.

on the bright side, I found an amazing restaurant in town: Earl G Dumplins. I had frog legs for the first time and they were delicious.

 

A preventable damage to vehicle, not a preventable accident. Big difference.

 

Preventable stupidity. Covers it all!

 

Sitting in Elsinore, MO. at a pretty nice independent.
I got another load with an extra day on it. 800 miles delivering in 3 days
Hoping to t-call in Marietta but there probably isn't much freight around Atlanta....we'll see.

 

2593 miles for this week, ending today, with a 1300 miler delivering Sat in CT. Been pushing my 70 the last few days, and will the next two.

 

About a week ago, I had my truck aligned because of edge wear on one of my steers. After I left, I noticed my steering wheel no longer telescopes. I don't know if they changed steering wheels or what. I remember that problem they had a while back with some steering wheels, but mine wasn't on the list or had the symptoms they gave. Has anyone else had their wheel stop telescoping, and is there an easy fix? Thanks

 

I love it when a night is great.

Got a PP earlier today, picking up at ConAgra in Waterloo, IA at 0600 tomorrow (4/11). Got to Waterloo, parked at the Pilot, then said "what the hell, directions say customer has overnight parking, I'm just going to go straight there."

Got there, checked in, said "First off, I'm a little bit early, and by a little bit, I mean a lot" - guy in the office said "no worries, we'll go ahead and load you right now - actually, it may be already done." Takes my pickup number, looks through a stack of BOLs in an outbox and sure enough, it's ready to go in a trailer.

Tandems were in the 40.5 when I picked the trailer up. Brought it to the Pilot, scaled, 11900 / 33260 / 32580. Pilot was full, went across to the J, 3 spots left.

Color me pretty happy.

 

turned in 3288 last week running the god forsaken northeast had to #### near quit my job to get out of new york..havent done the math for this week but i think i am sitting somewhere around 3000. just bought a new computer and im sitting next to lowes dc in south indiana at a walmart no cooked chicken though so im out of luck on food. i guess im happy with it i should call in for a load but i dont feel like doing anything right now.

 

That is sweet! I've been on a bad streak where my last two receivers had onsite parking (which I love) but wouldn't take me early. The last one I had to wait 29 hours and now in Ft. Worth they say I will have to wait 24 hours. Very depressing.