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Greer terminal

More than once I've put " more miles than advertissed' on a mac 22 and haven't gotten any
grief over it.

 

They do, student just doesn't recognize it as a dock back. Remind him about backing into the box of cones where he wasn't allowed to hit the back row of cones. They don't have docks at most of the schools so they have to improvise.

 

Not so, I now belong to the reefer division out of PHX. New DM, new home terminal.

 

1st load back from short time off(for me anyways)mira loma to Lewiston....heavy as hexx but going thru the prettiest and most isolated area of the country on the way there...nice drive....

 

Delivered my load right on time, and I had 2 pplans before I got there.
The first was to drop my mt at P&G in Browns Summit, NC, the second was to pu an mt about 60 miles from there.
I had until 0500 tomorrow to pu the mt, so I decided that hours were too low to fight late day traffc and shut down for the night.
Although, when I got the load assignment for the mt pu the window of time was gone and they wanted it picked up by 1730 tonight.

They had also sent me another pplan in the meantime.
Pick up 168 (loaded) miles by 0830 for a live load tomorrow morning. (probably at least 190 miles)
Deliver in Paris, TX - 857 loaded miles - by 1300 the next day.
44k+

I sent a mac22 for the trailer pickup and said I would get it at 0500 like the pplan said I could.
A bit later my DM asked if I'd be able to pu and del on-time for the pplan, and 3 minutes later the plan was removed.
I could have picked it up on time, maybe, if the miles were right and I could do max speed all the way.
But the delivery of 1300 the next day, when I probably wouldn't hit the road until around 1100 -- no, not in my lifetime.


Oh ya - that service failure has been removed!!! to my DM

 

I'd have to agree.

 

He told me that he did 2 45 degree backs. They concentrated more on off set backing and parell (sp) parking. talked to a friend who is also a mentor, and his wife also just finished PHX academy, said the same thing. When we were at a customer for his first back, told me right then that he did not know what we were doing because they were not shown. Also they did not see John, the person that teaches backing up there by the orientation trailer.

 

Have you noticed lately that on MAC 30 we seem to be always getting offered the heavy loads. Heard a rumor that Swift is saving the heavy loads for us l/o.

 

actually I was noticing the opposite querying loads in so cal......nice mix of heavy and light long and short freight.....they did get me all excited on thinking I had my3rd coast to coast in a row....but it was to tcall in phoenix......I just picked this one coz the weathers good this region...sucks in the rest of the country...and its beautiful drive on the 93 thru nevada

 

Couple days ago got pulled into a California weight station where they found about 2600 things wrong with my load. Unbeknownst to me via the preplan, but it turned out to be one of those sort of loads that you have to go 200 miles before your first stop. Plus the preplan and the BOL listed 36,000 and change for the weight, figured good to go. So this was a major foul up at the scale, they wouldn't let me leave til it was legal. The crew that came out reworked it but it was still over 1300, finally they removed a pallet and it was 33,900, the scale let me leave.

Made my delivery ontime and I never mentioned that a pallet might be missing. They took over 6 hours to unload and they never asked me to do a OSD either. My theory there was too much freight and the dock boys got their cut of the high value stuff that wasn't listed on the BOL.

Reason I didn't stop to scale, last time I did that I got a nasty naggy phone call telling me not to stop for anything until 200 miles. I'm sorry, but I'm not going through this again. I will stop and scale if necessary next time-- Cover your Tail!! $10 bucks to scale- priceless. Estimates are that this is going to cost me about $1 a pound- pricefull

Seattle bound via I5 northbound. 70 is running on fumes, need a dot inspection. May put the truck in the KW shop there in Seattle area, hotel right next door, need a couple things fixed anyway.