CRETE - A Year in Review

Don't tease me like that....I almost jumped for joy(in my mid-roof, that'da hurt)..until I read that the 'T' bag was still there.

 

One interesting note. The place I'm picking up from in Nashville is directly across from THE Gibson guitar manufacturer. Not that impressive of a building for a company that makes such a quality product...if another driver hadn't pointed it out, I would never have known. I pictured the Gibson plant to be this big glamorous Taj Mahal like place.

 

Argggghhhhhhh!!! The load I picked up said 38,400 lbs. Scaled it out. 80980 lbs. Someone screwed up big time. I am approaching a 90% problem rate on loads. This has to be one of the levels of purgatory and I'm doing time before I go to heaven.

 

Good thing you scaled it!
it's the same math that messed me up on counting my miles

 

So true. I didn't think the new rules would really hinder me but I was wrong. The 30 minute 'break' has often been an exhausting hassle that only contributes to fatigue. When I can't time it to hit a rest area, I'll go to a truck stop. By the time I get parked I've literally had to run inside if I wanted to do anything or just remain in the truck nonsensically (only extending my day). Another time I tried to combine it with my fuel stop at a chaotic, jammed Pilot. After I fueled I just had to circle around and wait in the fuel line again just to kill the remaking minutes. That is the opposite of relaxing.

 

I finally got out of my shipper for the 2nd time. When I walked in with a CAT scale ticket and the words "I have a problem", they tried every thing they could think of to try not to have to take the blame...including asking if I tried sliding my tandems...ummmm, I'm a 1000 lbs over gross, we can slide all day long, it won't lose weight. Then they thought we were allowed 82,000 lbs. Nope 80;000 in some states, 80400 in others because of the "no-idle " exemption. And TN is one of the former, not the latter. Finally, they put me in a door and pulled a pallet of each product and weighed it. It turns out, their new computer system had the wrong weights of each box of product...each pallet was 180 lbs off(and I had 57 pallets). I had almost 48,000 lbs of stuff. So they pulled 2 pallets off, and reworked it so everything was balanced...and now I'm 79,280...and perfectly balanced on my tandems. Honestly, I think this heavy load makes my truck pull better. I actually almost had to pass someone going up Monteagle. And down, I let her scream and Mr. Jake did a fine job holding me back as long as I kept the rev's over 1900.

 

I swear, I've never seen any higher level of disorganized incompetence in my life. I get to my delivery exactly when I say...the shipper wants the receiver to live unload...the receiver says drop at a door, we'll unload you, but we need Crete's emptys bad. So I message op's...and have been messaging them every 5 minutes for the last hour and fifteen minutes and get NOTHING. This is the worst organized incompetent company I have ever seen.

 

I'm stuck at Marietta til at least Monday....check engine light came on yesterday, so I figure it better be checked out. I can use the break...3058 last week, and laundry beckons.....badly!

 

Hey guys. Is it possible to change your hometime location without changing your address. I sent a message to my FM but no response yet. It looks like it is going to be a hassle to establish residence and transfer CDL and Hazmat to Utah from VA.

 

Unless its changed, my fm and terminal manager said NO.. insurance states you must have your licensed changed in 31 days of a address and tax forms filed for the new state.