My new career with Superior Carriers begins!

Kind of a weird week last week. Picked up a dedicated on Monday but it was not ready until 2:30 in the afternoon. I had gone to my truck early to take a nap since I knew I would be driving into the night some. Dispatch sends me a message that the load was ready on qualcomm. Of course I am in the sleeper and don't see it until 3:30pm. I don't know why they did not call me on the phone. Any other time they would have.

So anyways, I said to heck with going to pick up the load that late in the afternoon in Atlanta traffic so I waited until 7pm to go get the load. Picked it up and drove all night. Pulled up at the customer at 6:45am for a 7:00 delivery. I go in to get the guy that unloads me and he says they can't hold the product until Wednesday morning. I was like you are kidding me right? I left and went straight to the Pilot across the street, took a shower and came back out to the truck and crashed for 5 hours. I was dead. Spent the rest of the day watching movies and playing on the internet while picking up 10 hours of layover pay.

Delivered the load on Wednesday morning and headed back to Atlanta. Met up with my wife on the way back and she brought me some spaghetti and french bread. Man that stuff was goooood. Thank you honey. Had gotten a dispatch for a dedicated load for Thursday but some things got changed around and they put me on a system load going out Thursday for a Friday a.m. delivery.

Picked up an empty trailer down in Morrow Thursday morning and got loaded in Dalton GA. Had to back inside the building to get loaded. That was a first for me. Got loaded and headed to Kingsport TN. Got to our Kingsport terminal and it was a ghost town. I was the only one there all night. It was quiet though. Slept with the truck off. Got up early Friday morning and made a 7a.m. delivery to a local paper plant there in Kingsport. I had to unload in two different places so I picked up an hour of demurrage pay. One of the places I had to get to involved this extremely tight turn trying to get around a concrete pillar on my right side and an embankment going down to a river on my left side. My butt was puckered up good trying to make that turn. I was not so much worried about the concrete pillar as I was the embankment. I was worried the weight of the truck would cause it to give way and I would go rolling down into the river. I had 12,000 pounds of liquid on the tank so it was light compared to a full load. If I had 45k on I probably would not have tried to get back in there. The guy that is taking me back there says trucks get back in there all the time. I was like well they need to widen that turn. Our tractors are small compared to most and our trailers are 48 feet long. Anything longer, I don't see someone getting back in there.

The Kingsport terminal tank washed me back at the terminal and had a loaded trailer waiting on me headed for Brownsville TN for a Saturday afternoon delivery. I made it 90 miles from the delivery place and called it an evening around 6:30pm. I did not have to start my clock on Saturday until around 12:15pm so I picked up a few hours of layover waiting to deliver. Headed out at 12:30pm and arrived at the delivery about 15 minutes before my delivery time. They took me right back and got started on me at the exact delivery time. That place was fast. They had me in and out in an hour. I had already gotten a tank wash on Friday to head back to Georgia and drop where I park my truck. I had plenty of time left on my clock to make it back to Georgia so I stopped in Nashville on the way and met up with my sisters and families and we ate dinner together. That worked out good.

Hit the road and made it back to Winder GA around 1:30a.m. on Sunday morning. Went ahead and just stayed in the truck until daylight and then came on to the house. Got home yesterday morning around 8:30am and was off the rest of the day and all day today. Will call in this morning around 10a.m. and see what they have planned for me. There is suppose to be a Little Rock AR load going out tomorrow for Wednesday delivery. I hope I get it. Love that run.

 

Been running the system here over the last couple of weeks. Dedicated has been dead in the water. Left out Sunday evening to make a delivery in West Virginia. Got there at 5am and got finished unloading at a little after 9am. My air condition to a dump shortly after leaving out so I grabbed a hotel and took my 10 hour break. Got tank washed in Baltimore MD, picked up a clean tank, got loaded Tuesday morning for a load delivering Thursday afternoon just northwest of Chitcago. Got to Markham terminal this afternoon about 3pm. Talked to the shop about my a/c. Told me to have it at the shop at 7am and they will look at it.

Currently sitting at the company hotel in Markham for the night. Free breakfast in the morning. Yahoo! Hope they have a load headed back south once I deliver tomorrow

 

Well I did get that load headed back south to Albany GA. Picked up the trailer early Friday morning, got 40 miles away from the Bermuda Triangle (Markham) and got a message load canceled. So they headed me back to Markham....I was like $%#!....I had already been there since Wednesday. I was ready to get the heck out of there. Anyway, they got me a load for Saturday morning out of Elwood IL about 40 miles southwest of Chitcago. Loaded at 5am. They got me in and out in an hour and I was on my way to Greensboro NC.

Made it to Knoxville TN Saturday evening and got parked at 6:30pm. Still had 300 miles to go to get to Greensboro for a 12 noon delivery. I knew I had some mountains and hills to contend with so I got up at 5am and rolled out at 5:30. Despite the terrain and some semi-heavy fog, still made good time and got to the customer at 11am. There was another truck in the hole just finishing up so I was able to get right in. Got backed, unloader took a sample and was unloading by 12 noon. The product was like water so I was out of there by 12:30pm. Still had 5:52 on my drive clock and 300 miles back to Winder so I was able to get back yesterday evening at 7pm.

Go out tomorrow to Little Rock AR. Hope Memphis has something for me when I get done unloading Wednesday morning.

 

Had a brain fart on that last post. Should make sense now....

 

I have been that way before down U.S. 35 and I-77. Not a fan of all those curves and hills in West Virginia. U.S. 35 is not too bad coming down through Ohio but I-77 is no bueno for me.

I need to get back on the dedicated deal...

 

I went up I-81 to I-77 just to avoid the gorge and Black Mountain. I guess if I ran it all the time it would be different. If I can avoid it I will though.