THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Woo, busy but good day today. Grabbed a couple donuts from the Peetro in Mebane (you know, the one that truely lives up to the "Peetro" name as they decided to locate the entrance to the mens restroom right as you walk in, and then designing the ventilation system so that it pushes air into the restroom and then fills the entire building with "THE SMELL"? Yeah, that one), and headed towards my delivery in Oxford, NC. Got unloaded there, then stopped back by the Petro for more donuts and a sandwich and fuel (good thing most truck stops don't have a Dunkin Donuts, otherwise I'd be broke) on the way down to Fort Mill, SC.

Live load there, while I was there hopped on the load board and found a load headed back up to Charlotte from where I was headed, so went ahead and booked that as well. After getting loaded, cruised on down to Savannah, GA, drop and hook at Target there. 14 was running out, 2 hours left, but, my load to Charlotte picked up from our logistics yard only 10 miles away, no sense in not grabbing it tonight. About 200 yards from the entrance, I see the fricking train just stopped in the middle of the road. Burned up 30 minutes just sitting there until it finally moved. Finally found a spot to put my empty and grabbed my loaded trailer out of there.

With the 14 running out but wanting to get the heck out of Savannah before morning, it was time for some 70MPH supertrucking back up 95 until I got to my stopping point. Over the 14 by 1 minute by the time I showed my 5 minute post-trip. CLOSE ENOUGH.

Tomorrow I'll deliver up in Charlotte then head over to the OC to do some laundry, take a shower, clean the truck up a bit, etc. Might make a Wal-Mart trip too. Then I'll look at getting a load out of there or going home for a day or so if nothing is headed out of there, but that'll all depend on what I find tomorrow. My last restart was when I took the day off for Thanksgiving so ideally I won't go home until after the full 7 days has past so I can actually restart at home. WTF is the point of the newer once-a-week restart rule? Just... why??

This is my heaviest load since leaving out after Thanksgiving, 30,000lbs. I've been hauling these super light loads that are basically like pulling an empty trailer, I love it. Hopefully they keep showing up.