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I completely agree. The first few times I was happy to help them out. They made me feel important, what a fool I was. Haha Then I realized I was getting really screwed over and the plans were terrible. Either horrible customers or crazy heavy loads, or live loads that were suppose to be pick ups that took 6 hours.

 

I still accept them though. I just know now its not gonna be a cake walk

 

lucked out on the snow.woke up to freezing but dry conditions. delivered the load and picked up another few hrs later at same place in prewitt nm going to buena park ca. 1045 tomorrow morning appt. just under 8 hrs to run today after stopping at a couple t/s to weigh load. pilots scale speaker wasn't working rite. they couldn't understand the gargle mess lol. so stopped at t/a in gallup

 

I lucked out and squirted on through from central Arkansas and bypassed OKC up to Kansas early this morning, just as the freezing rain was starting. I had about 30-40 miles of rain that was hard at times with temperatures dropping from 29 degrees on down to 23 degrees, but only a few miles were setting up with ice on the road. The balance of the time there was spray coming off wheels, so the worst is yet to come.

I'm getting unloaded now in Kansas and it's 16 degrees with a brisk wind. I woke up in Arkansas at 41 degrees as the overnight low just outside Little Rock, and it's a hard north wind, so this front is coming down hard.

Stay safe out there.

 

Batesville, MS. Saw the weather channel this morning, and there was no way that I was going to take a load to Dallas today, especially when even the weather channel was saying that if you do not need to be on the roads in Dallas in the morning, stay off. I was not going to mess with this weather from Little rock all the way, so instead, took a shorty going to Greenwood, MS. Gets me south of the storm.

 

Franklin, KY.

The weather should not get real bad here, but I'll get some rain/snow mix.

I just got a pplan that was picking up (live) 260 miles away by 0900 tomorrow morning, then t-calling in Memphis by 0430 the next morning - around 450 miles away.
I didn't go off duty until 1718 and it is a good 6 hour drive, and even if I made it I doubt I could have made Memphis by 0430 the next morning.

But my home time request is for Denver on the 8th, so I used that as the excuse to refuse the load.
5 minutes later the pplan was removed.

 

Delivered my Amazon load to UPS in Oakland, snagged a brand new MT. Since neither Swift or the broker had anything I headed to Lathrop. Shortly after I got here the broker called back to offer a load from Sacramento to NE Kansas which I took. THEN Swift sends me a preplan for another Amazon load going back to Phoenix which I had to refuse. Didn't want to but I really didn't want to renig on the broker load. Probably better since I would have dropped at Amazon late Friday night and probably have gone home for the weekend.

 

All the afternoon shuttle runs out of Lancaster were canceled today. I normally leave around 1530, get to Prescott AR about 4 hours later, Swap trailers with a Memphis driver and run back to Lancaster. I could have made it to Prescott without a problem, but getting back to the Dallas area would have been dicey. Since we drive daycabs we obviously can not go to the sleeper and wait it out.

We will probably not go Friday as well and the same for Saturday. So...I am hunkered down in my little camper just south of Lancaster trying to keep the pipes from freezing. I have my internet, plenty of food, and lots of movies to catch up on. Thought about going to the house, 90 miles east, but the chances of getting back in time to possibly work Monday looked slim.

Y'all be safe and warm out there!

 

Winfield, KS - got to the customer with a wide open window for a drop and hook, and was informed the load won't be ready until 04:00 and it was a live load... but they said I could drop the trailer and they will call me in the morning when it is ready. Bobtailed to Walmart, had dinner, and noticed two other Swifties in the lot. The snow is starting to come down hard, temperatures are likely to get close to zero tonight.

I've set my alarm to wake up every 4 hours to run the engine to keep the fuel from turning to jelly. So far I'm toasty and I haven't started the bunk heater yet, but that will change I'm sure.

I wonder whether I'll be able to get out of the parking lot tomorrow, and if I get to the customer then I'll need to deal with a layer of snow and ice on the 5th wheel. The trailer is going to be LIGHT and might be a bit squirrelly if the wind kicks up again, right now it's fairly calm. Tomorrow will be an interesting run to Joliet.

Running through the very start of the ice storm this early am past OKC I think I'll be glad I'm in the really cold air mass above it. I went from 41 degrees in Little Rock to 23 degrees east of OKC, then down to 16 by the time I got to Wichita.

By the way, running toward Little Rock yesterday I saw a veritable "river" of geese about half a mile wide, from as far as I could see to the north to as far as I could see to the south, all bucking a really strong headwind... they were "getting out of Dodge" in advance of the storm. They're probably sipping Pina Coladas somewhere in Mexico now...

 

lipton1....why dont you run the engine all nite?. just send a freeform saying you're idling due to low temps. thats what i do when i get below 20.