Good Night From II

Johnsons Corner, Loveland, CO

 

Everything about that place is a s hole from the parking to the people to the restaurant. On the other hand, the Longmont Texaco is down the road; usually the cheapest fuel for hundreds of miles.

 

In all of the years that I have been stopping here, never a problem with anyone or parking. You must have had a bad stay once. Sorry. Ohhh, going north so already passed Longmont, and right the fuel is only .02/gal different

 

Not going to lie, I miss being on the road. At home tonight.

 

More of a hello than a goodnight, just woke up somewhere in Indiana on 70. Will be switching out in Cloverdale after a nice chef's salad from the diner. Stop by every time we have come through. I think this is number four in four weeks. The salads are huge, only thing I have ever had from there. I can taste it already.

 

Yesterday was one of those days where it clicked ... Got to Springfield, MO at 10:30 AM on a broker load, to a customer that is also a large Swift customer. Scheduled for a live unload. Get to the window and receiving tells the driver in front of me to park it and wait. It's going to be awhile for a door. So I step up and ask how long. I have a 12:30ish live load 75 miles away in Joplin.

Clerk says, "depends on who you drive for." I tell her Swift. She says all Swift are drops. I let her know I will be glad to drop if they have mts, but that this is broker load and scheduled for a live unload. She asks is it a Swift trailer? I let know, yes. She says all Swift trailers HAVE to drop ... well OK then, guess I'll drop.

Drop, grab and mt, book on down to Joplin arrive at the shipper at 13:00. I notice their yard is full of Swift trailers. This is supposed to be a live load. But I'm wondering? Go in an talk to shipping. Oh, yes, that trailer is loaded and ready to go ... Score, daily double, two live loads turn into drop and hooks.

I've been looking to find some time to work in getting a pair of new steers and a 3 axle alignment. No live loads, 4 miles from the Petro ... done.

I70 outside Columbus, heading for VA for a Monday morning unload.

 

Coming to you live from the OK terminal...
Knocked out two shorties from the Dallas area. My second one was supposed to be delivered by 1700 in Lawton but due the fact it took the boys in Lancaster an hour and a half to fix my tandem issue, I was three hours late to delivery. Now today I picked up in Tulsa and heading to Albuquerque to Tcall the load tomorrow evening.

 

Thanks for reminding me about the time change( even though you are talking about time zones it reminded me of DST).... I better get moving.

 

yeah dont forget the time change, I missed the phone call from the target planner and in the voicemail he stated to make sure I remember time change since its no excuse for a service failure....ok

Tomorrow going to Grenada Hills again with a possible Yussen then a local Bakersfield that needs delivered by 3am, im sure I wont need to worry about losing one hour. I need to get up in the morning and drive to the vapor shop where I got me an expensive e-cig Wednesday and it died and wont charge this morning so need to try and get it exchanged. I paid $80 for just the battery so they better exchange it.

 

Littleton, CO at Walmart.

The Walmart DC where I delivered earlier today was a madhouse. Trucks backed up a dozen deep out the drive and down the street.
They had a power outage and had to do everything manually. It took nearly an hour to get in.
Easy drop, but slim pickins for mt's - especially so since I needed one that would pass inspection at Miller/Coors.

Nice drive back to the Denver area. Not too much wind and no one tried to smash my truck.