Good Night From II

Here in Beckley like I thought. Got here with 1 hour left on my 70. Took me 2 hours to get 80 miles with pulling the hills at 25-30mph. I was hoping that I might get to Nitro, but after that first long hill on I-64 west out of the shipper, I just knew that it was not in the cards. Could have made the next service plaza, but my Verizon does not work there. T-calling in Columbus in the morning and then home until Thursday. My new DM knows, will not be seeing my arse back over this way again. Right now for these 80 miles, 4.8mpg. She said that she might must have me a Laredo load on Thursday.

Mystic, I have not seen a broker load in a long time, ever since they tried to get me to take a HAZ-MAT load from Houston to Pittsburg, and wanted to pay me $1.35/mi.

 

flying j in salt lake cityt ut. finishing up my 34 reset tomorrow morning. then p/u load at terminal going to fountain co for a 0500 05/27 del.. wants me to take hwy 50 to i-25. gonna go i-70 to i-25 since i have basically 2 days to go 600 miles. seems i get short miles after i take a 34 reset. then when i'm low on miles, they want me to take long mile runs that i cant do.

 

Pueblo, CO on my way to NM on an mt trailer move.

I got this load this morning as I was coming off home time.
I went to the terminal to snag an mt, but they all needed repairs.
Instead of sending me elsewhere for an mt I was offered a t-called local load delivering at the Costco in Arvada at 1600.
That worked for me, and it was an easy $50 for the day.

The winds were starting to get pretty bad, so I stopped here at the Love's for the night.

 

Welp I'll be finishing up the home time tomorrow afternoon and then I start my new adventure
as driving for a Swift owner operator out of El Paso. Got my owner code last
night. I'll get to play owner operator without all the responsibility of
one. I figured it's a good way to learn the game and determine of that
avenue is something that is right for me.

 

Yeah, there was some sort of row going on vis-à-vis the planners. Planners don't like the program and were laying their inability to cover loads on the broker program, since O/O would go after the higher paying broker loads. So the solution was to cut our broker rates to essentially the same as Swift contract rates.

Problem was it didn't hold any water. The broker is only covering about a dozen loads a day. Hardly enough to impact the planners. Bottom line the broker rates are coming back in line.

 

I wish you luck ... but you need to change your approach. You own a business now and you very much have the responsibility of a business owner ... it's those that fail to understand this, who are the ones who generally fail at this endeavor.

 

I think BlackBeard understands that.

But he has the advantage of working FOR the O/O before taking the plunge himself.
He has the opportunity to see the workings in action, without all the risk involved being squarely on him.

 

My mea culpa then ... I read as he is now an O/O.

 

Joplin, MO at the I-44 Petro. Next stop Romeoville, IL and hope for a good load out of there.