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

Sorry 6speed I don't understand what you mean with "why would schneider be so gracious to you?" Not being a ######## I truly am missing the point.

 

Well I'd been saving up for a DFO day for a while apparently so today was a good one... OFF WE GO lol

So it starts out at around 9:18am. Still in vampire mode so I was deep asleep. All of the sudden hear this BOOM and feel my truck cab rock and I shoot up out of the sleeper from a dead sleep trying to figure out WHAT ****ING IDIOT JUST HIT MY PARKED TRUCK AT THE END OF THE ROW SURROUNDED BY CONCRETE BARRIERS.

I peel the curtain back from the windows and check my passenger mirrors... nothing but the concrete barriers at the end of the front row at Carlisle where I was parked.

Go to the other side... check the drivers mirrors... same guy that was parked next to me last night still there.

Flip up the curtain and look out the front... nothing there.

OK WTF? Now I'm trying to figure out if maybe I was dreaming and woke up from the middle of it. But I SWEAR I felt the cab rock. Maybe my airride bag for the cab blew out, or one of the bags on the suspension let go. Unlikely being that I was parked, but whatever, I'll look carefully later.

Still thinking I'm losing my mind at this point, go back to sleep.

Wake up, walk around the truck looking carefully for any scratches, dents, scrapes, ANYTHING... can't find a THING. WHAT THE ****.

Only odd thing I notice is this bent up yellow pole sign thing made from a couple stacked brake drums is now in front of the passenger side of my truck. I knew it wasn't there when I pulled in, because when I pulled in the spot was really tight and I had to pull through and then back in again to get my trailer straight. Couldn't have done that with this thing in front of my truck. But WTF is it and where did it come from???

Anyway, can't figure it out. Drop empty, pick up the relay and head to the fuel island.

As I'm fueling I notice some odd chips on the paint around the door handle on my passenger side. Honestly they look pretty fresh. I know that no one is stupid enough to try to break into my truck at the end of the row at the Carlisle OC. But I look closer at the chips in the paint and sure enough someone had recently tried to wedge a screwdriver or something into the plastic surrounding my passenger door handle and chipped the paint in a few spots and put some marks in the plastic from trying to get behind it. They were unsuccessful. What worries me is that I know I would have heard this and woken up if it were when I was stopped and inside the truck. I'm wondering if someone tried to get in when I was at home over the week of the 4th and left the truck at the house and was out and about. Very strange. Will definitely block the truck in at the house now with the Deuce or something cause no one knows how to start it and if they did, everyone will hear it.

So, on with my day. Headed south to the delivery I glance over at the worlds most useless item, the Cascadia hood mirror (even twice as useless on my oddball truck since I only have one LOL) and notice its all ####ed off to the side. Stop at the rest area and take a closer look and sure enough something had hit it. No damage, but yellow paint that perfectly matched the yellow pole thing that mysteriously appeared in front of my truck at the OC earlier.

I'm guessing what happened is that someone took the corner too sharp with their trailer, tagged the yellow drum brake pole thing, which tipped into my truck and thank GOD hit the mirror pole, scraped up against it, made the BOOM sound as the brake drums settled back to the ground and shook the cab a bit.

So I called up the fuel desk thinking that a company as large as SNI might have a security camera that was recording and we could look and see what happened. Of course, that'd be too much money out of some suits' pocket, so apparently we don't have anything like that. The lady at the fuel desk is quick to inform me however that I need to report it as an accident so I don't get charged with it.

I hang up and laugh and go look at the mirror and rub it with my thumb and the paint comes off, nothing other than a little bit of rubbed plastic... what can I do? Report yellow paint being rubbed on my mirror post? Yeah... nothing I can do. Still ****ed as **** that someone ran into something that hit my truck and didn't stop and the fact that the OC does not have a camera recording the lot...

After making the delivery I go to make my next pickup. Get there and FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS WEEK SOMEONE HAS STOLEN MY LOAD AND NOW I DON'T HAVE ONE. WHAT THE ****. I hate this ****. And I know what it is, people show up and their load is cancelled, so they ask for another one going the same place without thinking about the driver who is assigned this other load, and don't say anything to ops about it.

So I call support shift. Oh boy, let the fun begin. The guy pictured below answers the phone. (this is an animated gif so dunno if it will play on a phone, ignore it if it doesn't play it won't make sense)



Ok in his defense I think he was just new. He wasn't an ***hole so I'll give him that.

But Jesus. Where do we start.

So first, he has the verify that the load is gone. Which the guard has already verified and told me, but SNI has to verify for themselves because I'm just one of them there dumb*** truckdrivers that can't count to three.

So they call, after having me give them a number to call from the guard who just verified the trailer is gone, and get their own verification that the TRAILER HAS IN FACT LEFT THE YARD.

Now, I check the load board and there's another load exactly like mine still on the board. Ok no problem I'll just grab that one, right?

No problem except I have to explain to this guy from support shift how we have to do this because I ask him how he wants to handle this and he says he doesn't know how. I literally have to tell him, I need you to pull the loads off me so I can assign the new one. He pulls one off and says ok try now. So I try to assign. NO FEASIBLE SOLUTION. Alright, so I tell him, you need to remove ALL the loads, push my NAT back to this moment, THEN I can assign the load, then you can put the second load back on me.

He removes both loads this time, I assign the new one, then ask him to put the second one back on.

He doesn't know how.

So, I put the ST # in the load board. It's there. I assign it. Woo back in business.

Get the trailer # from the new load, give it to the guard. Nope this trailer left two days ago.

WHAT THE ****.

Ask the guard if there are any loaded trailers going to this place that are ready and if he doesn't mind just write them down and I'll call SNI and deal with this crap.

So he writes the trailer numbers down along with the BOL #s.

I go back to the truck and look at the BOL #s and one matches the trailer I was originally supposed to pick up, just in a different trailer. OH COME ON.

So I look at the work assignment.

But wait.

The new load isn't even leaving from this place.

OH MY GOD WHAT THE ****.

So apparently this second load on the board that I grabbed to try to save the day, although it appeared EXACTLY like the other load, same pay, same remarks, everything, leaves from A DIFFERENT SHIPPER. BUT THE GUARD JUST TOLD ME THIS EXACT TRAILER LEFT TWO DAYS AGO. AND NOW ITS MAGICALLY AT A DIFFERENT SHIPPER RIGHT HERE IN THE SAME CITY I'M PICKING UP FROM???

OK, ITS OFFICALLY **** THIS **** O'CLOCK.

Punch that location code in Navigo. Shows up as like TWO MILES AWAY from this shipper.

Well ****. I can either try dealing with SNI again on swapping out trailers and BOL #s and work assignments with the same guy from support shift again, or, just go down to the place this other load is supposed to be and see if its there?

PLAN B IT IS. Leave that shipper, go to the other one two miles down the road, surprisingly, THE TRAILER IS THERE (HOW, I DON'T KNOW, MUST HAVE BEEN SOME MAGIC TRAILER TELEPORTATION INVOLVED TO GET THAT THING BACK UP HERE THAT FAST), and I'm ON THE WAY SOUTH.

THANK YOU LITTLE BABY JESUS.

Well, day coulda been a lot worse all things considered. Gotta have one of these days from time to time to keep me on my toes.