Good Night From II

New Boston, MI.

After delivering my load in Lansing I tried to find a suitable mt for my next load. GM requires a trailer no more then 10 years old and mine was a 2000.
I'm told to look for trailer 080xxx at my location, but no luck after an hour of looking.
I'm told to go to the terminal in New Boston. When I get here I'm told they don't have anything for me, and I could check back in the morning. They wanted my mt, though.
So I go to the truck stop on the corner and let my DM know what is happening. He says to do a mac 22, so I do.
Not long after I get a message from a planner to bobtail to the pick up. It's JIT and HAS to pu and del on time!
Cool.
Except that I wasted 3 hours of precious time, since I am running on recap.
It's a nice load, from Flint to Aurora, CO. 1300 miles.
It delivers the morning of the 11th, and my home time is set for the 15th in Denver. So hopefully I'll get a couple loads bouncing me between Salt Lake or Phoenix and back.

 

AT home Kirkland, Wa
in five more days I head to SLC to buy my replacement truck. I've been driving a 2000 Freightliner Century (ex Interstate Distributers truck) and I'm replacing it with a 2011 387 Peterbuilt (Ex US Xpress truck). Looking forward to having a working ac and a dash that is attached to something.

 

t/a inwheat ridge co. delivered the tequila load to southern wine and spirits. didnt take long to unload me. got a preplan that p/u in waste management in denver going to prewitt nm. mac 9 with times i could p/u since they wanted me to p/u at same time as my appt for final at sw&s lol. got approves, so i accepted it only to have it removed few minutes later. see how long i sit today.

 

Edwardsville getting a pulley and belt tensioner replaced. My energy levels have been shot for weeks, it may be time to get off the truck after three months.

 

Ozona, TX. I really screwed up. Did not look at my pplan completely the other day. Missed the final sentence that said Must be Tanker Endorsed. If I would have seen that, I would have declined this pplan. It is 15 totes of sloshing liquid. It is playing heck with MPG. I know the shipper and every time that I have picked up at Bayer, it has always been either bags or boxes. The first for totes.

 

denver terminal. finally got a preplan. p/u here at terminal going to torronce ca on monday 0700 appt. driver be here around 2300 with the load, so i'll just get up early tomorrow and head out. then do some local work monday hopefully. told dl i was taking a 34 reset tuesday to get some stuff done

 

got a nice load of animal crackers from nogales, az heading to san bernadino, ca. gotta put the truck in the shop because the air condition went out.

 

bsquek... think they passed that law recently where if you are hauling liquids in tote that tanker endorsement may be required

 

It is required. If I would have seen that last sentence on the pplan then I would have refused because I would have known that it was going to be totes.

 

flying j in beaver ut for the night. drive to mira loma tomorrow. load doesnt deliver till 08/11 0700. about 9500 in the box.