Trans Am Still

most company drivers are sheep. once they are parked they aint going no where. plus with elogs moving even 5 minutes away will most likely start your clock.

 

honeybadger, are you still in CO?

12:45pm Central Time
Driver tip
WARNING! I-25 NORTH BOUND COLORADO AT EXIT 210 A- AURORIA EXIT. TRAFFIC IS BEING DIVERTED OFF THE HIGHWAY TO COLFAX AVENUE.

 

Never figured that I would be dead headed to omaha but then, I forgot that today was Saturday also.

 

Man!!! The flies here at this chicken place, are thicker than thieves!! Only good thing is this cute Mexican chick taking care of trash and leaning against my trailer. *sighs* . No speakee the english.

 

Currently in caddo mills ,tx at the pilot taking my break. The load doesnt deliver until 8pm tommorrow so I will be sitting. Dot in tx had open the weight scales pulling in random trucks for inspections. I saw a lot of truckers getting citations.

 

Made an early morning delivery near Atlanta, preplan was then to meet a swap to take a load to Northern Florida today but that was cancelled. Waited until noon to get a load in Alabama going to central Texas. I'll have 5 hours tonight and all of tomorrow to drive 570 miles.

 

Seems like TA sure has a lot of swaps , I don't hear about that much with other companies.

Why is that , is it just a TA thing or do a lot of companies do this ?

 

^ I make it a point to never need to have my load swapped out if I can help it. If I can wait to have a repair done when I am empty, that is what I will do.

If I get a swap it is as Cranky said, that another driver's load is late for some reason. Sometimes it is late coming out of the plant. On-time delivery is the competitive battle ground, especially in temp controlled loads and I think TransAm does take it seriously.

If my load is running on time and my new swap load is running on time, it is usually a case of using a swap to route the other driver so (s)he can take home time.