Good Night From II

Commerce, GA. Very long day.

 

Still here where I last was, and still no load assignment.
I was told to show up tomorrow at 0830 and something might be available.

And I'm still not getting the pay I was promised after the third week here.
I got two messages today about the pay, amounting to another $65 or so - when I am owed over $900.

I called to speak with the person in charge of it, and was put off. He was talking to another driver when I called, and then left for the day without calling me back.
I'm getting really tired of this account, again.

I'll be a happy camper if I ever get paid, so I am retaining some hope.

 

This is why I will not help on Surge any more. Was burned royally when helping at Moberly once. I was given the stop pay of Wal-Mart company trucks, not our L/O stop pay.

 

redding ca at the t/a. picked up the load in portland or. had to go to their other warehouse(2miles away) to get rest of product and paperwork.fueled at t/a in aurora or and ended up taken a 3? min break since i had been there 20 min. drove the 404 miles straight.made a quick stop on offramp to drain some coffee. rest area was closed . got here at t/a with 5 min left on 70. p/u 9h32m tomorrow and 10h17 next day. dont have to be in riverside till 09/07 2200. gonna try and tcall it saturday. then i'll start on the walmart blitz

 

Camped at a nice rest area half way between Witchita Falls TX and Amarillo on Hwy 287.

Wrapped up hometime and went to shipper in Pasadena for a very heavy live load. After signing in a very rude, obnoxious fugly gal told me I have no appt for load though my p/u# was valid. Thanks CSRs for rising to your level of incompetence again. The window gal assigned me a dock and said we'll get to you whenever. I figured that's better than nothing. To my pleasant surprise they had me loaded in less than two hours.

Not a bad day overall except for traffic slowdowns in Ft Worth for I-35W construction. On towards Ogden UT after my 10

 

Monticello, AR at the Walmart. Humid, but only 75ºF, so we aren't idling to keep the local constabulary away. Tomorrow we pick up a short haul to t-call in Memphis, and hopefully will get something resembling a long haul out for the weekend.

It's odd, but my trainee has over 70 hours BTW, we took a 34 in Memphis and went to team, but we still haven't received our 50 hour calls from driver development. Methinks they are understaffed.

 

Oh happy joy. My new DM commits her drivers to loads, including owners, and doesn't allow loads to be turned down without talking to her first. And of. ourse the first thing I get thrown this morning is a load with 10% empty miles.

 

taking my 30 min break at a reast area north of patterson ca. got a message to tcall load saturday injurupa valley terminal. they want me to do a 34 reset so i can have a fresh 70 for monday walmart loads

 

Palestine, AR at the Love's. Just unsuccessfully scaled a load. With 3/8 of a tank we are still over on the drives and just got advise we need to go back 140 miles to the customer in Montecillo, AR. Waiting to hear how soon the customer will be available to rework the load.

This was a good exercise in how to scale a load and make adjustments for my trainee, and how to handle an overweight situation.