Good Night From II

Thanks and the reason for waiting until daylight.

 

Heyburn, ID at the Love's. Headed to Grandview, WA with a P&G load. Good thing I have a generous window as I don't have enough time on my 70 tomorrow to make it. Gonna drop it on Saturday then take a 34 in Moses Lake to see my mom and get my truck aligned.

 

t/s in adelanto ca. was in prequall line for about an hour. took shop an hour to put new airlines on(didnt have fixtures in stock). still had 2 hrs on the clock,so drove up here and grabbed another empty for tomorrow morning start. hopefully can do 3 trips this time. gonna take saturday off and go find a storage space for my toyhauler. seem to not able to get in touch with my freind
and thats where my trailers at his house in cal. city. hems hardly home anymore, so i need to find a more secure spot

 

today went to west hills then Palmdale, West Hills was a pain on the way back, accident at the intersection once you leave the store and then the lights and heavy traffic, it took me almost a hour to get back on the 118 which is about 6 or 7 miles from the store. Tomorrow going to Grenada Hills and Porterville, a new driver to the fleet said he used his comdata card to pay for scale tickets when a driver was complaining about running out of money to keep paying for them, I tried the card for the first time today and it worked, I will no longer be forking out my cash on scale tickets.

 

At my brothers in AL enjoying a couple days off. Back in the saddle in the morning though.

Already have three loads stacked to keep me rolling till Tuesday morning.

 

Wellington, UT. Was getting ready to pull in here while waiting for a tour bus to pull out and all of a sudden, BANG. A pickup slammed into the side of the bus. The 3 occupants all taken away in the 2 ambulances. Guess to get checked out. Watched them get out of the pick up. Windshield was all smashed. No on was wearing a seat belt.

This morning was great. Winds died down and no snow, just COLD. Drop in the afternoon. If I remember correct we still pull out of there in Los Lunas with a office, and I think that we can park there overnight. Correct me if wrong. No pplan yet. My DM has been dropping the ball lately when I am delivering on a weekend.

 

TA in Morris, supposed to be 38 degrees tonight. Ironically, all of my cold weather gear is still in Texas.

 

New Boston, MI.

T-called my load, and I pick up in Detroit tomorrow sometime.
I'll be headed to NC for a Monday morning delivery.

Headed over to the little truck stop here.
When I got out of my truck there was a driver (not Swift) complaining that his load was way too heavy in the front and he couldn't get it legal.
I looked at his scale tickets (3 so far), and yup, either the drives or the trailer had at least 34-35k.
I told him he could probably get the 78.8k load to scale legal if he would only slide his fifth wheel, since the steers were at less than 10k.
I had to run in to the little boys room, and when I came back out 5 minutes later he was gone. Not sure what he is planning, but I don't think he had a clue about moving the 5th wheel.

 

Far as I know we still have the contract at the Walmart DC in Los Lunas. I've spent the night there when I ran surge and so long as you park in the Swift bobtail parking and don't idle you should be fine. Fuel is cheap there as well.

 

At the TA in Boise, ID. I stopped here to see if they had any steer tires in stock and if they could align my truck. On-road answered the phone with no delay and I did the whole thing on the national account.

Turned out my truck needed an alignment BAD, hopefully that and a new set of steers will solve my issues.