My Truck, My Choice, Out of Denver, Colorado

I went to the shipper a hour early hoping the load would be ready and to my surprise, it was. Interesting thing though, there was no one at the shipper, just a box with about a hundred BOLs thrown in it and I needed to dig through them all to find mine. After 10 minutes of sifting through the mess I found my bills and dropped my trailer for another SNI driver there looking for an MT and found my load around the other side of the building. I have never seen anything like that before. Anyway, I drove the 480 miles to my first stop and I'm now waiting behind the customer for a 7am delivery. I will then drive 60 miles to the second delivery and then 184 miles to my 6pm live load tomorrow evening.

Nothing really exciting today. I skirted the ice storm by about 50 miles. Lots of mist and temps in the 30s, but no ice. I'm hoping tomorrow is as good for me in regards to the weather.

 

Yup, I'm making my list of who's naughty or nice!

 

No real issues. The work flow thing is different for me, but makes sense and is pretty straight forward. I'm used to sending macros for everything that work flow does. The biggest stress is hoping the truck keeps rolling and stays healthy for a few months. The other stress is finding a load going east out of Denver that pays more than 98 cents per mile! I'm going home for a few days after I deliver in Loveland Tuesday and I'm looking at the loads for next weekend into Monday and they all seem to be beer loads mostly going west or stupid cheap beer loads going east. I'm going to wait until Wednesday or Thursday to choose my punishment hoping something a little less painful pops up. It does balance out with my 750 mile $2.25 cpm load going home, but it's still a kick in the nuts! So other than those things, I feel pretty comfortable with the program. The real test will be when I come out of the house next week to bounce around the Midwest. It will be interesting to see what I can put together. Seems most people on here run northeast, southeast, east, ect. I did see Atrucker runs out of CA. I've been out for almost two weeks now with picking up the truck and orientation, so home looks nice in two days!

 

Left Neosha MO early this morning. Stopped in Salina, KS for fuel and lunch. Heading west on 70. Should be home tomorrow morning sometime.