My journey with Orange starts

I rn into the same thing in Indianapolis. All the decent trailers had kingpin locks on them. I picked up one that had a flat, mudflap was falling off and a light was out. Went straight to Express maintenance, got it fixed and headed down the road. I hate wasting time looking for empties. (Chicago is by far the worst)

 

just started teaming with my brother about 2 weeks ago. I thought we might have pissed dispatch off. . We have also been getting short runs. Currently in Ohio, headed to Wisconsin then down to Dallas.. it has been mostly 500-700 mile runs for us.. After we drop and hook in Dallas, we will be picking up a relay and driving 33 miles for a live unload........

I really do hope freight picks up soon..

 

I Have been told that by the end of february it'll start picking up. The last two weeks have been rough. Normally I don't have time to post this much but since I'm sitting 2-5 hours a day waiting on shippers or receivers to empty the trailer I have time. I'm sitting in Springfield Missouri headed to a Walmart DC in Menomonie, WI.

It could be worse....the weather is favorable this week!

 

That is true, it could be a lot worse. I am looking forward to the 50+ degree weather in Dallas this week.

 

Just got my follow on.....We will be delivering by 0200 in Wisconsin and have a 10 a.m. appointment 58 miles away. Live load of course headed for S.C. It will give us 4900 hard earned miles for the week.

 

Thats about what we are doing for the week after we deliver in Dallas. We should be in New Berlin, WI. at about 200 as well.

 

I don't know if I would use WD-40 on the brakes. It acts as a lubricant and I wouldn't want that on my brakes. Also not sure how the chemicals would affect/damage the shoes.

 

Finally get an assignment with some "meat" on it. Time sensitive load from Lenexa, KS to Hagerstown, MD (1100 miles). We were in Lenexa by 2 p.m. and couldn't PU until 1:00 am. Did the 3 way and let them know we wouldn't have any issue getting the load there on time. Showed up at shipper and they were a half hour late getting it loaded. Checked the mileage and it's 72 miles further than what was planned for. Stopped at the Edwardsville OC for fuel and they told us the trailer needed repairs and we couldn't leave until it was done. That took an hour of our time. So...we lost an hour and a half on a time sensitive assignment and had to drive straight through just to get the load there on time. We were 20 minutes early.

Sitting again waiting to get another load at the same place head to Texas. Have to wait 8 hours for that one to be ready. When we arrive in Texas they want to do a PM-B on our truck even though I had a PM-A done two weeks ago. We'll lose a lot of time for that one. So it looks like this week will be a low week also. By Thursday evening we might have 3600 miles. Hoping for a couple good loads to at least hit 5000 miles for the week. We will see!