Good Night From II

I'm trying to rationalize how a bowed roof is "acceptable". The trailer is an engineered box, the roof is part of the support system, if the roof is bowed in, quite possibly the only thing keeping the walls straight is the freight. What's going to happen when they unload it? ... personally I would have refused to pull it.

Trucks fixed ... need to find a load that's not going to send me to a black hole.

 

Coolville, OH.

Oh yeah, baby, it's cool!
Well, cool enough to find the last parking spot in the little truck stop here in this little town at 0045.

I got to my pick up in Washington, WV at 2030 for a 2100 appointment. Then I waited for 2.5 hours to get a door.
After that it went quickly. About 45 minutes to load me up.

Now I'm headed to MN to deliver 1.5 days late, and I'm just hoping there is not a long delay when I get there.
It is my load to home time, also a day late, and I'm hoping my sister can pick me up from the terminal that late.

 

If it helIf anyone the scales at Morris are wrong. Gives you an idea if your balanced but don't go by it. I was the last week and after 5 times moving my tandems and to the same holes twice I went across the street to put and weighed. Scales at Costco said I was about 77000. I was at 79980. Don't know if they clipped it with one of the big loaders moving snow but it's off.
And Kymi, that's some bull. I would of refused it and told them badly damaged trailer. I have said it before, I hate that place. I have yet to get a load out of the that did not have some kind of problem on one end our the other.

 

fr8monkey...sent you a pm.

 

Phoenix Terminal. Deliver shopping carts to a Walmart store in the AM than a B-service, and much needed truck wash tomorrow. I ate at the cafe in the drivers center today. I was going to crack a joke at how it had been a long time since I had ate Army chow, but I'm just grateful it was there, and I didn't have to order $20 of Chinese food like most terminals.

 

They have good food, if you are there when they are open.

 

TA in Corning, CA. I delivered my load to Walmart up in Red Bluff, a nice easy drop and hook and snagged a really nice easy pulling empty. However, not a peep on Mac-30 and pushed several times today to let them know I want to get to Lathrop for my home time.

From the time I got into Walmart to the time I got out the fog was thickening noticeably. I knocked off early last night (about 2:30 am) in the lower San Juaquin Valley due to the fog slowing me down. It left 400 miles today, but better to drive it during daylight when there isn't any fog.

Hopefully tomorrow morning will have something t-calling in Lathrop.

I'm surprised the parking in this TA is WIDE OPEN. At least 1/3 to 1/2 of the parking lot is empty at 9:00 pm. I found a nice quiet spot way in the back, between a couple of guys that parked nose in and not a reefer to be had for a hundred yards. Very few trucks are idling. Should be a good night's sleep.

 

Here in Baguio up in the mountains enjoying this vacation. View attachment 78389

 

riverside ca. did 2 live loads yesterday in chino ca then dropped it at ross dc in perris ca. asked for another local run, still has 7 hrs on 14. p/u at jv terminal going for a live unload in fullerton ca. picked up trailer and shop put paper in electric plug box saying flat tire. took it to tire shop to replace 2 tires. @$&. seems i'm always the lucky one to get trailers there that have flat tires. took them just over an hour to fix. by time the final got me unloaded, only had 1.5 hrs and since i had to p/u in vernon this morning, spent the night at the intermodal yard in montebello

 

delivered that vernon load to ross today with no issues. got another load picking up here in riverside and delivers to that walmart at our terminal in jv