Good Night From II

Thanks for the inspiring image.
A monkey with a football?
Where did you ever come up with that one?!

But they haven't stopped with Plus-1.
There is the new program that 'helps' us with trip planning.
It is sent with every pplan.

I look at it from time to time just to get a good laugh.

 

Frank really appreciate your last couple replies. Love a convoluted sense of humor.

As Moosetek said, we're not really forced dispatch. Simply have to learn the "system" and how to play it to your advantage.

Ended up with a Georgia Pacific, 15k load going from Zachary LA to Elwood IL, preloaded/drop. I'll run 500 again tomorrow which will give me 3k again for the week. If I could get past this starter cpm pay rate I may start seeing some money. Honestly, being this new and having zero experience prior, I have no complaints. I just need to vent sometimes. That's my own personality disorder.[emoji12]

 

At home, working Steve to the bone. He's going to be happy to go out again just to get away from my honey do work. But you should see my laundry room, oh lah lah!

 

I finally got out of billings, but not before I completed a 34 hour reset...yeah, no joke! Got to speak with Houstank while he sat waiting for an ordered part to arrive...he's a cool guy, if you haven't met him. Worland Crown Cork & Seal load bound for San Bernardino. I was so excited that I ran through the night to pickup and drove to Little America WY, where I decided to stop. I've been awake since yesterday @ 06:00, so I am really looking forward to sleep, since I was up for 27 hours. Something about that 30 minutes before sunrise puts me near coma state, but then I get a boost after sunrise, it almost never deviates!

 

Horse Cave Ky at the Loves. Miles have been sub 500 a load, but they've kept me moving. Yesterday's 11 hour live load at ConAgra was a hiccup, but it's done. The past three loads have been pick up in IN, deliver in Louisville area, pick up in Buckner, deliver in Indianapolis, and tomorrow's pick up in central KY and deliver in Indianapolis. It could be worse, I could be sitting, but I wouldn't mind some miles and getting off I- 65.

 

Every Mac 30 I've sent comes up with the exact same load offers to Carlisle, PA to move me 131 miles away.

But I got a pplan an hour ago that is much better.
Pick up 30 miles away tomorrow morning and deliver in IA on the 14th.
It's a live unload at 2200, though. I don't like that part. I guess I'll call the customer and see if I can delivery it any earlier.

It gets me out of PA and back west, and hopefully I can get my home time load to MN from there.
Home time was set for the 14th, so I may only be a day or so late.

I'm glad I ignored all those Mac 30 loads. It would have put me 3 hours in the opposite direction from this load.

 

I sure hope you mean it delivers on the 14th and not 24th!! Lol.

 

Yes.
Thanks.
I usually proof read better than that.

I must be half brain dead after sitting so long waiting for a real load.

 

Living on the edge friends. Shut down at the Loves in West Memphis. If ya'll don't hear from me in a couple of days send out search and rescue.

Under 500 to go tomorrow for this drop. The drop at WallyWorld DC in Robert LA was interesting. Under 15 mins to do the d&h, then an hour and seven minutes to get my paper work signed. Thought I'd be late to pick up this one in Zachary but was in time. Georgia Pacific there was "new" for me. Drove the maze entry to bump a trailer inspection dock. The over the duel scale second guard shack. Load ended up being 8k instead of fifteen so an easy ride up I-55.

Will update my eta/pta in the morning, and see what the next excellent adventure brings.

LOL Witchywoman you sound like my wife, I have to get back on the road just to get some down time. Do you hand him "the list" before or after the I'm home hug??

 

Their trip plans are good for a laugh. I especially like it when that planning software suggests that a trip from Denver to Jackson, MS on US routes through the ozarks should take a total of 9 1/2 hours. I was rolling when I saw that one. I had to look twice.

Playing football in high school was where that image came from. Coach told us linebackers that we looked like a bunch of monkeys f'n a football. I suppose it ment we were either fooling ourselves or maybe we just looked sloppy.

Love's - US54 - Hooker, OK