The journey begins - purchased a truck.

Yes! Kinda happy about that.

 

The week recap.

Last week was a bit of a blur. I waited on my 34 hour restart and left as soon as it was up. Garners installed the starter and replaced the air dryer. Ran 3 loads of frames, finished up on Monday morning and headed back to the house.

The agent called about the storm shelters on the way into KC, I asked him to give me an hour to find out whether or not I was going to have empties on, then called him back and arranged the details.

Dropped the truck off to Garners again. They installed the inverter, the FS2500 filtration system (thanks @Cowpie1) and . . . wait for an edit - gotta go.

 

It's never quite right . . .

This morning I was looking at a load paying 2.10/mile for 45,000 lbs, and thought, Nahh - too heavy for too cheap. Was only going about 360 miles, but in the direction I wanted with the timing I needed. So - I opted for a longer dead head to St. Louis to get one for the morning going 250 miles or so to Louisville - put me right on time for the Sat am apt on the frames. Cool.

All sorted. Off to deliver the shelters. When I'm done - I see the same load - different agency code - 53 foot NEEDED - now $4.35/mile. I think Betsy could have handled the added weight for that rate. I rang the guy in the afternoon after it kept being re-posted and gave him my details, told him the story of the rate change, told him to keep me in mind.

I could have rang the St Louis load back and cancelled on him, just felt obliged to make good on my word - may need him again anyhow.