My journey with Orange starts

418 yesterday and this AM. Drove till 01:45 this AM. Got to shipper at 14:40 yesterday for my 15:00 appointment. Was told no trailers leave till after 17:00. WTF. Why make appointment for 15:00 than? So I have to wait to 17:00. By then at least 12 other drivers show up between 15:00 and 17:00. All told the same thing. I was the only orange there. 8 Swift drivers and 4 O/O. When your load is ready, some one walks the paper work out to a mailbox and drop it off there and you have to go look at the paperwork to see if it is yours or not. It was like a bunch of piranhas and a feeding frenzy when someone walked out to drop off paper work. A lot of pissed off drivers. My trailer was pulled from the dock at 17:20. 2 different people walked out and dropped off paper work. Not mine. Finally at 18:15, my paperwork is read and dropped in the mailbox. I hit the lotto feeling. This place sucks. People don't seem happy to be working there and it's like pulling teeth to get an answer a simple from them. You are not allowed in the building at all. There is a sign that tells you how the process works. God forbid you want to talk to soneone since its your 1st time there.

In Crossroads, you can now rate shippers/receivers. Well I did. Bet you can guess how they did.

At this point, had only driven the 17 miles from Klamath Falls to Chiloquin in the last 23.5 hours. Not real happy about that. So I decided to drive to the OC for the night. As I got closer to Portland, I decided to drive to Sumner since I could be there without taking a 30 minute break.

To tired to go home, so I just stayed in my truck for the night. Woke up this morning and had a large nail in my #5 tire. Great. Called SEM.

Only 15 miles to 1st drop with 13:00 appointment. My 10 will be up at 11:45. Plenty of time to to destination.

New pre assignment to to P/U load in Sumner to headed 2423 miles to Shellyville TN. Sure that will change to drop and relay off in either Sumner or Portland.

 

You got that right 91B20H8. We all like being the windshield.

192 miles yesterday. 87 of those miles between midnight and 02:00. Made all deliveries by appointment time.

Pre assignment was to DH 55 miles to Sumner for a D/H and then relay the load in Portland.

Get to the gate at the OC and 2 check lights come on. Error code said line heat (DEF) problem. Truck now in shop. They said at least 2 hours to fix. Last time I had a DEF problem, it took 2 days for repairs.

Another day as the bug.

 

305 miles yesterday. Truck was done with repairs at 12:30. Pre assignment was a 2 stop live load in Portland going to Redlands CA. A nice 1016 miles run. Spent the next 3 hours hunting for trailers. Everyplace I was sent, no trailers or still loaded. Finally at 15:30, DBL just cancelled load to told me to return back to the OC.

On way back to OC, new pre assignment was to BT the 147 miles back to Sumner and P/U relay headed to 710 miles to Woodland CA for a D/H, I headed back to Sumner for the night since my 14 was almost up.

610 miles today. Made it to Corning CA for the night. Will drop early AM tomorrow.

New pre assignment is to DH 22 miles to Sacramento to P/U relay and head 549 miles to Woodburn OR. Have a live unload appointment on Monday at 11:30.

Hours are real short since I don't start running on recap for 2 more days. I was not budgeting them all week thinking I was going to do my reset on the weekend. Nope. The last 2 out of 3 weeks, no reset. No heads up from DBL that I was not getting reset.

2216 miles last week. Better than the 2062 miles the previous week. I hope miles will start getting better soon or will start to rethink this PNW fleet thing.

Next week, I will be off 1-6 to go visit my daughter. So some nice TAH.

 

561 miles today. P/U relay in Sacramento. Also dropped an MT at another location 22 miles away and then returned to Sacramento.

Start running on recaps at midnight. Only 2 hours left on my 70. Get 10 hours back at midnight.

Stopped at Rice Hill for the night.

 

165 miles today. Delivered load in Woodburn.

New pre assignment to to DH 52 miles to Lebanon for a D/H tomorrow at 07:00. Head North 221 miles to Tacoma for another D/H.

Spending the night at a small T/S at exit 228. Only 10 miles to P/U in the AM.