Good Night From II

Our youngest has Autism as well and an overnight trip if you know the plan and where your staying could be a lot of fun. But if you know foos issues, booster seat, what he needs to sleep etc you can go through possible problems. I am assuming he's been in your truck before, Ethan loved to jump around in the big truck.

As for getting rid of kids for a week or two that'd be nice my 14 year old could go but we don't have that much data in our plan to handle a bored teen on the road.

 

Westel, TN. Drop in the morning and no pplan to get home. Go figure. Decatur planners, weekend, and sooooo hard to get me a load from the Knoxville area to the Columbus terminal. Guess that I see a nice 360 mile bobtail in the morning to get home. Really doubt if nothing by now that the ECT planners will bother looking. Was hoping to run the weekend. Oh well

 

Maybe it's because I'm on GLR, but I am constantly turning down loads because it's Tuesday and the pre plan delivers on Thursday and I have crap for miles so far for the week. Then I call the planner and they get me set up with something decent to finish off the pay period. This seems to happen almost every week, unless I talk to a planner first and get stacked ahead of time. And I know that GLR is planned with Plus 1 because I've talked to a planner about it before.

To be honest, I don't really know how that whole Plus 1 system really works. I do know for a fact that a computer program doesn't plan my loads because every pre plan that I get has a planners name at the bottom of it. Every time. So that tells me that a planner is looking at my truck, looking at available times and hours, locations and what loads are available.

 

I'm in SLC. First went to Idaho and grabbed a load from Americold in Burley, they burned what hours I had left (preloaded my ###.) Then I dropped that in West valley to pick up another going to Arkansas. But while I was sitting in Idaho, my truck gave me an over speed and hard braking event before I even turned the ignition over, got that cleared up. Went to the pre-qual lane in West valley, now I'll need a new speed sensor for the tranny, a new carrier bearing for the drive shaft, and a new oil cooler (recall work.) So I'll be here a day minimum probably.

I knew there had to be a good reason someone turned in this 680.

 

Edwardsville this weekend. Getting a b-service on the truck and some other items looked at. They said most likely tomorrow for the b-service. I planned on a 34 here anyway.

 

Edwardsville + weekend = 34, whether you want it or not.

Well, 8 to 10 days at home as turned into 2 weeks. Been waiting on a part for the sleeper AC for a week now.

 

Still here in Dandridge. Today the planners in Decator offered me a load to Alabama for Monday, 350 miles and no back up home. Then one to Atlanta for Monday, all of 235 miles, no back up home. If Decatur can not get me home from here, would hate to be in Atlanta on a Monday trying to get home. Can never fugure this out, live near one of the largest terminals, the crossroads of Ohio, and can hardly ever get a load home. If nothing when wake in the morning, going to just put it in the wind and say the heck with it. Done

 

Picked up a student in Lancaster yesterday, and rolling thru Kentucky to T-call a 44.5K load in Columbus. Then back on my dedicated route.

The problem with running recaps is that the planners don't look at what you're getting back. You can be getting 10 hours back every night for the next few days, but that won't give you a load that you can't deliver on what you have on your 70. Even if it picks up tomorrow.