Your at the right spot. But I need it in a warehouse just a few miles away. Follow me in my car!

Another one, think I might have posted this one someplace else. Loading wool at a farm in Mt., N. of Gillette, Wyo.. Directions from dispatch: Stop at the Grocery in Biddle, Mt. and call customer. Well, first off, calling Biddle a town, and the "store" a grocery store, would be akin to suggesting that I'm married to a supermodel, she isn't, I'm not.

Farmer, well, you can take 59 N. to US 212 and I'll meet you there, or you can take the back way.

I'll take the backway,
ok, write this down.

Me: No pen or paper, ok I'm writing
Farmer: I'm being serious
Clerk: He's being serious, here's the pen and paper.

Ok, go north to Belle Creek Rd, turn right, go 3 miles and take a left at the fork, go 2 miles and take the right fork the left fork dead ends about 50 yds up, then take the next 3 left forks, when you get to the green gate, make sure you close it after you drive through. If you encounter any water on the dirt road, stay to the side, do not go through the middle. It should take you 45 minutes to get here, if you're not here in an hour, I'll assume you got lost or got stuck. If you make it to the oil tanks, you've gone 6 miles to far and you need to come back 3 miles. Oh, and if you get stuck in one of those "puddles" my tractor might not be large enough to pull you out. Got it.

An hour later I arrived, my truck was no longer white, but a dusty shade of brown, and those "roads" were never designed for a tractor and a 53' van trailer. Needless to say, when I left, I took 212 back to 59.

 

Delivering dairy chemicals to local distributors in central and northern Wisconsin. Get to the receiver address, they come out and say "no room for the product here, we need to take to the warehouse". Follow his p/u 10 miles, gravel farm roads with crazy center crown, no shoulder, 4' culvert, and a twin track cut through the snow ice on the untreated roads. White knuckle the whole way out to the farm. Glad I didn't have oncoming traffic. Getting out empty (40k lighter) was worse. Only had that winter run one time...

 

geez you get all the fun while I get hand drawn maps

 

Reminds me of another, perhaps a downside to hauling containers. Delivered new patio furniture to the mid point chalet, and top of the mtn. chalet at the Steamboat Springs ski area. The fire road was never designed for a semi of any size, my road tractor and a 40' container. I was following a dump truck up, every turn was a 10 pt. for him. I had a loader behind me to "nudge" my trailer on the turns. Took 4 hrs to get to Steamboat, then 90 minutes to get to the top of the mtn., 30 minutes to unload, then I had to drive back to the mid point, with same loader "nudging" my trailer on corners. Mid point took 2 hrs to unload, then a drive down the mountain and a 4 hr drive back to Denver.

 

I've had two...the first was picking up pine straw somewhere in Florida, probably 10 years ago. Found the shop okay, had to call and get walked in over the phone to where they were actually loading the trucks. Managed to get turned around coming back out too, which was really fun. The kicker was I was delivering it to a landscaper at a job site, which according to every map in the universe did not actually exist. Had to get creative in finding someone there to call to get directions to the housing development they were doing the shrubbery for, and sit there all day while they pulled it off one bale at a time and sprinkled it gently on the bloody petunias.

Did a delivery a couple months ago to an oilfield supply place in KS, directions said to call the owner when I was an hour out. He was playing a AAA baseball game, hopefully it would be over before I got there...the plan was to meet at the baseball field and I'd follow him to the business. I got there, he was already sitting in his Jeep, flashed my lights at him and he took off, I followed this dude about 5 miles through little residential poop all squiggly like, finally got there...it's right where I thought it was, and I could've just come up from US54 and made a right past the tracks. Ah, well, got the grand tour anyways.

 

Pulling a cattle pot probably 50% or more of our loads/unloads are following a guy back into the sticks. Only time we dont is if we are going to a feedlot or sale barn. Still gotta call them for directions sometimes though.

 

Wyoming is big sheep country. Theyre a pain to deal with and they graze them in the worst places. Ive gone hours on one lane "roads" if you want to call them that to pull those critters out,but its #### good money.