Location for the night

Trust me, I wanted nothing more than to rip into this guy but I was on a tight schedule and I don't get paid to bicker with losers in parking lots. The last thing I said to him was "I hope you have a better day tomorrow." Kill em with kindness ya know? Double edged kindness maybe but still nice nonetheless.

 

Carlisle Oc..believe it or not. This is the best OC.

 

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a relay in Seville from a company driver. Not only was he on time but he handed me a scale ticket. This was a 11,000 pound load of potato chips. He proceeds to tell me he knew he didn't need to scale it but it was how he was trained. Well done driver. I actually took the time to call my icr,along with his truck number. Some guys, it seems to me you want to hold on to.

 

re: scaling. my second trip out on my own, i was carrying some sort of crated steel that didn't fit on the back end by about a foot....so, at my behest, it got stacked on top beginning right at the nose....
i passed the canadian scales, passed an illinois scale and then got called in at a missouri scale--2500# overweight on my drives. i was shaking from being called in, totally forgot all my training and managed to break the landing gear on the flatbed, was handed a $300+ ticket, still had to unstrap/untarp everything once i found someone in the nearby town to change around my load(another $100)...oh, and for those wondering why i was able to pass the illinois scale--my air bags on my trailer had gotten something jammed in a line and i was driving them deflated(apparently that drops the weight back on a trailer by about 2000#...got that fixed before crossing the missouri scale) all that to say, I scale anything and everything if i'm even remotely unsure....and definitely anything over 20,000 #....heck, even if a company has their own scales, i still go and CAT scale it. NEVER AGAIN!!!

and re: location: doing my reset at an RV park in south Alberta, Canada....the only truck stop doesn't have showers and i need a shower. there's a golf course right beside the park so a game will be happening tomorrow; there's a river to swim in and who knows what other hi jinx i'll find myself getting up to for the next night and day....

 

I'm Wayside York, NE on way to Rockford. A little behind the 8 ball.


Be Safe Out There



Captain Dave

 

Unload and load the same day...and found a spot near Detroit rest area around 2200! Now I just need a shower.....

 

You can't fix stupid.

 

Eden ID peelot

 

You know how you can tell an IC was never a company driver here? They lecture on scaling a load above 30 k, which is policy to scale at!!!

 

Except for the tracks. Oh and the cow #### smell. But yes, very nice folks, decent enough shop and well organized lot.