Is dispatch/owner bonkers?

Its just the way the produce biz works---everyone makes delivery appts BEFORE they have a truck booked---let alone have it loaded---so the reality is nothing matters until you are loaded....then the calls are made to customer about arrival times---and every receiver on the planet understands this....and weather is an entirely different issue---if a road is closed its closed---and you wait.....welcome to winter...my statement--that this biz(produce)isnt for him...is the OPs attitude and lack of patience---because as it has been posted ad nauseam....produce is a different world---Ive done it all my life....you chill...you make you're picks---stay in contact w/your customer(the end user)and then you ride---its scheduled like everything else--and 3-4 days---from the Salinas area to central Mn is plenty of time to do this...under normal circumstances---you don't sched for weather--if it happens you adjust--simple as that...and in this case the routing out and over may work against him...but that is the nature of the beast....Im sure his boss(since they are obviously new at this)is jumpin up and down over this so called appt...Why--because its a holiday wknd---why--because there is a shortage of trucks--why--cuz some broker promised him a premium rate for doing it AND probably told him IF he gets this done--he load him every---blah blah blah...it's Winter the load goes to minne hahah----

 

Back in the 90s, I used to load anywhere from lettuce in Salinas to Berries from Watsonville, or carrots from Bakersfield or, a combination of some sort otherwise to either Hunts Point, South Water Market (Chicago) or Chelsea (Boston), twice a month with dry goods back to LA and TX, then frozen chicken out of Bryan, TX to San Diego, DH back up to the "Valley" to start all over again. 14,000 miles/month, at least about killed me. Some of you guys could probably do better but that was the best I could do with my worn-out old Freight Shaker and 48' Great Dane. But with all the BS I am doing hauling these ##### cars and trucks, I'd rather do this then ever pull a reefer again. South Water is gone now but from the posts I've been reading, Hunts Point hasn't changed nor has Chelsea. Chelsea actually wasn't all that bad. Philly was spacious as well.
Sorry about my rambling. I am stuck here in the truck stop and watching life ebb away.

 

Ive done 15,000 plus on paper logs in that FLD 120 a month for a number of months. It was a intense time to say the least. Legal? No. But made it work.

That paled in the team operation miles per week which was at least 7000 on the ground during two turns across the USA LA to Jersey weekly for months on end. It's mind bending. Wake up in Holbrook, go to sleep in LA find myself back in Holbrook going to roughly Armarillo or something. Ugh.

 

I know. ive done so many of those. Once Lancaster Alumimum off 30 to Idabel Ok on the Red River Valley Overnight. THAT was a trip. Back in them days Little Rock 440 at night was new, polished and wide open at 100 plus. BOOM and 30 was a herd once you settled in on it southeastbound for the scales at Hope.

Dispatch said it's Uncle Sam's Metal and it must be there 8 am monday sharp or they will be looking to fire my butt. It was there 4 minutes to the good with liquid dew water pouring off the plastic wrappings due to the extreme overnight changes in temp and climate.

 

No one is doing 700 miles a day regularly with any sort of governed truck on legal books. Traffic and rest stops alone slow a driver down.

My best average speed over a 830 km (516 mile) trip in a 105 km/h (65 mph) truck was 93 km/h (57.8 mph). That was with the bare minimum number of stops for load checks with fast bathroom breaks and eating while driving. No construction delays. No traffic (was on a Sunday). Nothing.

 

Coulda cut across at the 44 through Nashville, hit the 10 miles of low weight road and come out between broken bow and Idabel. I better hush I'm givin away cow haulers secrets

 

I thought about that 44 that night. Was not sure if it was tolled or not according to map, it was literally my first venture that far west and south so I stayed with what I knew, straight down 81, 40 then 30. It worked out well.

Many years later I probably would have taken 44. cut some time off that run. That south piney texas back roads were a bit of work.