Good Night From II

Ms. Jamie, you need to take up fly fishing and you won't want to leave. I could spend a week around Missoula fishing world renowned trout streams and not hit the same water twice.

Frank

 

I took a 34 in Missoula and enjoyed it.

 

Turns out I couldn't take my 34 there. After running the numbers, I realized that if I left as soon as I hit my 34, the BEST I could do was to get to the 90 an hour before the window closed. That's with no stops other than the mandatory 10 that I'd have to take.

Now I'm sitting at the TA in Coburg, OR, waiting on a load. I'm supposed to be picking up my partner in Texas on Thursday. It doesn't look like I'm going to make it.

Well, at least I have free WiFi here...

 

I ended up leaving that way.

 

It ended up being a cluster the other day. Called me in (oh your a flatbed, we aren't ready.) Lost my parking spot, wandered around parking in random locations for 10-15 minutes at a time. For at least an hour and a half. Called to basement to weigh in, drive out other other side, come back around too level two ramp. (Oh your a flatbed "geeze not again.".) They found a parking spot for me on property, called the Toyota rep to figure out what was going on. He told me to drive up front of the convention center, and he got me unloaded with a forklift. Back to the basement to weigh out, and straight up 10th to I95 and the GWB.

Lost my Dallas bound load, went to Indiana, now to Atlanta. (I sense a chassis's load in my future.)

 

Denver, CO, and not much going on.

I delivered a small load of pallets this morning, but my next load is a t-call at the terminal and it isn't there yet.
I'll pick it up in the morning since it won't be here until later this evening.
Then I'll be headed to Phoenix with a Petsmart load.

 

I was lucky enough to be able to deliver that load a bit early. Instead of 0001 tonight it was delivered at 1400 today.
I'm glad that happened. At least I'm not stuck going to the terminal.

No pplan yet, and at the beginning of a holiday weekend.
Anyone know how the bubble map looks for this area?

 

It's looking pretty bleak ... The shippers are treating this as a 4 day weekend. I had a load that was going to run me through the weekend and the shipper pushed it out until Tuesday ...

 

Wilmington, IL. They've been sending me non-stop garbage, mostly under 200 miles with 2+ days to deliver. They finally sent me one with instructions to drop my empty at Amazon for 1 paid mile 25 miles away to which I replied that they could go get wrekt.

 

It's a good thing I got to a Walmart today to get some food. Looks like it will be a slow weekend.

They had sent me a pplan this morning, an Amazon load.
I turned it down because my 14 would have expired during a live delivery at 2230 tonight.
Then I was sent a message that my PTA was before my delivery time and there were no further plans sent.
Well, I changed my PTA when I was told by CSR that I could deliver the load early. I guess they didn't get the memo.

I wasn't too sure about it myself. Petsmart doesn't allow you to arrive more than 15 minutes before the scheduled time, but I had no problem when I got there. I guess they got the memo.

I'm hoping that I am not sent some bogus plan in the meantime that I would have to turn down.
Some layover pay would be nice if I have to wait.