Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

It's been busy over here. That roller tarp coming off track and the long unload times kinda had a domino effect. It put me 30 minutes short of being able to get back to Spring Hill on Wednesday...as soon as I hit the yard first thing Thursday, they were asking when I could be in Knoxville. They sent me a load that delivered at noon Friday, then take my flatbed to Church Hill and drop it, and pick up another flatbed there (why? I have no clue, I asked that, but my dispatcher said, because they want you to...and it's 175 extra miles...so I didn't argue). Then take that empty to Spring Hill, and pick up a load that delivers in Grenada MS 1st thing Tuesday. In the last 10 days, I will be over 4000 miles, 3 unloads, 2 trailer moves (but no partridge in a pear tree)...but I did have 1 breakdown...

 

Saw the end result of another shoulder parked truck getting rear ended...or at least that is how it appears. I hadn't found any news reports about it, but when you see:





Parked in front of a scene like this (a heavy lift wrecker trying to pick up the trailer's rear end)




And the plastic bumper of a car laying next to the drive tandems...the news generally isn't good. It was on I-24 x-40 exit ramp west of Nashville

 

Same thing happened to a CFI driver many many years ago. A couple girls were coming home from a party, the one driving passed out and hit a parked CFI truck, killing her friend, and admitted to the cops what she did, but her friend's family sued CFI and won a multi-million dollar settlement, all because he was parked on a ramp...