Indian River

That place in Florida where we load to go to Waco, TX won’t let you in wearing shorts either. I can’t remember the name, but it’s only about 30 minutes from the WH terminal.
Anytime I go to a shipper/receiver that does everything indoors, I always ask if I can unhook and pull outside to idle while they do their thing. A lot of places don’t mind. Probably wouldn’t have worked at Visalia though. I’ve only been there twice I think. Isn’t that the one where you go past all those trailers of lemons and you get loaded while you’re on a set of scales?

 

I hear ya on the days and nights getting flip flopped. I did a Visalia to Bradenton, FL once (drop/hook at that one) and I think the other time it was a Canada load that I ran to Indianapolis and a passport driver repowered me.

 

You live close enough to Auburndale to go home for a night before or after? That’s what I do if I’m close enough. Gotta get it when you have the opportunity. I got my CDL in 2008 and cut my teeth pulling food grade pneumatics. My first company didn’t have a “ride with” training program. They had a “follow him around in your own truck” training program. 10 years later I can still hear the 60+ year old, ex-military voice preaching to me “if you’re ever within 100 miles of your house and you don’t go home you’re a $$$$ fool”. Lol.

 

We left OKC Friday afternoon with her car, my pickup, and my landscape trailer loaded down with all of my equipment and tons of boxes from the house. We got to San Antonio late that night, got a motel, then yesterday morning we put everything into a mini storage. We left SA and drove her car all the way to Clovis, got my other pickup from the IRT yard, then made it back to OKC about 430am.
So I’ve turned about 1,500 miles on my home time. Lol. I’m rolling out soon and dead heading to Mission. At the end of next month we will make 1 final trip to SA and I will either rent a car or fly myself back to OKC to get my semi.