Indian River

Finally sitting at the customer in Hattiesburg. After a 2 1/2 hr wait at the wash and the line at my pick up location was alittle long, I didn’t make it very far yesterday. Welcome to trucking. Lol. My next preplan. I’m heading to Montezuma, GA for a round trip milk run. Might just stay on it till hometime next week.

 

Not a bad week. I’m doing these short runs to keep me close. I ended up picking up a loaded tank in GA and I’m now delivering it in Nashville. Purity. Only tank here. This is my old stomping grounds. Used to work for an LTL carrier about a mile from this plant.

 

Nice. Definitely need the sun block in that part of the country. I’m stuck on the 3rd shift runs. I do enjoy driving at that time, just can be tough getting any sleep. Didn’t take real long this morning. Dead heading me back to GA to pick up a loaded tank for Blue Bell in Sylacauga, AL for the morning. What a name! Lol

 

Today is one of those days I hate to be a driver. I delivered yesterday and i met a driver in Cottondale, Fl and swapped tanks. Going to Ft. Pierce, FL. Tropicana. Was told they unload till 8pm. Got there at 4:45. They are done for the day. Come back tomorrow around 7am. Usually not a big deal, but I have hometime starting tomorrow. Was told it could be a long wait since they have sent away several trucks today. I have stuff scheduled tomorrow afternoon.

There is nothing like not taking hometime for 2 months and this happens. Not the company’s fault, but it get real frustrating. I was coming back Monday, but now it’s pushed back till Tuesday. Oh yeah, got inspected the first scale I saw this morning. Everything was good except the blue paint that’s on the license plate numbers, two of them were faded and he wrote it up. Just crazy

 

Said boat runs start tomorrow, so there are no local guys, so I’m stuck. Just aggravating. He spent almost an hour looking at my truck and tank and didn’t find anything, so he went with the plate. It’s all about safety though.

 

He said it doesn’t count against me. I just knew how he was taking his time, he’d come up with something. I’m at the Loves just down the road from Tropicana. Several tanks here. I’m going to set my alarm early and try and get in front. If they go by appointments, I’m screwed.