Millis OTR journal

I'll be able to tell you more in the morning. But use the address on QC not on the bills Also there are driver directions that look really easy to get to the place. In guessing its a new place and Google hasn't updated

 

I got 3315 miles last week. Best work so far . So it was a good week for me. Nit such a good week for the safety department .

 

I can confirm there is a building not just an empty field lol. Follow driver directions and they will take you right there. Its a brand new building. Real quick in and out. Guard signs bills, go drop, grab empty and on your way.

Oh when you cross the tracks you will see " road closed" signs and a "scyene rd detour" sign. Ignore them the road isnt closed until just past the entrance to the guard shack. 1 of the graviest loads ive ever had lol

 

Gotta do laundry. Don’t want to be sociable.

 

#### cell phones. My wife gets angry at me because I always miss her phone calls when I driving to pick her up. I CAN'T ANSWER THE PHONE WHEN DRIVING unless it pipes through the bluetooth. Can't believe guys mess with their phones while driving semis...or any vehicle for that matter.

 

Where are you? I'm camping in Trenton tonight waiting to see if they have anything else for me to do before I go home. Pat is off today and they have a trainee dispatching me. Fortunately he's under Opie's guidance so hopefully he doesn't do too bad.

 

This reminds me of going to the Budweiser DC in Colonial Heights yesterday. The sign as you start down Ruffin Mill that says "Truckers your GPS is incorrect!"

Man I made a bit of a booboo yesterday that turned out to be inconsequential, but could've put me over my hours (again... Diana wasn't very happy with me going 3 hours over a couple of weeks ago to get home). They took their sweet time unloading me at Budweiser and I was banging on my 14 by the time I got out of there. My reload was out of James River/XPO Logistics which was about 10 miles or so up the road. Well I had to fuel at Colonial Heights but I stupidly assumed that the reload was going to be a drop and hook and that I could get out of there and get down the road to a rest area before my 14 expired. I had 2 hours, 8 minutes when I left Budweiser.

So I fuel and head to James River. As I pull in, I notice a little stub road with a truck parked in it and and I think "Well if worse comes to worst I can park there and hope nobody runs me off." I go to the guard shack and give my information to one of the nicest security guards I've dealt with so far. I wouldn't mind going back there just to see her again. She gives me a door and directions to it and what to do after I get in it. At this point I'm still feeling hopeful that I'm just dropping in a door and picking up a loaded. as I'm driving around I'm looking for another Millis trailer and my hopes start sinking. I back into the door, go inside, and it's confirmed that not only is it a live load but it may take "a little longer" because it's medical grade.

By the time they got me loaded and checked out, I was 22 minutes over. So I parked and hoped for the best. Dreamed that somebody came and knocked on my door, which was pretty funny, but when I got up I'd been joined 2 more trucks so I guess it's a popular place to park and sleep.

This was stupid because a) load info had an appointment time instead of a window and b) I'd never been to one this place before so ai should've obeyed my gut instinct and parked at the Pilot after fueling and told dispatch that pickup would have to wait until morning.

Oh well. No harm, no foul, right?

 

I’m in Richfield taking a couple days off. Gotta full eye exam tomorrow morning. Man I hate for my eyes to be dilated. Gotta gitter done though.

 

Ugh I'm starting to hate that terminal.

 

I reckon it’s my favorite, well, except for trying to drop a trailer here. That’s a pita.