S&S Transport

They skipped the part where throwing the chains is a time consuming pain, but otherwise I concur. It's driving like normal, just a bit slower

 

I delivered in Richmond, VA deadheaded 190 miles, and got loaded Thursday in Havre de Grace, MD. Tight place to turn around and back! It took all of 3 minutes to get loaded and the bills signed. 3 pallets 1440 lbs. 1460 miles later, I made it to Grand Forks, drop and hook to an empty, and met a new female driver. I ve noticed an increase of female drivers lately, they all seem very friendly and chatted with them for a few minutes getting to know them and so forth.

After I chatted, I hooked up to my empty and made it down to Fargo to do a reset since I pick up Monday in West Fargo at 10am, and go back to Freightliner to fix the warranty parts. Then I will I will be on my 2 stop 2,070 mile trip to Pompano Beach, FL for Thursday.

It was pretty treacherous at times with 1440 lbs and 30 mph plus wind gusts in MN and ND, and dead heading back down to Fargo. I thought to myself its almost June, and it was snowing in western ND, and the temperatures were upper 30s and low 40s with wind, hail, and rain

 

Finally got a chance to post. Last week I was non stop literally. My last post I was in West Fargo picking up for Florida. Here s a recap of my runs from last weekend.

Richmond, VA-Havre de Grace, MD- Grand Forks, ND- West Fargo, ND 1730 miles

34 Hr Reset

West Fargo, ND -Anniston, AL- Pompano Beach, FL 2072 miles

Pompano Beach, FL to Anniston, AL 720 miles

Anniston, AL- Gainesville, GA- Anniston, AL 300 miles

Now I m on Anniston, AL - Tanner, AL- East Syracuse, NY 1075 miles. Now I m at the Waterloo, NY Petro doing a reset.

I was hoping to go home after I got back to Anniston from Pompano Beach, but the phone rings." Hey we need you to go to Gainesville and pick up a load." Now keep in mind its a holiday weekend and having to go through Atlanta. As you could imagine, I raised hell about having to do that run, when you have local drivers in Anniston that could ve done that load. I just shook my head and said F it and told them since I couldn t go home, do not call or ask me to do anything else for S&S.

So since I couldn t get through the house for some time off, I became a ######## and put in time off request and for return date, I put until I feel like coming back. I mean being out 2 months BY CHOICE and can t get time off when I asked in advance? I mean I live 18 miles from our biggest customer, its not like its a lot of out of route miles. It may have cost $6 in fuel to let me go home, but no

 

I have seen times in Grand Forks where they get a little butt hurt because a driver wants some time off. When they get burned out, they get time off no problem. I mean I just put 4,513 miles on this check, would ve been 4800 miles total if I delivered the Gainesville load before 5pm cutoff

I ve told them its more than miles and money. I guess they re trying to run me and pay off this new truck real quick

 

Glad she is getting better. If you d9nt mind me asking what happened?

 

I think this is the place my teacher told me bout... do yall deliver to menards and xpo alot?