CRETE - A Year in Review

Basically yes.

I put in the empty call after sitting in a WalMart DC dock door for 3hrs. That got me the usual "no freight, find a place to park" along with a note to not expect anything to be offered out for the rest of the day. On the way to the truckstop where I expected to spend a substantial amount of time I actually got a load offer.

It was a little 280mi trip that picks up tomorrow morning and delivers by noon in Indiana. I'm assuming I was put on this short run to get me close to something going through Lincoln so that the trainee can get off the truck and into his own.

It's 60 miles later and we are at a Love's down the road in Ohio and he has been playing with his new Co-Pilot Truck route GPS for the last hour. I think he is confused.

So my running total for the week, about 760 miles. That's it since Saturday Noon and I won't pull out of here until Friday morning. Ouch! Bright side, I put in just short of 2900 mi last week before hitting the skids this week.

Time to get my butt back to Phoenix to bump up that monthly mileage.

 

We all give in to temptation eventually. Welcome to our little world.

Are you a Crete driver also?

 

Maybe we should start calling you SuperLongbow, SuperSnacks prodigy.

At least that's good for a 1000+ miles. I suppose you could always turn down the load and wait for something to get you by the house but I have the feeling select destinations out of PA are slim pickins at the moment.

Now for the bad news. I sat for two days when I delivered to New Albany, MS a while back. But then I was glued an annoying Shaffer trailer at the time.

Hang in there. You could have been put on a 280 miler like I was today.

 

mugzy wrote:

I deliver to Ardmore and that general area on a regular basis. As a matter of fact I was just over there last week, right before my miles went into the toilet.

Pine wrote:

It rarely happens. Only a few times in the last couple of years. On one occasion it was done to get me a load home at Christmas and the other times it was to repower a Shaffer load that was sitting in one of our yards with no Shaffer drivers available to deliver it.

I've pulled refers in the past and don't mind it, but getting ride of the trailer once empty can be a real pain in the back side.

 

My week of despair continues. I picked up my 280 mile run this morning after putting in a whopping 75 miles yesterday and had it delivered by noon (leaving me with 205 miles to finish it off today).

I have since been informed that there is no freight left in Indiana for the remainder of the day and load offers for tomorrow are in the works. So here I sit in a McDonald's parking lot with 4 other Crete trucks waiting for something to do.

Friday is now shot and by tomorrow morning I will be sitting with a grand total of 980 miles or so over the last 6 1/2 days.

They say patience is a virtue. This seems like an appropriate time to bit my tongue.