Millis OTR journal

Ugh, Conarga Foods in St Elmo, IL. Sure hope I have a drop and hook because I've been sitting in the security line forever and they've only moved one truck in my line since I got here 20 minutes ago.

And looks like they take forever with guys leaving too...guess I'm hitting the first truck stop after I get out of here...probably be getting near 6 by then.

 

Isn't that the same as Pinnacle? Been there once and it was a super easy in and out and was DnH. How did it go for you?

 

Rescued my first Millis driver today. Picked him up at a hotel in La Crosse and dropped him off in Madison. Great guy, a little nerve racking since it’s the first time in 9 months I have had someone sitting in passenger seat. But as bad as it was for me, can just imagine the anxiety me being a rookie caused him.

 

Anybody delivered to The Tile Shop in Naperville, IL? It's in a shopping plaza and looking at Google, I can not see how I can get a truck into this place and back out nor can I see how they're supposed to be able to unload me.

 

Always thought that was a regional load

 

Maybe so but I'm hooked up to it.

 

Right next to Pinnacle. It was just a long wait getting in and out thru the security gate. Plus the spot they gave me to drop the trailer was still occupied by another trailer and driver picking it up, who also needed to do a thirty. He was kind enough to creep out and around the lot but it was stupid that he even had to do that. Plenty of other empty spots but they gave me that one. Just a lot of lost time getting in and out, the dnh was fine.

Then Walmart DC yesterday in Beaver Dam, again a slow process in and out. Plus I'm trying to get home, my 8 hour clock is at about 59 mins when I get out and I want to make Richfield to do my thirty while updating the truck registration. I'm preplanned for my next load, but I get a message just as I'm hitting the road to leave the empty and bobtail. ....yeah, no...I already spent 10-15 minutes hooking up and getting out, I'm not turning around somehow, waiting in line again, and all that. Should have told me earlier. The 8 and 14 clocks are stupid.

 

Yeah those are the clocks I hate too. I can deal with the 11 hour and 70. Those keep companies from running us into the ground. The other ones can go to hell.

 

does anybody know if I can still use the Holy Hill Road exit to get to the Richfield terminal or do I have to use that detour?

 

Detour as of a couple days ago when I was last there