An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Well 2300 miles later and I’m setting down the street from my delivery. Not bad for 12 foot wide over the Christmas holiday in 4 days. Only had one morning run during darkness, and that was to get out of California before the traffic.

Now to the ####ty part. I didn’t think about it on Friday and I didn’t really have a good ETA at that point anyway but I may need an appointment to deliver this load tomorrow. My dispatch says nothing about an appointment, it just has a delivery window on Thursday.

This is a huge parts warehouse for caterpillar that has a lot of van loads and a lot of deck loads. The reviews on Google mention appointment times in several of them. Hopefully the appointments are just for the box jockeys.

The phone number on Google, my paperwork, and my dispatch (three different dumbest btw) are all disconnected. And since today is an observed holiday all of the office staff is off. So no one could help me. So I guess I’ll just show up and act like I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

 

One last load for the year. Unfortunately I’ll be a day short of delivering this year. That would have put me at 14500 miles for the month.

 

Happy New Year!!! I hope your wife is able to get back to normal.

 

Happy new year, hopefully your wife and you have a better 2023.

 

Hang with it. It might not be that bad. The job that is. Hope wife will be ok.

 

Medical expenses are insane in this country. Since I suddenly and unexpectedly lost my medical card due to heart arrhythmia, I've been stuck in a factory job that I despise. Definitely line up something better before jumping ship. Going without insurance can bankrupt you in a few short weeks.

 

SSB,

So sorry to hear about your wife. Many prayers for her to get the medical issue under control. Glad to hear that you and her have made a level headed decision on the job. Sometimes unforeseen situations cause a change in the decisions that we have to make. Keep a clear head and hopefully everything will work out for the better. I'm pulling for you and the Mrs. Happy New Year to you both.

 

We recently switched from peoplenet to orbcomm. Orbcomm messaging is way slower, they cant send you multiple loads at a time and you cant batch delete messages if there is anything in there you want to keep you have to go message by message to delete them

 

SSB,
Happy New Year to you and the rest of the hands on here. Hope the job works out to at least give you the time to research something else with the insurance plan that you need for your wife. Hang in there Boss!