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

Looks like the cab of his truck is a hardhat safety zone.

 

Well, another load, yet another surprise. Turns out the tractor I was picking up in Broken Bow, OK needed ramps to load. Thankfully the guys there have friendly neighbors right down the street that have a flatbed company with an old dock in the back of their property. And when I say the back of their property, I mean behind all their decked flatbeds and near their junk wrecked trucks.















And I am not picking up a skid steer in Wichita, I am picking up a scissor lift, and Scott said No Bueno to us loading our own (skid steers). And, things have changed. I had my trip to Arlington all planned and now they have added a stop. I was gonna pick up in Wichita tomorrow morning, deliver in Casper on Monday, then deliver in Arlington Tuesday afternoon. They waited until 16:45 to add a stop in St.Joseph, MO that doesn't load until Monday morning, but they want the equipment from Wichita in Casper Monday(715 miles from St.Joe). Then they want the stuff I pick up in St. Joe in Monroe, WA Tuesday (1100 miles). No friggin way, José. I will however get a 34 in between Wichita and St. Joseph... Planners here must be scrambling for anything they can get. This is the most LTL of a load I have had here...the St. Joseph pu says small boxes, need small tarp, might fit in the cab...but says 12,000 lbs... Not my cab, I barely have room for the 3 amigos belongings (the 3 amigos are me, myself and I)

 

The St. Joe pickup is Perka Building Frames...the way the updated load info reads, it almost sounds like hardware instead of the actual frames themselves.

 

I just looked the delivery address up... it's a house in a small residential area




Who are we now, JB Hunt, final mile or UPS? I didn't think the Yellow/Roadway closure would generate any freight for us...who knew?

 

Oh, and it got down right toasty in OK today







That squiggly line before the 109° temp is the heat index or the 'feels like' temp.

 

Got loaded this morning. After rereading my load info, I determined that I was picking up more than just small boxes that needed tarped or could fit in my cab. It gave a freight size that required 22' of deck space. I ended picking up trusses, roof supports, steel roof and support beams for a structure along with those boxes...it was only the boxes that needed protection from the elements. The boxes ended up all fitting in the cab of the tractor I am delivering last.

And what a difference a couple days (and 800 miles west) make. In OK, it didn't get out of the 80's at night....here at the TA east of Cheyenne, it is in the low 50's... didn't even have to start the APU except to cook dinner last night. Which is good, the other night in St. Joe, before going to bed, it popped the main 20a fuse inside the case for some reason and I had no power out of the generator side of the unit.