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

He’s a good guy, and his dogs pretty chill too.

 

Still looks like I’m going to have trouble loading 48k with full tanks. Considering ditching some rarely used gear And a 25x30 lumber tarp. But I still need to get a set of tire chains, so it will probably be a wash. It’s crazy to think about all the money they spent on new trucks and trailers so they could scale 48k, and we still can’t

 

Does your truck have an apu?

 

Yes. I know that gets us a little bit more in some states, but not all of them unfortunately.

 

I’m only a few hundred less on my dump set up, wasn’t pumped when I got the anthem with the APU because I end up losing money over the course of the year, but like everything else in life it seems, I just got used to it. Your new KW is sharp though so that’s a plus.

 

North Carolina is 38,000 on the drives and tandems… But still 80,000 pounds total… So that could help with the APU per axle weight

 

Well that will beat the piss out of ya all the way to WA. Have you tried to hit the brakes real hard? Might move some weight forward for ya.

Well I’m still trying to decide if I’m taking a ####ing on this deal or not. When I got my last load picking up Thursday delivering Friday in VA I voiced mic concerns about getting stuck down here over the weekend. I was assured there are several of our customers that load on Saturday.

Fast forward to my 8am pinpoint pick up, I get there around 730 and check in with the customer. Super friendly people at a secure facility, offered coffee/snacks/restroom ect. Load is sitting on the dock next to the rigging crews forklift ready to go. 9 am comes and goes, so I go to see what’s up and they tell me the riggers will be here at 1330 to load you. WHAT!?

apparently one piece was not crated due to the wrong crate being sent over the previous day. Between the 5 different companies involved, that info never made it to us. Got loaded and tarped and headed out. Ran like the dickens to make it out to VA before they closed 4 hours early because there’s a tropical storm coming.

Just as I suspected, I’m stuck over the weekend. Heading 500 miles south to get a stretch rgn to load in savanna on Monday. Picking up a legal load heading to northern Massachusetts. Then loading a container after that heading to WA.

Not nearly as busy as I want to be but these containers are my bread and butter and I’m the only one out here right now. Was hoping to pick up a decent load over the weekend and maybe deliver one more before the end of the month on Friday.

As it stand now I’ll have just over 12k miles for the month. Not bad, but under my expectations for staying out the entire month. Maybe I need to reevaluate my expectations.