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

This is an interesting load. It's the 1st scissor lift load where I have mostly big lifts. I didn't notice when he put them on that they were a couple inches closer to the passenger side than the driver side. It should have been the other way because these lifts have the counter weight, and all of them have it on the passenger side. I have a 2 or 3 inch lean to the passenger side, which means left hand corners have to be taken slower than normal. Unfortunately, they are too close together to reach the key switch to turn them on and shift them some.

Other than that, I have made it just north of KC by Sunday night, will be around the Manchester TN area Monday night and hopefully bumping off the 3 GA stops on Tuesday, and delivering the FL stop by noon on Weds.

As of Saturday night (the last day of the month), I was around 99,700 miles for the year(on the odometer). Which means I am on pace for around 133k hub miles for the year. If I were a door slammer with lots of drop/hook loads, that wouldn't be that impressive, but since 95%+ of our open deck loads are live load/unload, that aint bad.

 

Just curious, how does taking a lot of earned days off in a single month effect the salary pay?

 

I was gonna say, payroll changes by New Years. When I was messaging back and forth with Travis about my mistaken belief about extra tarp pay for multi-stop loads, he mentioned that they are considering changes to that when they realign our pay with We-lie's. I am guessing that weekly pay periods are included in their revamp since they have mentioned more than once on the video forum. When I was at We-Lie-Moore, we were already on weekly pay, but once we were assimilated, all drivers from both companies were weekly, but all other employees had to switch to bimonthly pay, which meant they had 2 different payroll systems, and when you had a problem, you had to call the right payroll department, which were both in his higbess' Grand Castle in Fargo

 

3 stops in Ga and 575 miles yesterday. Made it to the FL/GA line in St. Marys for the night. Could have made it further, but the middle of the week's hours coming back aren't great. I will deliver in Sanford today, but not sure where I am headed after that, and so far, these deliveries have been quick, but the customers don't have a lot of room to sit and wait on their lots, so once I deliver my final today, it's a toss up which way to head once empty unless Op's waves their magic wand and makes a load appear in FL. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if they say go home and do a 34 on your way to GA to pick up a load.

Sure is hazy down here. According to the news, this is all smoke from Canadian wild fires that is trapped along the coast because of the high pressure over Bermuda...but, having that there is what is keeping the hurricanes out in the Atlantic, so...