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

Actually, Rick isn't bad either, most of the time you can get a chuckle out of him. And he does know how to load a truck right the 1st time so it's legal on axle weight.

I don't know why Wichita got involved either. I just know Robert came up with a simple, uncomplicated plan for both of us that kept us both moving and would get the other driver home, or at least in the right time zone, and it was over ruled.

Maybe I am just more easily pissed off lately because of cut in my pay. And I am not the only one, I spoke to several drivers while on the Rancho yard that have heard the same story from other drivers...and they haven't even started with the 9900 mile salary driver's pay yet, probably because they don't want mass departures that would leave them with too many empty trucks to fill all at once.

 

Made it to Kingman after loading the other day and at 8 pm the Love's was only half full and never did fill completely up. Managed to make it to Santa Rosa yesterday with 8 min left on my 70. Will make it to my delivery in Park City around an hour before my appointment. I was told by my travel agent I am getting a TMX load to Joisey. Not sure if it's preloaded or if I am gonna have to PC to the #### hole of a truck stop down the road from the shipper. Either way, no wait for a load.

 

Nope. Swapped that for a new step in Rancho. He said we have a bunch of blanket loads to move so he needs every conestoga he can get

 

Load is preloaded and at the yard on an older step. It only has 1 stop, Newark. I've been there several times so, other than being in Jersey, it's a cake run.

 

You drive down past the angled spots (like you're gonna nose in), but go about a block past the spots and the road has a wide spot on the right and you just hang a uey and come back up and back in.

 

There was a 10% chance of rain in Wichita today. On the way in, it rained hard enough to use medium intermittent on the wipers. And it was threatening to rain at the receiver, so I had to back in before untarping. The forklift guy says now, TMX owns 3 of the buildings in that industrial complex north of town. Got empty and headed to the yard...yep, raining and...my load is preloaded and sucured, but not a tarp even close to the load. Thankfully it's OSB crates of stuff so it didn't get the product wet. I had to take some of the straps loose so I could pad some of the load because it is a mixed up bunch of sizes. Then just kinda hung the tarps over the load and put a couple bungies on just to keep the load dry and the tarps on. Then I said to heck with doing anything else. Went to Walmart and got my weekly groceries and got back to the yard. Got a message from our VP yesterday asking to have another conversation about this pay stuff, so I called him. He is still convinced that I will be making better money, but he has cherry picked some of my bigger months to show as an example. I keep telling him that he needs to look at the whole year like I did. But it's the SOSDD, same cheerleading feel good b.s. from a corporate company guy...I told him I will give it a try, but won't get my hopes up. I guess he isn't use to drivers actually putting pen to paper and producing hard data to prove their point.

As far as the new(to us) Wichita terminal, I am less impressed with this one than I was with the last one. And as far as parking spots, it has a few more, but there isn't quite enough room in the middle of the lot to put an additional row of trailers, so there is a lot of wasted space that can't be used. Especially on the one side where there is a whole bunch of steel beams and concrete reinforcement mesh taking up a bunch of spots...looks like it's for a project next door and they are just using our lot to stack it up. I guess the nicest thing I can say about this facility is, they at least gave us a "driver appreciation" plastic #### house so we don't have to crap in a trash bag and leave it to stink in the dumpster.