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

I was mistaken when I said the other driver CALLED Rancho...he messaged Rancho, but the driver never mentioned that the loaders paperwork was stamped with "Doesn't need tarped". Rancho called me after I had a bit of a temper tantrum and told my dispatcher that I wasn't killing myself this load, and it will have to be rescheduled, and I didn't care if it was sometime next week when it delivered. We discussed what was going on, and he said I was removed from the conestoga because the stated weight for the load I was picking up wouldn't have been able to scale out on a conestoga, ..but the actual load I picked up was much lighter, but you don't find that out until you're loaded. He also said that if we had paperwork with that on there then we could have gotten out of there without tarping, but the other driver never mentioned it was on the paperwork.

That plant was one of the quickest loads I have ever loaded. My appointment was for 0:800, I was called in the gate about 7:30, got my load sheet and headed to the staging area to wait for my loader. He started loading about 7:50, at 8:15 I was on the outbound scale.

 

This is what I woke up to this morning.

There was this much room beside me



And this professional seat warmer decided to park like this across my nose. If I drove straight out of my spot, I would hit him in the passenger door. (He must be one of their flatbed drivers because he can't even back up a bobtail)





Tri-State...he is the kind of driver that would jack-knife a bobtail

 

I decided to take the scenic route for most of this trip and avoid the worst of the LA and Sacramento traffic. I went up US 395 out of Hesperia to US 6 to US 95 and will take US 95 all the way to Ontario OR. My entire trip, including the 9 miles from the yard to the shipper will be about 15 miles shorter than what the loaded miles pay, plus I didn't have to cuss out a multitude of LA morons who think they're qualifying for a NASCAR race. Plus, avoiding all the traffic is saving me a bunch of travel time. I originally thought (during my hissy fit yesterday) that I was gonna never make it to my delivery on Friday. Going this way, I will make it only a few hours past the appointment (why they set a pin point appointment for shingles is a mystery). I managed to make it all the way to Hawthorne, NV last night and will be in Pendleton OR tonight.