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

usually the bossman makes contact with me if he has loads to move and needs me to drop my load at the yard. He usually, as Travis used to say, has his poop in a group (has his #### together).

Enjoy the weather up in the Great White North, Aye. They say there is a series of storms coming thru that is supposed to dump a bunch of the 4-letter white stuff up there.

 

I live in gatorland, aka God's Waiting Room east (Florida, where the old northeast blue hairs come to die after they retire)

 

That's entirely too #### cold for this time of year, that's late January weather.
I'm in El Paso tonight, it's supposed to be in the 30's here tonight... that's too cold being this close to Mexico.

 

I have been given a glimmer of hope for the next load. Got a call from Rancho, picking up in El Monte, CA on Monday going to SC. I will call them once I am loaded to see if they're gonna be in on Friday or Saturday. Once I arrive in SC I will only need to run another 7600 miles to equal the number of miles I ran last year. As far as gross pay, if I cash out my remaining sick time I will be just shy of what I grossed last year. Which means without that sick pay they now pay, I would be around $2500 under what I grossed last year on the old daily rate pay package, even with me staying out 3 months at a time. Would it be considered insubordination if I called our VP and said "remember when I said I wouldn't make as much on the new pay package like you claim, I told you so".

As far as the SC load, by what Rancho was saying about loads, it sounds like I should be very grateful for the load I got. It sounded like getting and keeping loads on the books was a bit of a frustrating challenge. There are times I am glad I only have to deal with 1 frustrating load at a time, I don't think I would do well having to deal with all the frustration that the planners have to deal with on a daily basis, especially in this challenging freight environment we're in right now.

 

Just under 121k(odometer miles)