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

One of these things is not like the other. Not my loads but two 18’ wide dump beds.

 

I was running US-56 in OK one day when a trooper stopped me and basically made me pull into some field to get out of the way of one of those

 

Channeling my inner @supersnackbar.
Called the shipper to confirm loading time of 0700. “Oh yeah we start at 0600 just come in and flag down a forklift and we will get you loaded. Should be a quick chain and go load.” I arrived at 0700 to a non English speaker blocking the gate, sound asleep. Another one pulled in behind me. We all get staged at 7:15 and they come and tell us “everyone is in a meeting until 8:30. They can’t load us until they get paperwork from the office people.”

cool! Awesome! It’s not like I have to be 300 miles away with a pilot car by 3pm or anything.

 

^That guy needs to take a Midol or something. I was loaded by 10 and made it through Denver just fine. Us 285 is a ######## route at 106’ long.

 

I honestly don't miss that kind of stuff one bit(or at least the smaller OD stuff I used to haul). So glad I waved bye-bye.

 

I’m just here for the money, the glory, and the fun. Mostly for the money. That load pays $1.02 per mile.