BD69: The Owner Operator Chronicles

QuickBooks for the business. Pen, paper and a calculator to figure it out on the road.

 

I suppose my initial reaction to this post could best be described as gobsmacked, it was quite sobering. But after just a short time I realized that you just put something forward that all O/O's should have in place. Something like having a plan in place to handle a load I may be under is not even a consideration that had occurred to me. Of course you would think of it, you seem to think of it all and I'm lucky to know you.

 

Home. It was a rough day getting here though. Woke up at 0200 to get may day going. Walked around the truck doing my pretrip and everything was ok. Went in to get coffee and when I came back out my reefer unit was spewing fault codes all over the place...not good when you're hauling a load of medical supplies that can't get above the set point. Fortunately, at this point anyway, it was 30 degrees and temp was a non issue. So I jumped in and headed out. About Wytheville VA my old friend, snow made an appearance and it dumped snow from there until about halfway down Fancy Gap, where it all turned to rain. From that point on it was fairly uneventful until after my unload at which point the wind started blowing. Hard. Real hard. Think Wyoming on a bad day and that's what I'm talking about. Stopped to fuel up in Mebane and gave strong consideration to parking it for the day, but I had to get the reefer in the shop, so I passed by my house and went on to Charlotte where I had to leave the trailer. Doesn't look like they're going to get to it until Tuesday, which sucks sweaty donkey balls since I was planning to bug out at 0 dark 30. Well, like I said, I'm home and getting a little break.

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Funny how hard home is to adjust to when you've been away for a few months. I was plain tired last night and turned in earl planning to sleep until noon. Woke up at 0500 in a bit of a panic...my body was telling me I should have been driving for two or three hours and no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't go back to sleep.

Got my taxes done and got a little work done on the truck before all motivation left me and I called it a day. Went and had a big steak with my Dad and now I'm just setting in a recliner relaxing. Hope y'all had a great day.

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