Calex Express....My New Home!

I left Lake Park at 7am as they were calling for tornado's in the area.

 

So close yet so far. We'll meet sometime, I'm quite sure. Lunch will be on me! Gotta go deliver, talk soon.

 

Todd, are you headed home? I'll be in the yard in the morning. I'm at the Petro for the night.

 

I emptied out in Spartanburg SC around 10am yesterday and was thoroughly entertained by this women driver for US Express. It took the receiver less time to unload me than it did for her to back into her assigned dock. I guess I should be thankfull I left with my hood attached to my truck.

I dead headed to Cleveland TN for a drop and hook and made it as far as the Petro on 81 at the 29 mm and called it a night. I woke up with 525 miles to go and made it to the consignee at 5pm and dropped my trailer there. On my way up Louie called and said to see him in the morning for my Florida/Thanksgiving load. He sounded a little out of sorts so I told him I'd check with him in the AM. Five minutes after hanging up with him my reload info came over the computer. Load tomorrow in McElhattan PA and deliver on Tuesday at 5am at the same customer I was at this past Monday, then home for the rest of the week. As I was reading my load info Gary called, he was already at the terminal and had gotten his load info, same as me except he delivers Monday instead. Good for him, he has his Mom flying in for the Holiday and is taking his vacation next week. Enjoy pal, you've earned it!

Like I said last year at this time, holidays are a tough time for any dispatcher, especially when you are a small company like Calex and all your drivers that live in Florida are at the wrong end of the freight lane. This is now my second holiday season with Calex and I'll be home for the holidays again. We all are headed home this weekend for Thanksgiving. Thanks Louie!

 

Well I'm home. I got here this evening around 7pm. I deliver Tuesday at 5am in Orlando and will be home for the holiday.

 

This is a very slow week. I'll leave the house around 10pm to head up to Orlando. I'll bump the dock as soon as I get there and be empty and on my way home around 9am tomorrow. I'll be off until Monday then head back out. This honey do list is becoming one big pain in the ***.