Climate Express

How was the run to Memphis? I wasn't sure if the Beacon did hipper washout but @motocross25 suggested the one I was thinking about anyway. That's actually a really good place to get a truck wash too.

 

Jarred had called me last week concerning my hometime request for a doctor's appt. I ended up rescheduling, but the only reason he called was because Travis was out of work one or two days last week. Had some sort of stomach virus or something. Jarred was nice to me too. He was slick poking fun at Travis having the runs lol.

 

Dang you had a long ### day. You must have went to get that peanut butter in Louisville. I certainly like that load as a short haul. It don't matter which location, AWG always seems to take a minimum 4 hrs lol. They'll honor your hometime request. You just so happened to run through KY this past weekend. They won't hold that against you like other companies try to do.

This weekend was a bit challenging one. It's my 3rd straight week without a 34. I reloaded Coke in Dallas last Friday, blew a drive tire, but I caught it before it shredded to pieces. The truck started driving funny a d I could hear the pieces of the tire coming apart under the truck. Then the tires underneath got loud as hell, I told the wife I'm about to blow a tire lol. Luckily the TA in Mount Vernon, MO was 8 miles up the road. Side note, I went to the brand new one there. That is one of the nicest TAs I've ever been to. The lot is huge, and the shop and the store is huge. I ended up dropping at Craftsmen and picking up Baily's for Houston. Had to take an empty there but it was ½ full of reefer fuel and it was dirty. A little extra work to get that done but made it happen. Though for some reason, I got routed to Houston like I was going to Dallas. I thought at first glance it was an odd routing with a fuel stop in Joplin. I kept wondering why the miles weren't making sense. They're paying me for 789 miles but the route they wanted me to take was 44, 69, 75, 45. That's like 880 or so. I ended up calling an audible on that routing and fuel stop. I went 55, US 67, 30, US. 59 with fuel in Benton, AR. That's usually the routing. I'm unsure why they went with the other way. If I had not looked at that closely, I would've messed my clock up worse than it already is. I got to Baily's in Houston this morning, off loaded and reloaded there with a 3 stop local Houston run. After doing that, I was reminded why I prefer OTR to local driving. I can't imagine driving locally in Houston. That place can test your patience, and it gets confusing with the million and 1 loops and highways. I'm sitting in Orange taking a 10 so I could reload rubber in the am for Mount Vernon, IL

 

Man your truck is gorgeous. So that was a 48000 lb load, does that still keep you under 80k in a hopper, or do you have to carry permits?

Even from Wright City I'd always go through Poplar Bluff. I think having to deal with Houston and Dallas in one run is borderline abuse lol. The combination of Little Rock and Houston is much easier than the aforementioned combination.