Conway Truckload Drivers what is your 20?

I haven't had any preplans in a.long time.

 

This home time, I was preplanned with a load. But, usually I have to wait a bit.

Yellow, I also have had to sit a couple of days on delivery so I know what your going through. Luckily, I got a hotel and kicked back. The bad news: even though I started my truck twice a day, my battery was run down when I got back to my truck. I'm thinking my refrigerator was the culprit. Luckily, there was a ts 1 block away that gave me a jump start. Hopefully I don't get back charged for it.

I miss having an APU. The entire time I was at Werner, I had a truck with an APU and an inverter. It was nice to just kick the APU on battery mode, and leave.

I wonder what winter is going to be like running the bunk heater, the inverter, etc. I hope the batteries last out a ten hour break. The other worry I have about winter is these single tires. I spin out in dry parking lots trying to pull out of a parking place, I can't imagine what it would be like with even a little ice. Has anybody had any probs in these areas?

 

With my dorm fridge & a bunk heater, the batteries will last 6 hours before killing power to the bunk heater. With the fridge unplugged, the bunk heater will last 8-9 hours. I just wish the truck would kill power to the inverter when the voltage gets low -- I've had to get a jump twice before I learned to turn off the inverter when parking more than 10 hours w/o idling.

The tag-axle is probably more responsible for spinning than super singles, but with the locker engaged & the tag axle's air bags dumped it does okay. Still not as good as a twin screw, but you can move around in light ice/snow on otherwise smooth pavement.

 

Dani

Carry liquid bleach wood boards and kitty litter

... learned it from Canadians....or should I say Eskimos

Cat litter is almost always an automatic inspection in us customs ;D

No preplans I'm still on paid vacation having interviews @ milk places

.... office is union but the drivers aren't
Surprise surprise lol

Happy august everyone here's to the money making third of the year. May your wallets become giant and your pants sagging.

 

They have something like that along US 83 or US 84 I believe just before Balinger,TX , not as many cars but a few

 

Are FM was going to try and get something set up Sat but I guess he couldn't get anything out of Cheyenne because we got no preplan, hoping for something good to start the week out with tired of crappy weeks

 

Off to Laredo. Only got about 30 miles down the road before I ran out of time. going to head out around 1 am. I'll miss this nice weather though...

 

Took 2 days to get us unload here in Cheyenne so looking at some pretty good detention time, now headed to Ft Collins,CO to the Bud plant and then off to Longview,TX

 

2 days to unload!!!!! Holy crap!!!

 

It'll unfortunately take half as long to load at Bud.
Never been loaded in a timely manner.
For us, we tender loads from broker, we don't have drop trailers, so live load.
Bring a lunch.
Last load I did was 6 hours and 2 docks.
Then had 5 hours to unload in OKC.