Conway Truckload Drivers what is your 20?

Michaels in Falls Church, VA (DC suburb). I sent in a freeform saying I didn't thing we ought to be going there, but I know I'm not the first (at least two drivers added notes to the stop location information -- one mentioning blowing tires in that Z-curve with the 10" high sharp curb). It is obviously possible, but its probably not sound managerial practice to rely on perfection from your employees...

It is actually in Heber, CA. I-8 to CA111 south. Turn left in 3 miles to E Heber rd (will be a stop light with protected left turn lane). It'll be just shy of a block on the right (just before & across the street from the AM/PM Arco). It is a multi-company drop yard so you may not see con-way trailers from the street. When outbound...there is a cat scale at a small mom/pop truck stop about 1/2 mile north of I8 on CA111. They have showers and laundry, but it isn't the cleanest place...


The qualcomm Navigo will take you right there if you use the dispatch feature. As long as you use Heber, CA any truck gps should be fine. But that same address in Calexico is in a residential area...


Avoid the temptation to shave miles by cutting between I10 & I8 on CA-78. 78 is legal for STAA trucks except for a ~3 mile section by Ripley and CHP loves to give out tickets for exceeding the 65' length limit there. (CHP has a large regional office in nearby Blythe and, being in the middle of nowhere, it is staffed primarily with no-seniority rookies fresh from the Academy who are bored and looking to write tickets)

 

Use AZ-85 for the cut between 10 and 8. Also have a dust mask when are you there.

 

Relay driver finally arrives. It is dusk so I can see the ABS light from a block away... "Has that been on the whole time?" I ask. "Yeah its one of those trailers..." Sensors are all plugged in, no obvious breaks in wiring -- definitely a problem above my paygrade...

16:55 on a Friday, sitting at 1200 miles for the week, & about to lose a 1200 mile run to Laredo -- thanks #######...

 

i was all over Vaughn / Toronto yesterday , prob would of gotten a calixoco load but I'm highlighted for home (FL) 2 pick ups / 2 drops in Chillicothe OH , going to pick up in Lancaster OH to GA got Monday AM ... Decent week , next will stick ### though

might go on the board Thursday PM so I can go get a few meal lol

 

At Pietro in Muncie Indiana I think . Making rib eye steak and sale mash potatoes mmmmmm I am hungry be safe evryone next stop Joplin heading to otey mesa

 

FMCSA trivia of the day (discovered while researching the legality -or lack thereof- of driving with ABS light on)... Did you know the trailer ABS light must be labeled "ABS" (or have "ABS" painted on the trailer within 6" of the light)?


Sad, but true... 49 cfr 271.121 S5.2.3.3

 

Phoenix and I need a row boat.

 

Should pass you going the other way around roswell, if your going down that way.
Keep a eye on the weather, Amarillo and west suppose to get a taste of winter this weekend.
Winter warnings out across I 40 from Sayre across to Flagstaff, and down hwy 70 to Las Cruces through Sunday.

 

If flagstaff gets bad or predicted bad will cut threw Santa Rosa but thanks for heads up

 

Anyone know what time inspection bay goes home