CRETE - A Year in Review

I would have told your A/M that she doesn't have the authority to tell you who you can and cannot call...her job has 3 functions...keep you moving as productively as freight allows..deal with issues/questions with loads...get you home as close to the date you request(time off for earned home time/vacation scheduling included here)...other than that...she needs to mind her own *bleeping* business...and if she call's your FM...then corporate gets a call and they both get into hot water.

Your logs are your business...not your A/M or your F/M...it is our duty to call and verify rather than screw up and hurt both the driver's CSA and the company's.

When I had Paul, he knew right off that I had no issues busting his chops...if he gave me a problem..I went over his head right on the q/comm so there was no issues with him thinking I was secretly going behind his back to hamstring him. The same goes for my F/M...she knew early on that I would go way above her boss if necessary...but, I never have needed to...Deland has almost always treated me fair...good or bad.

 

Does anyone know a good Exorcist? I truly believe I am cursed. I was given a load from Palatka to Indianola, MS for ASAP. A good run, timed right. Now the curse. I get to Palatka, and there is a line out the gate 2 to 3 trucks deep sitting on the county road. Then, when I finally get in and get to the trailer clean out and inspection station, all those trucks are waiting. Once I get backed in, get swept out and go to check in with the shipping...their computer goes down. Over an hour waiting for a computer resolution so I could get home. All this happened after I told my sweetie(my wife...of course) that I would be making it home for supper and staying the night since there were very few places I would be able to get to once I got the load picked up. So, I did get out, got home, had a mmmm mmmm good home cooked meatloaf dinner...and I get to sleep in my quiet house, in my a/c'd house...no slamming doors, racing engines, honking horns or beeping from my low battery warning.

 

man o man I never want another Owens Corning load! I itch like crazy after sweeping the trailer...haha

Sent a note to breakdown about the a/c. The front is getting warmer and warmer. I was told Acklie shop only for all a/c work. Luckily I have a load going to Grand Prairie, TX for the 10th. I'm due home time so I just got to make sure the shop doesn't skip me again like the last three times I put my truck in for repairs.
My dad's 73rd birthday is Saturday so looks like I will be there for that. Boy, I'm getting old

 

could be worse. this is Santa Rosa, NM just a few days ago...this is HAIL, not snow.

 

I was 4.2 miles away from my overnight stop (the TA) at exit 277 when everything came to a screeching halt. It ended up taking 4.25 hours to clear the roads and I ended up 2 hours over my 14. At first I thought it was snow, but when I looked down I saw it was marble size hail. I also took a bunch of pictures.

 

I sat at the Pilot in Milford CT over 24 hours waiting to make my scheduled delivery. I put in my empty call and dispatch responds: "are you available now or on break?". I tell them I just started my day and desperately need miles. After 40 minutes they come back with a pplan that picks up 6 hours later! I respond "I am available *now* and don't need a 6 hour break". The standoff begins.

 

I watched a Weather Channel video about that storm. They said it wasn't a slow mover, it just dumped a ton of hail in a short period and moved out, then petered out. That kinda storm is just freaky.

 

Any of you ever del to Valspar in Rochester, PA? Sez it has overnite parking, but looking at it on Google Earth, I'm not so sure. Heading up there tomorrow for del Thursday at 0800.

 

I am soooooo glad I don't have the same A/M as you. I'm afraid that it would result in the same circumstances as when I left Raven...or worse, having to schedule visits in the prison's visiting area so I could see my wife.

 

LOL, the only thing keeping me sane is knowing I'll be out of here in just a few weeks. They kept telling me there was no other freight and that I had to accept that garbage load that only went a couple hundred miles. So I finally accepted the pplan and within 2 minutes, no kidding, I got a message "we have a very important load we need you to take instead". So they forced me to take a load that was already late, to be delivered urgently ASAP .... only 180 miles given to me at 4pm and routing through CT, NY, NJ all the way I-95. Needless to say it burned up a lot of hours inefficiently during rush hour (since I had to use what hours of 14 I had left).