Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

Looks like some kind of hippy freak fest I tell ya. Too bad I don't have the time to stop...haha The troopa's do seem to have a handle on things though. The people exiting were all on the shoulder. They had certain exits closed and the through traffic was to use the left lane. I started seeing the roadside signs all the way back in Nashville. I have a really slow day tomorrow with not much time on the ol' 70 so I will slow roll it. 'Cept up Monteagle that is! I have a really light 8K pound load...haha. I may not even downshift

 

Well I removed the four screws and there the panel was. However, I didn’t see anything regarding trailer lights. Then finally the repair guy showed up and I showed the panel to him and he didn’t see anything either.

Then I searched google for an online owner’s manual and found one that I downloaded. In the manual we found two more fuse boxes, one near the batteries for the major engine components and one on the driver’s side firewall for the trailer lights, which is the one we needed, and since everything is labeled it was quite easy to find the fuse we needed to check and ended up changing, then wah la I was back in business.

Hence, I went to Dollar General down the road to deliver my load, and they told me I had to come back after 17:00 to see if I could reschedule the unloading. I went back to the Loves and sent a message to my AM. Well, because Dollar General couldn’t give us a time certain, they let me take it to the terminal in Indianapolis where I t-called the load.

Next, I got a Rock Tenn load to Kimberly Clark in Owensboro, KY to be delivered tonight for a whopping 212 miles. I declined it because I didn’t have the hours to get it delivered tonight. So they told me just to pick it up and deliver it whenever.

However, when I got to Rock Tenn at a little before 17:00, they were already closed even though it said on the load assignment that I had till 18:00 to get the load picked up. Not only that, but the gate was locked as well and so I didn’t have any place to turn around. Hence, I ended up having to back up onto a busy street, but managed to do it without disrupting traffic. So here I sit at the Pilot in Indianapolis for the night.

Today has been a totally wasted day, and judging from the crap load I currently have, tomorrow won’t be much better.

 

I forgot about the panel on the firewall....duh.....that should have come to my mind right away, because I just replaced a turn signal module a few weeks ago.

I guess I really AM on vacation.....

 

This was posted in another thread...looks like the profit sharing will take a bit of a hit.....

 

Finally got a decent run 950 mile run from oklahoma
Too minnosota will be taking a reset after this 3400
Miles this week

 

It's almost 1100 and I'm still in the dock at my 0900 appt One of those days I guess

 

By who? Cryptic post is cryptic.

 

Crete dispatch wanted me to run too montana from minnosota
Lol I ran 3400 miles no 70 left time to sleep and wait for
My 70

 

Montana is West. I would have tried to get them to reschedule the delivery appt to accommodate a reset under the load.

 

Picked up my load at Rock Tenn in the morning. It was a live load, and delivered it in Owensboro, KY around 13:00. When I was being loaded in the morning, they sent me a nice 800 plus mile pplan from Owensboro, KY to Pittston, PA, which is a run I made several times before. However, later on when I was sitting in line at Kimberly-Clark in Owensboro, KY waiting to get weighed in, they cancelled that pplan and sent me another one instead picking up in Paducah, KY and going to Kimberly Clark in Ogden, UT that is 1500 plus miles for a Monday delivery, and that is also a run I did before. So I’m headed to Utah instead of Pennsylvania. Oh yeah, they are also going to pay me $100 layover for sending me to Rock Tenn yesterday after they had already closed. So today I’m a happy camper.