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

I've had a horrible September
And October is going to suck too
Pretty mad with the miles lately
In denver, CO heading to Ottawa, KS

 

Just saw the Commercial channel(they call it the Weather Channel, but there is more commercials than weather)...they're showing up to 18" of snow possible in the mountains west of Denver over the next couple days. They're calling it a Powder Alert. Hope you have your chains at the ready.

 

I am sitting in Reno wondering if I am headed East to Denver or not..... I knew I should have bought my dispatcher flowers for her birthday....

 

I don't mind California or Oregon, but this 60 mph speed limit in Washington is annoying. I'm running 56 or 57 up here to keep from getting passed and brake checked

 

There is always a jackwagon out on the road....I creep by to pass a Prime trk (thinking they are ALL governed at 60) get a cab length ahead and the idiot steps on it, come to find out the student driving the trainers trk was a lease fleece operator so he was set at 65mph. None the less I call BS as far as driver courtesy go's.

 

I lost my preplan, this consignee held me hostage today, 5 and a half hours after my appt time they got done.
I should have took the women in the office a dog or some cats, maybe I could have got a foot massage while I waited.
Then the 3 people in the guard shack thought they would make me wait more,I went back to my truck and started writing down my load info, the poor guard had to wait back there til I got my paperwork done.

 

I'm gonna win the worst October award, so you guys can quit trying. Started it off with 2 weeks at home. Planned on 4, found out some A Hole hit my mirror while I was home parked in the truck stop. Happened on Saturday, International dealership that I had to go to (only across the street) was closed weekends. Take it in Monday, gonna be waiting on parts. Not fixed til Friday. I decide to be a little lazy and ask for a saturday load (this next part is all my fault..) Get a saturday load with an open PU window, 1200 miles, monday delivery. I knew I could leave Saturday morning and pick my truck up then, they were open til 230PM. Then I got lazy and figured that since I had an open window on the load, I'd stay up all night and leave saturday afternoon. I went to the dealer at 4pm and realized I am an idiot because I did not even think after a certain point friday about the fact that I'd need to pick my truck up while the dealer was open and that they locked their trucks up while closed. 13 full days at home, lol...

Icing on the cake, stopped into Lincoln real quick yesterday to pick up a few things (lost my trailer lock a lil while ago), got flagged on the computer for needing a Qualcomm update and they wouldn't let me go. On the bright side, got my cabinet fixed. It "mysteriously" broke and stopped latching after my Auto Start feature kept beeping instead of actually working. Repeatedly. Strangest thing...

 

Well, truck number 5 is heading into the shop tomorrow..multiple bogies honking/waving at me..yes I know truck is fumigating miles of freeway, fuel mileage is in the toilet and almost 2 gallons of oil in just under 2400 miles. Truck has a funk smell in the front area and every night after my shift I feel like slime is all over my skin and have a sore throat till the morning. 1st Maxcrapper had a wicked exhaust leak that would fill the passenger compartment with smoke on regening down the road or after a stop and parked.

It's a strange smell..natures miracle,windex,the cinnamon spray deodorant the shop has as well as lysol will not get rid of the smell, I've had the windows down almost everyday while driving and it actually smells worse with them down. Will see what New Kingston can come up with on the smoking/ using oil / poor mileage issue as well as an oil leak (trucks engine was just steamcleaned during hometime as well as it had a major oil blowout before I recovered it) Wife commented on the truck when she followed me to lenoir city to drop the truck for service during hometime that it had a weird smell driving behind me, something she couldn't tell what it smelled like,all I know is something is Fubar .Truck #6 may be on the horizon.

It's not heater core or a dead animal it could be a small exhaust leak making its way through the vents inside but I know that smell and it doesn't have that scent..it is quite perplexing

I'll be glad when 2015 gets here, 2014 hasn't been nice to me

 

After one of our fellow Creten's almost died twice from CO poisioning(once before an exhaust/turbo leak repair and once after the repair)...I bought a CO detector...it's like my American Express...I don't leave home without it...even over here at Poly...it stays in what ever truck my butt warms the seat in.

 

Stop driving that truck, lol.