FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

They're sure not dependable or are built to last anymore

 

It's not a bad stop. They usually have decent food

 

The food from Valentino’s is good. If you eat at Huddle House don’t trust a fart. Lol

 

Starting to forget my days of the week.
Delivered in Elkhart whichever day last week. From there picked up train parts in Flint Michigan on the day they had the tornado. That load delivered in Red Oak IA.
From there went to Lincoln for a load of fence destined for Oceanside. In Oceanside on Monday they monkeyed around some, took forever and broke a forklift all in one. From there went to Costa Mesa for a load of gearboxes going to San Antonio. Just delivered that a day early.

Tomorrow going to San Saba again for Omaha. Only this time I have to pick up some product from their manufacturing facility as well as the quarry. Hope to get it to nebrasky tomorrow and grab something for the weekend.

 

I just replaced both electric window regulator assemblies on Mrs. Snackbar's '01 Silverado. It took me longer to watch the 'how to' video at YouTube University than it took to replace both.

 

YouTube vids have saved me a bunch of money. Headlight assembly replacement, patching drywall, various household projects. And seeing as we’re closing on a house tomorrow, I’m sure YT will be utilized quite often during my visits home.

 

GMT400/800 are the last great Chevy trucks before everything went to ####

 

Well last week was great, this week has been as absolute cluster#### so far. Picked up a load in Ft. Dodge Friday evening with no appointment time. Got home Saturday evening called dispatch Monday morning to set up an appointment time. Tuesday @2pm was decided. Went out to my truck Monday night and found an appointment time of 10am Monday...for some reason. Night dispatch had no idea why. Called the next morning and a new appointment time of 10am Wednesday was decided. Got there this morning just to find out I could've dropped it at any time...........

Anyways, I wanted to be up in Fremont by Friday to get this #### actuator replaced so my A/C is worth a #### in July and August. They proceeded to give me a load...to Houston...to a grocery DC with horrid reviews because that was supposedly all they had. Long story short, that load winded up not being ready until tomorrow so I pointlessly sat around for like 4 hours. Also we apparently have no empty's in the DFW area...at all. I was told to deadhead to Dallas drop yard to get one. Had a barrel of fun in afternoon rush hour and when I got here...no empty's. If there's no empty's in the morning, I'm saying the hell with it and bobtailing to the next shipper. I'm now on a Duncanville to Shell Rock load which is still not ideal but oh well. At least there's decent miles on it. Guess I'll roll into Fremont on Saturday and pointlessly wait around some more until Monday morning...and then waste Monday away since this actuator is an 8 hour job.

Just for the record, tomorrow's Thursday and since Monday morning I have checks notes 60.5 hours left on my 70. This is why I despise SWR. BS like this happens more often on this fleet then you think. There's a reason why (besides DFW) I never lasted much more than 3 or 4 months on my previous stints. Never really had this issue when I was on Matt's board. He always kept me rolling as best he could. Can't wait to go back on MWR.

 

I'm thinking everything is slow right now.

 

Well I have done a thing. Take ownership next week.