Good Night From II

Got here to York, PA for my preloaded pick up at around 1400. The window was all day from midnight.
Well, they are running a bit behind and my load won't be ready until at least 0200 tomorrow morning.
There were 5-6 Swift drivers pulling in as I was leaving; I wonder if they'll have to wait as well.

Not many places to park around there so I headed for the Walmart, 16 miles away, in Hanover as it was the closest that allowed night parking (according to my GPS, hope it's right).
I figure I'll pick up the load at 0530 or so. It's around 460 miles to the final with a window until midnight, and my next load that gets me into Columbus, OH has similar windows.

 

ellensburg wa at the flying j.left loves after fueling around 1430 to get over to the shipper and the load was all ready to go. so picked it up and decided to run over here to get over the pass since they are still blasting. signs said it would be closed temperary at 2000. will have about 6.5 hrs to drive tomorrow and get up early weds. to finish up. have about 568 miles to go(bozeman mt)

 

idiots, I take my 10 at the store once delivered if im low on time.
We had a new guy recently who thought it would be ok to drive 3 hours past his 14 since he decided for his 30min break it would be better to take a few hours...

 

missoula mt. at a pilot. made it here with 9 minutes left on 70. 372 miles today in about 6.75 hrs. a little snow on top of lookout pass and rain from spokane to here. pretty much nonstop. have about 196 mile to get to final for tomorrows 0900 appt. i'll leave around 0400 just in case of any issues

 

Alvada, OH.
Once I delivered my load and did the e-call I had 20 minutes left on my 70, 6 minutes when I got here to a little truck stop on US 24.

I was supposed to pick up a load, but no more time.
Preloaded, though, so I can get it tomorrow with no problems. 50 miles there and another 50 miles to Columbus for delivery, then it's over to the terminal for a b-service.
Finally. Another 100 miles or so and I would be on maintenance hold.

 

got a preplan that picks up in bozeman mt and tcalls in spokane wa dropyard. its 402 miles loaded. so hope i can get to the dropyard by tomorrow nite so it would be on this paycheck. but when i got back in truck from shower, got a message that pickup was rescheduled for 1300. gonna get thewre as soon as i unload this load and see if i can get it at the original time of 1000 lol

 

Columbus, OH at the terminal.
Well, so to speak.

I put my truck in for a b-service. They told me it would be tomorrow morning before they got to me, so I went to Super-8 for the night.
Just as I got there I got a text that my truck was finished.

How do you do a b-service in under 2 hours, when I was several trucks back in line?
Add to that, my truck also had a recall for the slack adjusters. That is at least another hour or so to fix.

I called my DM. He told me that my truck was out of the shop, but it still needed repairs. That is what it said on the computer.
??? What exactly does THAT mean?
He could not contact the shop for further information - they were not answering the phone.


Meanwhile, I am in a nice room. I'll call before checkout time in the morning to try and find out what the heck is going on.

 

The Columbus terminal has 3 separate shops. One for B services, one for truck repairs, one for trailer repairs. Having the separate shop for B services, they get them done very quickly (I always try to get my B service done in Columbus). But then your truck has to go to the truck shop for mechanical repairs (the slack adjusters).

 

So will they send it over to the other shop for the repairs, or will I have to do it myself?
I spent the money for a motel room so I would not have to idle the truck for the day. If I have to go back just to put the truck in another shop for extra repairs... what a pain in the a%#!

Having multiple shops might be good for some things, but I like a 'one stop shop'.

 

butte mt t the pilot for nite. picked that load up in bozeman and will tcall it today in spokane droyard. then pick up a load there going to longveiw wa. funny..shipper said my appt as for 1400. my preplan said 1000 until they changed it to 1300. got done, another swift driver showed up, and he said he had the 1400 appt.lady said no, yours was 1300.anyways got loaded early and drove here for the nite