Good Night From II

delivered to LA store which I dislike since its so dang tight, when I got here other vendors were still here since I started the load 6 hours early since it cut early, I got the mt out and took my time and by the time I was hooking back up to the load the vendor left the dock next to the one I put it in so I was happy about that, I like using that other dock to make the tight fit easier on me. Then went and picked up a load at Yussen in Long Beach and now taking a 30, got one more store to deliver to tonight in Bakersfield and then should be home for 2 days if they dont try to get me to work tomorrow which I hope not since tomorrow is my wifes birthday and she would not be too happy with me.

 

I picked up my load in Worland, WY and headed out.
Stopped at the Walmart, stocked up, and continued.
I had asked my DM if I could change my route because it was a bit shorter, and he said yes. But it turned out that my 14 would be up before I could get to any truck stop or rest area.
I went back to the original route, which gave me the option of stopping at the Little America.
Leann loves it, since she got to have a nice hot bath in a real nice bathtub.

I deliver in Ogden, UT in the morning, then pick up a load going to Seattle, WA.

 

Last time I looked at a bubble map for some reason Seattle seems to be pretty hot with loads. Might be that the potential dock strike in LA port is pushing freight to the Seattle port. Hope you get a nice load out of Seattle. My last time getting out of Seattle they sent me to Williston, ND and had to deadhead 400 miles out to get a load.

 

Somewhere north of Mt Vernon, TX. Nice lite load, all of about 7k. Found out today talking to my DM that about 1 month ago they received email that no longer allowed to give the actual windows on a load. So I just said, get ready for a lot of declining on MAC 9 with my windows. Reason was that drivers where getting to many SVC Failures. Waiting until the last minute and then still being late.

 

avondale az at the pilot. p/u the load in buena park and ran thee load straight here(after scaling it in ontario)and about a mile away from final. delivers b4 0545 tomorrow. that'll be the time i plan to get there since i pick another load up there and deliver it to san bernardino ca. appt time is 07/02 0100. thought it said 1000 when i saw it on phone. i just accepted it b4 scaling the load without looking at the dispatch. hopefully i can stay at the final to sleep. get up,go onduty, deliver the load, then go back to sleep. its also a live load and unload, so hopefully this place in tolleson az has an empty. going to take the 3rd to the 6th as hometime. reason i accepted it so fast lol

 

dp, I wish I knew where your delivering I might be able to help, I know Steve loves Quaker, free drinks.

 

Love might not be the term I'd use. Knuckleheads wouldn't let me drop on Sunday saying "it's not on the schedule" only to tell me the same thing this morning. Only took about 20 minutes to fix since I was able to get hold of the CSR and they fixed it. Also took me 20 minutes to check in after I arrived @ 7:30 this morning.

 

Loves in Katy, Tx. Got a load from Houston to Arkansas to finish my week, called the shipper to make sure it would be ready and they didn't even know about it. So now I have to go get it at 0900 instead of the planned midnight pick up.

 

At the Orleans in Las Vegas after delivering to my favorite Costco. When I found out it was gonna be 110 in Vegas I made a reservation before leaving Phoenix.

Live load in the morning headed to Salt Lake. Command came through after my original load from Clearwater Paper in North Las Vegas was rescheduled. Managed to get $115 MORE than the "Swift rate", not bad for only 416 loaded miles.

 

Delivered my load in dublin, tx then got a preplan to head over to arlington, tx to pick up a load that delivered in houston, tx. I've been doing mac 30 but every load has over 150 empty miles. They have sent 3 preplans all over 200 empty miles. I guess ill be sitting here at the flying j in houston til a decent load pops up