Good Night From II

yep same here, was chatting with a surge driver a few hours ago before heading home and he was talking about how he doesnt understand how drivers can do 600-700 miles a day, I told him I do several 600 mile days most weeks. He asked how and my response "just drive"


on that holiday pay thing I know a message came across for company drivers too, something about driving 4500 miles between the 20th at 2359 to the 3rd or something like that for a $225 bonus and $900 for a team to do 9000. Not sure if I will be included in that but doubt it since im dedicated and all bonus's seem to go out the window.

 

Chillin in London now also. Yes, I will attest to what Broccelli I. He can actually speak English for a EX marine. As far as the incentive pay, nope. Did not receive that one. I was asking this morning if they even know what are schedule will be over the holidays at the DC and no word yet. Already said that give me a pin lock key and I will take a retail load Christmas eve and drop it somewhere and bring back a MT and be ready for Christmas night eve since stores will be open the day after. No reason to go home. Let someone with family have that time.

 

I know our DC shuts down for Christmas, xmas eve just a few loads go out and they are early

 

Taking a break on an old customers side road in Union City GA off I-85.

Got to Fairburn GA around lunch and dropped my load from Detroit. Customer had no mty trailers and I had already accepted another load down to Laredo and didn't feel like waiting on a planners goose chase. I'm on recaps and simply don't have minutes to waste chasing around for a "maybe" trailer. Whipped out my book and sure enough we had a D/H customer 2 miles away. Ran over there, lied my ### off to get through the gate and grabbed one. Got dispatched with it and took off for Union City to pick up my preloaded P&G for Laredo. Now I'm all set to roll after my ten. Planners just don't have the sense of urgency needed to support us in a timely fashion.

Before i I got my Laredo load I had grabbed a local job off mac30 for some spare change..the other 2 offers were to Baltimore...no thanks!! The local gig ended being with the circus moving some lions around but after calling the lead driver I found out the p/u date was wrong and I'd have to wait 36 hours. I had it removed.

 

I'm at the Greer terminal after dropping of the trailer with refused product.
I'm sure glad to be done with that load. It was a real pain.

No pplan yet, and nothing via mac 30.

 

I delivered a load of foam carryout containers to a grocery DC in Edmund OK once, and they refused one case because the shipper crunched a corner of the box. Went through all the motions and Swift asked if I wouldn't mind bringing it to the OKC terminal office. It was out of my way a bit and they said they'd pay me so I said sure. Once again I should've known better.

I get get there and it starts pouring down rain and the place quickly turns into a white mud farm. I can't get anywhere near the front door with a trailer so I end up soaking wet with mud up to my ankles plus had to fill out a boatload of forms. Finish all that and go to leave for the T/A down the road on I-40 and they won't let me leave with my trailer!! I didn't have a ppln yet and mac30 was dry. I went back and forth with them but no dice. I could leave bobtail but no trailer.

I was NONE too happy. Called my DM and asked for a favor..assign me a load directly herself so I could leave and she did. I left with my trailer and a lesson learned.

 

Back in London. On my way up to Detroit this morning decided to stop at my little hole in the wall for some fuel, and why not, $3.01/gal. The big boys in MI were at $3.67 and the big boys here in Ohio were close to $3.50. The FSC is sure going down but the fuel around here sure is not that fast.

 

its crazy for the fuel price differences even with the big boys in certain areas, right now for a big boy Tehachapi in the area is the cheapest at $3.24, on the 5 in Santa Nella they are pricing near $3.80 for both TA and Loves, go south to Lost Hills and they are $3.90 or so, a few more miles down the road another TA at $3.44. Then in Tulare you got Loves on one side of the freeway at $3.80 while on the other side a mom and pop truck stop at $3.25 ish. I am not an O/O but I still catch these price differences in different areas, I think if people kept an eye like this they could be making a lot more money over the year saving over $50 per tank.