Good Night From II

Quite so.

Now if I could only respond to the detention messages on the Qualcom.
My QC has been acting up again. I seldom have a signal, or even a connection, for more than a few minutes at a time. And many times that is not long enough for it to upload or download messages.

Some days or weeks it is perfect. Others, like today, it is crashing and/or rebooting several times an hour.
The strange thing is, it often clears up for the most part after the sun goes down.

 

My QC was fine all through the night and up until noon when I was leaving Coca Cola.
As soon as I pulled out of the dock it lost the connections and started rebooting over and over.
I got my next load picked up a bit early and came here to the TA in Morris, and still no connections.
Maybe it is all the solar flare activity.

It turns out that Coke did want that load last night. Someone there dropped the ball big time.
As I was waiting in front of the docks for another truck to pull out a lady came to the truck asking when I got there last night and who I spoke with. She was pretty upset when I told her I got there at 2130 and that I was told to wait.
I finally hit the dock at around 0900, and the building suddenly lost power. They could not begin to unload me for another 2.5 hours when the power returned.

 

Your QC is jinxed; spaceweather.com says solar flare activity is subsiding. Actually it sounds like a ground problem with your QC. My company truck QC had the same sort of symptoms way back when and, after replacing the black box three times, one of the OKC techs found a corroded ground, fixed it and I never had any more problems.
Frank

 

Thanks.
That thought had crossed my mind a few days ago and then, I forgot.

Focus! We must maintain focus.

But it's a real pain to lose time in a shop. I'll have to eventually, I know.
For the time being I've been stating my location in the comments. The QC says to go to paper logs, but stating my location with every duty status change seems to be OK. I'll even move to the drive line manually so I can input my location.

 

Midtown Manhattan. Jacob Javits convention center. Note to self show up as early as possible to a convention even if traffic is thick as mollasses. I thought I'd be slick and come in at night. Big mistake. All the normal convention trucks showed up way earlier and took most of the parking all over midtown. That was fun. There are over 400 trucks checked in and waiting for that 0700 unload. And half of us aren't parked legally. They were triple parking on 12th Ave earlier.

On the side of the interesting. I took Broadway down from the GWB. I am not doing this again. Not without an extra zero anyway. But it's off the bucket list. It's one hell of an experience and it's not half over. Im having a feeling that my 4pm pickup in West Chester PA may not happen. I was told I'm supposed to be at the front of the line since I have the big heavy stuff, but with this many trucks, who knows. Me and my compadre with the 2nd half of the load look to be the only two flatbeds here.

 

I've done conventions a few times at Las Vegas ... very well organized, with lots of waiting.

 

Amsterdam from GWB and ride N/S. That's what I used to do when I delivered meat down there curbside.

 

I've only done one convention, and I can't remember where.
I remember it being chaotic though.

I shut down today in Des Moines, IA. A short day because of so much time on this load.

My QC was flawless today. Go figure.

 

Missoula, MT on a 34. Stuck where I don't want to be, 650 miles from where I need to be, 1500 miles from where I want to be.

 

I feel for you Jamie. Montana isn't the best place for a 34.