Good night from...

Been there done that...you overweight on your steers or drives....you know only 3 states actually want you at 12000 on your steers?...you can be over in most,besides its middle of the night on easter morning...how many scales would be open right?

 

Gross .........

 

Hmmmm...well good luck with that buddy.....hehe...let us know if you make it unscathed

 

Scale was closed ... burned off a 112 gallons, back to couple hundred lbs under gross ...

 

Let's see, coming off hometime of 9 days turned into 10 when the first load out was cancelled. But the freight gods have made up for the slow start, will be kissing close to 3000 miles this week.
Lathrop- Calexico
Yuma- Los Angeles
Los Angeles- Houston
Houston- Little Rock for tomorrow. Will only have 5 to 6 hours left Wednesday (pay period cutoff), so will see if they can sneak me in a little 200 mile run or so.

 

seeeee...and you were asking how you do that...silly...u just did it....hahaha...good week scottied

 

Crawfordsville, IN, enrte to Bellevue, NE

 

Oklahoma ... deliver tomorrow then head to South Texas.

 

Wings/Flying J here in Avoca, IA. MAC 30 is not looking good for getting out of Omaha in the morning.

 

Somewhere small in KS.
I pick up a load in the morning headed for MO, and one from there to PA.

The last load was really fun.
I had a 0800 appt to pick up, but they didn't show up until 0900. They didn't start loading me until almost 0930.
45k+ of bulk potatoes.
I didn't get on the road until after 1100, and had until 1700 to get 430 miles. Wasn't going to happen.
Then the trailer blew an air line, and I was sitting for nearly 6 hours for that to be fixed.
Rescheduled delivery for today at 1300, but when I got there they were not ready for my type of potatoes. So I waited a couple more hours before unloading.
That load was a Mac22 from the start.

And I'm adhering to Swift's new desire for us to log on-duty time 'just the right way', just to see what it does.
So the 1.5 hours waiting to start getting loaded, the loading time, the time waiting for the trailer repair, the time waiting for 'my type of potatoes' and unloading time - all of it is on my 70.

I'm going to burn as much time as I can, and take 34's as often as possible - just to do my own part to show Swift that they don't have enough trucks on the road.
I'll eat the cost, for a time. But I think Swift will eat a lot more if enough of us do it.

The only way to fight fire, is to fight with 'a smarter' fire.
The way I see it... Swift would have to have at least 10-15% more trucks deployed if we all held to these rules. And that would produce a lot more than a 10-15% increase in operating costs.

Now, I've got 42:43 left on my 70, with 5 days until I start rolling hours back in - and the first day was less than 4 hours.
My next 2 loads are 2 live loads and 1 live unload. I'll be out of hours before more roll in, I think.

And I don't think I've taken more than 2 34's in the past 2 years because I plan my time so I don't have to.
But the way Swift (or, well, DOT) wants me to log on-duty hours makes it impossible.