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Hot here in Calgary too. There was a glitch with my money card, evidently running across Saskatchewan and Alberta swiping it to buy things set off a fraud alert and they shut it off on me. Wow what stress I ran out of points to get on the Flying J internet and was worried I would not even have the money to fax the manifest to the broker or pay the $10.75 to re-enter the U.S. lol. I don't have phone service up here so that just made things worse, but I was able to hitch on to the Denny's internet after the manager gave me the passcode and get things straightened out. Took a personal advance as well, got some of that funny money to spend lol.

 

got preplanned from huber ca to grand prairie tx. have to be there 7/05 1030 ct. went and picked up loaded trailer, did all pretrips and moved it to 40' foot spot. moved trailer to gate to check out. now trailer brakes wont release. blocking half the gate now. mechanic been on it for about an hour now

 

problem ended up being dirt in the trailer brake valves. he had to blow out each line to clear it. at the flying j in el paso tx. i-10 ex 37. took all my 14 hour clock to get here. heading to grand prairie tx tomorrow

 

its been hot everywhere, 107 where im at today, visiting with my wifes grandparents near Hanford, CA. My daughter is taking a nap and then will be taking her outside to expose her to her first firework show, hopefully she enjoys it.

Will be getting up pretty early, have to drive back home since I forgot a couple items which is 3 hours and then its another 2.5-3 hours to get to the terminal.

I started realizing some things I forgot in my truck when i turned it in which irritates me and I know I wont see them again, my brand new push broom on the back of the truck, brand new big roll of duck tape and my portable butane stove. I was in such a hurry to get everything out of the truck since it was so hot and my wife and daughter were waiting on me.

 

wolfy...ask ron zimmer if truck is still there. since you put it in the show when you left, they mite not work on it rite away.

 

sitting at the lancaster terminal. have to have load delivered b4 1000 in the morning. drove 615 miles today and 624 yesterday.

 

I will check, I know it went to the cleaning and detail line first so if the cleaning people already got to it...

 

You never know, they might have saved it for you. We have some decent guys in Lancaster that bag up forgotten items and wait for the drivers to ask for them.

 

sitting in lancastee terminal. woke up.this morning with the blower fan not working. since its not tooo hot yet, drove and made my delivery at quaker in grand prairie tx, then drove back to gewt it fixed. only have 3 hrs left for today,but would've been nice to get a load picked up. anyways, doing laundry then take shower.

 

Hilarious. I'm in exactly the same situation. 35 years in Information Technology, just finished school and starting as an OTR driver. In my case, it's my wife that says she's proud of me. I think it's because she never really understood what I did in IT.


Thanks for that!

Tracy