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Well, looks like I just gave up my load so still sitting in Houston. Due to the road conditions around here, was not dragging a mt trailer 75 miles. To many road closures and slick bridges. Even though a drop and hook at the customer, they close at 2200 tonight and I was not going to try it. Right now even ramps to 610 are closed, 59 both north and south closed. It is bad.

 

Last summer I had a similar situation getting repositioned from Lathrop to Castaic, then got a dispatch to pick up a load of Budweiser in Van Nuys to run to Laredo, nice long haul. I've made that run twice since then. Whatever you do, make sure you have enough hours once departing Van Nuys to get out of the LA basin. Hopefully you won't be picking up in the afternoon, because getting through rush hour is a nightmare, especially trying to take the 210 through Pasadena. When I did the reposition it left me only 3 hours on an afternoon pickup and I got caught in rush hour, barely made it to Fontana to shut down for a 10.... there's just not many options for parking getting "out of Dodge"...

 

That's why I really don't like get into a "cluster truck", those groups of trucks tail gating each other trying to pass slower trucks. If there is a slower truck ahead of me and a "cluster" coming through that's faster than me I will hang well back behind the slow truck and wait for the cluster to work its way around before attempting to make a pass. It just boggles the mind the way so many truckers get bunched up at speed in poor conditions (let alone good conditions). One truck makes a mistake and it takes out the whole lot of them.

My codriver has a Sirius installed. Initially he put the antenna above the windshield, but got poor reception. He changed to run it along the passenger side along the top edge of the cab and bunk area and reception is excellent.

 

got herre in castaic around 0700 this morning. sat for 15 minutes and got a preplan with 3 p/u'= 1st at carson.2nd in la mirada,3rd in la mirada,and final in n las vages for a 1945 delivery tonite. lets hope i make it. already told them i was going to be late for 1st pickup and they said to just get there as soon and safely as i can. was 30 minutes late. faster than i thought i get here. so hopefully i can do this. not very compfortable with these multiple stops cause it seems they are always late when i get them

 

I was on 94 yesterday, then decided to reroute myself down US 31 to I-80.
Ran into whiteout conditions there as well.
The was a big pile up just past where I stopped for the night - because of the whiteout conditions.

I'm glad I went that way. If I had continued on 94 after it opened I might have been caught in that big wreck.

Anyone know if any Swifties were involved in it?

 

Still here in Baytown. Was sent 5 pplans today, all beer loads going to El Paso, Mac 9 each one with PU at 0800 in morning, all taken off me. Was not moving due to the weather this morning around here. My PTA was 0800 for tomorrow and still getting these to pu today. Finally a pplan at the yard going to Augusta, GA for Monday. The worse part of today, got up this morning with the bunk heater not working. Trying to figure out what was wrong and fired up the truck. Noticed that the fuel gauge was mt. Thought, gauge was busted. then I remembered that the bunk heater needs fuel to run, so looked at the tanks, bone dry. Siphoned last night. The only truck that was next to me that left in the morning, KLLM L/O. He even went as far as cutting the small chain from the fuel tank to the anti-siphon tube. Topped off one tank, and that was $400 that I was not planning on spending this week. Now I am going to have to hope for a nice 1400 mile load out of Augusta that I can drop on Wednesday so that I will get somewhat of a pay check.

 

I would love to catch someone trying to get my fuel. They would have a date when my door jam and door. I would call Kllm and let them know the time and place and about how many gals.. ifta taxes are going to look funny. They will see it. I know it won't help but maybe they will do something

 

That's a great idea.
How many KLLM drivers would be in that truck stop at that time?
And I doubt KLLM would want a thief of a driver working for them.

 

Wolf, I use the magnetic on my truck and it works great. Ran the wire down to the windshield, in the passenger door jam and mounted the magnetic piece on the roof a few inches in from my passenger door. It's always stayed put and I get great reception.

 

Unbelievable. This pi$$es me off just reading it.