Husband starting with Roehl 1/11/10

It has been a while since I have posted. Just to update you all on my husband's journey. He was assigned his own truck the middle of February. He was supposed to be home on Sunday the 21st but that did not happen. So he asked to stay out until that next Friday. Which turned into 3 am Saturday morning under a van load instead of a refer. At least he made it home for the weekend.

He left the 2nd day of March and this trip has had its issues. Some truck, shipper and weekend dispatch issues. He took his van load and headed south. Spent some time in Georgia and Florida and then back to Georgia. Was to pick up a van load and head north. It should have been an easy drop and hook on a Saturday. The load was way to heavy. As you know might know in EVO III you are required to scale everything. Even if he wasn't he would have scaled this load it just seemed heavy. Reported it and was told by weekend dispatch to wait till Monday morning and call dispatch. The comapny was not working that weekend. Called first thing Monday morning and they seemed like they did not know what was going on. The load was due to deliver Monday at 2pm but had not left. Vise switching him to a different load he waited and waited for this load. Finally Tuesday morning he got the load back and when and rescaled it to find out they took maybe 1500 pounds off. However, it was still over by about 1200 pounds. Back it went to the shipper. At 1:45 finally left for delivery point about 50 miles from the house. The kids and I went to see him for dinner the next night after he deliverd.

He picked up the next day in Lexington and headed north. After his delivery he headed for Gary to have the truck worked on. Spent the rest of Friday, all of Saturday and part of Sunday in Gary because the truck would not start. Once they finally replaced the fuel pump and found the ground wire somewhere in the wiring harness he was back in business. Still under a van though was told should be a refer he made a delivery to Richmond about 100 miles from Gary. Asking and wondering when he would be back under a refer. He got his wish. The next load was a refer load from Madison to Indiana somewhere.

He is uspposed to be home this Thursday or Friday and I hope this trip ends soon! So we can but a difficult and frustrating time behind us. We are hopefull the next trip is busy but not this problematic. Unfortunately, sometimes a serious of events totaly unrelated can leave a bad taste and we are just hoping a little time at home will clear that bad taste and start the next trip freash and minty......

 

It has been a while since I have updated you all on my husband driving out in the Roehl world. He is out of EVO III and mainstreamed. He was out for almost 25 days last trip because they were unable to get him to a different home stop because there was no refer freight headed that way. He did not want to come home if we were some where else so he chose to stay out. He went back out a week ago Monday and is due home tomorrow (as a special request). It has been a little crazy at home. Our oldest son broke his ankle in two places and that was hard on him not being able to be here. However, we knew there was nothing he could do it was still difficult. Things are going well. Refer seems to be moving fairly well. He has averaged about 2200 miles a week. Some better than others but that is the average. It is still just an adjustment period. I am just happy he will be home so I can go work the track for the Kentucky Derby and make some extra money.... Be safe and drive smart out there!