I hate Peoplenet, where are you parked and recipes thread

Awwwww..... THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!
LOVABLE!!! SWEET!! CUTE!! FUN!!
Those dogs know how to play with each other and have fun, don't they? Are they a couple? Who is the male and the female? I couldn't see...

 

A rather unproductive day. Family Dollar in Odessa was in no hurry to unload me (you'd think for $190 they'd step it up a notch). They would normally deadhead me to El Paso from Odessa but Miss Vicky in dispatch found a Big Spring to Topeka, KS run. 42k of carbon going to Goodyear tires in Topeka. That sets me up to pick up a ProTrans load back home from Kansas City.

As you can see the shipper wasn't in any hurry either, which explains the 3pm delivery appointment tomorrow. Also.works since the ProTrans pickup probably won't be ready until 5.

Scaled out, picked up a cash advance got tolls and filled my drink jug at the Pilot there in Big Spring. After that I booked it, bound and determined to clear the Chickasha toll plaza before my 14 hour clock expired at 1930 hrs my time (cleared it at 1913 hrs!).

Took the Hamlin shortcut between Sweetwater and Wichita Falls (jumping on FM57, and TX92 between TX70 and US277). Had a scare when a big truck almost didn't stop at the FM57/US180 off ramp!

Shut down here at the Chickasha Service area on the H.E.Bailey.

 

Definitely not fun when we spend half of the day sitting at a dock and then have to rush rush... Maybe that will change some day if we are paid by the hr instead of per mile and customers will have to speed up their loading/unloading or pay a price.

 

Still at home with the endless truck repairs of late. Still chasing a mysterious a/c problem in the Freightliner. Started it up randomly over the weekend and it came on and worked every time. Until Tuesday when my son got in it to take it to the yard. Double ewe tee eff. Oh well, it's not like I need to be doing anything else I guess. Top it off, the KW came in with a boiling battery. Those Optima yellow tops that were supposed to last 5 yrs made it 20 months. One shorted and two more showing signs of having been hot. NAPA exchanged all four without any lip about it, so at least there was that bright spot yesterday. Sometime soon I'll need to get them off the garage floor and stuffed back in the box.

It happens fast. Good thing to be a spectator for those and not in it. I think I heard them talking about that one on WSB this morning. I had the good fortune of missing one like that a few years ago on my bike. Merging onto I-85 NB near the airport riding my K1200GT BMW cruise missile disguised as a touring motorcycle. Just as I was merging off the ramp into 2nd gear at about (near the speed limit LOL I wasn't looking) heading to the left, about 2 or 3 cars mixed it up in the fast lanes right next to me. Soon as I caught the tire smoke out of the corner of my eye, I was leaning right and hitting the throttle hard to get away. All I could see in the rear view was a swirling smoky mess and a lot of spare parts scattering on the road. If I had slow poked it up the on ramp I'd have been right in the middle of the debris field. It took a minute for my heart rate to come down LOL.

That's cute. This morning my dog cut a fart then turned and sniffed it real quick. She was too fast to get the camera going though. Maybe I can get her fetching a ball and not bringing it back. She's good at that too.

 

Cute dogs, they get along good.
I see the steam heat radiator makes a good clothes rack...lol

 

Cookeville tonight at the yard.
Was trying to get to the Loves at the 280 on I40 but fell short by 2 minutes so I figured 2 or 12 minutes is still a violation so I ran it to the yard.

 

Does your company allow drivers to use Personal Conveyance just to get to safe parking? That means, stop before the end of your hrs, show a PTI and then change to PC or line 5 or whatever they call it and run to "safe haven"...

 

The Big O...

I start making drops in the AM...

 

Lake Station Indyhoosier.....fer a minute or the nite....tottaly indesisive....on one hand I done did 2days work today...(mostly cuz All our customers in the Badger don't suck)on the other foot I could boogie cross 20 over 2....&out 422 nice n easy and be in the Keystone by daylight....or finally chill fer the 1st time this week.....and ease out in the AM....which of course will cause me to Hate my dumb###.....4 runnin cross there in daytime w/all the mega fleeters what Mommy won't let em run the toll road......ah the heck w/it I'm crankin up Zac Brown&crackin a cold one....not like Brooklyns goin anywhere anyone.......

 

TMI ! Mike !! ..... we really don't need or want to know about your love life, especially in such detail !