I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

Has nobody here ever spent several days chugging around on low speed secondary roads in the snow, or is there some new law on the books that requires drivers to spend all their logged driving hours at 65mph? 2400 miles with 5:13 left on your 70 does happen, albeit not very often. I'm sure I'm not the only one. And that wasn't even the gripe.

Anyway I could get a call early morning because of my early PTA but I doubt it since the planners usually get that stuff taken care of before they go home with their banker's hours. I don't mind so much getting woke up to be informed about an odd hours load. My beef with the dispatcher in question was the habit of waking me in the middle of the night to question how I do my job and, this last time, to debate with me whether my 68mph truck can average 68mph over 320 miles (the last 80 miles of which was off Interstate routes with 55mph speed limits).

I don't like to mute my phone at night, although, after last night, I can see the appeal of The Krauts approach.

 

I applaud your patience and restraint in that matter.

And people say Germans have tempers....

 

Can't...sleep...got to...get unconscious....

 

Got a load from Little Rock to Bryson City NC due tomorrow afternoon. It will be early.

Now to get from here to there.

 

I was back there. Now I am here. Soon I will be there. Then soon will be now and now will be then. And there will be here. And here will be back there. Then I will go from then here to then there. Then back there will be here again and there then here will be the back there of the now from then's back there, then.

Everybody got that?

 

Actually wasn't on my mind, but accurate. Good catch.

 

Hanging out at the shipper. Looks like I'm spending the night.

Hum de doooooo....