Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

Just pulled into the Pilot in Kanapolis, NC and lucked out with a sweet parking spot...
1st delivery tomorrow morning at 10:30, 2nd at 1430 in Graham
Then the wifey is gonna ride with me to Dunn for my last drop on Wednesday morning. Then back to Greensboro to drop the trailer and home for a few days...

 

Seattle wasn't to to bad, went from Puyallup,WA south of Seattle to Everett,WA. North of Seattle with 3 deliveries in between and a pick up. Made it back to the TA were it all started at 02:30 this morning. Back at it tomorrow heading to Chicago area for Friday delivery. Washington DC in my book still has the worst grid lock hands down. Atlanta is a close 2nd

 

Lol in Jessup MD now, always like to go through DC late at night...although I did have a load that took me through the area one afternoon and it was definitely something to forget.

 

1030 delivery University Park, IL
1500 pickup Des Plains, IL
0000 delivery Eagan, MN

What are the odds I-294 (Chicago) will be smooth rolling between University Park and Des Plains? My limited hours at the moment are depending on no traffic to make this next load work. Maybe someone has a better way to get there? It's only 50 miles, but I always hear bad things about Chicago traffic.

 

Your delivery time means there is no set appointment so you may want to check with dispatch. I just made the delivery, can you shut down at the Pilot or TA just down the road? If you have to start your clock then it's not likely to work out.

Check Google and don't head out for MN until traffic clears, you can also deliver and then run over to your pickup and go into sleeper berth and run after your 8...one thought.

 

Ah! I'll have to call Joey tomorrow morning and ask about that delivery time. I tried calling him a couple hours ago, but I must have missed him today. Thanks!

Edit: I have 4 hours to drive to get to University Park. I'm leaving tonight at 11pm and hoping to get into the Pilot tonight around 3am.

 

Yea... Just a point Winny made...
If your delivery says '00:00' call dispatch. Usually means the time wasn't set yet when you got the load offer. If you have a Midnight delivery it should say '00:01'

Got a little detention at the first stop. First day of recaps so short hrs. Definitely not gonna try and make Dunn with rush hour in Raleigh in between...
So Haw River J with a super early departure time!! Rather go through Raleigh at 430 or 500 am instead of 5 pm....
The wife isn't gonna ride tomorrow... We are gonna use that day off for her on Monday and hit the beach this weekend!

 

You and the beach, enjoy bud!

 

Raleigh was a mad house last night 540 was closed in 2 places going west due to wrecks 1 spot going east. I got a good tour of Raleigh trying to wiggle my way around that in town.

 

Sitting in Atlanta at a Peelot.
Mcclanes in Forrest Park kept me from 1230am to 6am this morning. Parked, slept til 3, took a shower and now binge-watching Game of Thrones Season 6 til bedtime, which is soon. Have a 7am pickup 20 miles away at GSF in Conyers, then off to Wisconsin. Jeremy hooked me up with a layover day.

I HATE these ###### switched schedules. I've only been awake for 6 hours and it's bedtime in another hour or so, in which I'll get little sleep, because I've only been AWAKE 6 hours. Then I have a solid 12-14-hour day ahead of me.

It's been like this the last few weeks and it's kicking my butt. Happy to work the long hours, just let me SLEEP when I'm TIRED. Normally I'd stay up, go to the shipper, pickup, park the truck an hour up the road and sleep for 5 hours and drive a full day.

Stupid hours of service, however, and a 10am dropoff time make that a non-starter. I'm going to have to drive a hard day tomorrow as it is, just to make the 865 miles in 27 hours (TYVM 10-hour required breaks and 1/2s).

So the upshot is that I'll deliver Thursday short on sleep, pickup probably in Appleton, deliver later that day to CR and wind up with a 34 so I can take a hotshot load to WA for hometime.

Meanwhile, if FMSCA would just let me sleep when I'm TIRED without arbitrary rules, I could get plenty of sleep, be safe on the road and STILL deliver on-time.

But thanks to the arbitrary rules, I'll be a wreck by tomorrow night with very poor sleep tonight, even though I'm technically OK by the HOS rules.

I can live with 11 hours driving. I can live with 14-hour maximum days. It's the stupid mandatory 10-hour break that is killing me. Because it's forcing me into a schedule that is inherently and obviously not going to have me at my best.

The feds obviously don't actually know anything about the business, nor care about ACTUAL safety. Because it's their RULES which produce unsafe situations.