Millis OTR journal

I suppose. The place in Kenosha wasn't too hard to get to, though the GPS wanted to act like most of the roads don't exist.

And those Best Buy directions for Pensacola were useless. I'm in front of the mall...what's the best way in? haha.

I'm not having too many troubles with not Opie dispatch. Besides having to sit for an hour on Monday morning waiting to be dispatch through Atlanta during rush hour to Cartersville to pick up and go to Kenosha, the runs have been good. That Kenosha run to start the week was almost 900 miles. Delivered it early on Tuesday and then got sent home for my hometime I wanted for Thursday and Friday. Come back out yesterday morning at 6, get a load out of Appleton to Dallas. 1200 miles. Two loads for the week with three and a half days off and still get over 2000 and the bonus. I thought the week would be completely shot. Let's see what I can get going home Thursday night or Friday morning.

 

Hope I don't get that Dallas load again. That place was a pain docking. Now stuck sitting #17 on the Texas list as well.

 

Sitting here in Burleson, looked thru the loads sitting here...one going to Albany. Sure hope someone else is getting dispatched on that before me and is actually here and going to drag it away because seriously...I'm sitting right here, nice 700 mile load just sitting here and supposedly no freight.

 

But you dont know when that Albany load is supposed to be delivered....and just cuz you're there doesnt really mean anything. If #17 on the list 16 other guys have hit ready before you and could be on their way to Burleson to grab it. And could be someones hometime load. Lots of variables to take into account other than "I'm here, there's a load here, but supposedly no freight"....

 

And if you are going home Thursday night or Friday with the way freight is in Albany he may not be sure he can get you back home from there by then....

 

Dang, I only got up at 4:15 and saw a load sent to me about an hour after I went to sleep. Fort Worth Miller to Trenton Miller. But now getting started so late, so I get hooked to it, scale. 36500 on the drives with tandems all the way up. So now another hour lost to reworking. Ill still make Trenton Wednesday but I might have to run later today past my parking comfort zone. Hopefully I don't sit around a whole day waiting for something out of Trenton.

Funny about that Albany load, I looked and the trailer for it wasn't even in the yard.

Still kicking myself I didn't go to bed earlier and get up at midnight to see if something came through. I hate racing the parking clock.

 

Really biting me in the ###. Get reworked, now stuck at the gate because the load is still stuck at the dock in the computer system and they can't exit me. So now backing everyone else up too. Glad I'm not thinking about my 70 this week...just parking.

 

Where did they rework you? I had a terrible day last year because of an improperly loaded Miller load. I had to go to a third party to get it fixed and by the time they were done, the load was late and I was out of hours so I ended up dropping it in Burleson.

 

Came back out Monday, spend the night in Ridgeway, VA. Unloaded Tuesday morning then got a reload of glass from Lexington going to Albany. Any of you guys ever dropped glass in there and been told to drop it in "40 lot?" Holy crap that drop spot is a #####. The drop spot is marked in green, and just to be clear, there's a concrete wall marked in red. As you can see, there's not enough room to get setup properly sight-side, and I'm absolutely awful at blind-side. So sight-side it was. Which meant a LOT of wiggling around to get the ### of my trailer pointed toward the hole. It only took 35 minutes and stopping several times to let my air charge back up, but I got it in there without tearing anything up. Next time they tell me to put it there I'm m going to ask for a different spot. There were plenty of other empty spots available.

 

Surprised they gave you a specific spot. They told me just to drop it any where back there and go get paperwork signed