Millis OTR journal

Got nuttin’ else to do.

 

Here I've got one for you guys:

I've been hooked to the same 2019 trailer for the past week. The first or second night I had it, I lost enough air overnight where it popped my trailer brakes. When I got up the next day, I started the truck, let my air charge, released the brakes and went to check to see if ai could hear a leak. Nothing. No Meritor lights were lit either.

Ever since then, I've not lost enough air overnight to notice.

So my question is: WTF?

 

Sick and tired of not ever getting any miles at Millis. Only got 3,333 last week. Guess it's time to call that CR England recruiter back.

 

I was off all week last week but you are 3rd guy I know who had a good week. @JOHNQPUBLIC had a real good week and another guy I know was over 3600.

 

I would do a lease purchase with Prime first.

 

Well got my normal come out of the house load today from Sterling IL to Holiday City OH. Then Opie gave us a Plano from Holiday City and going down to Streator to grab a Memphis for Weds 6am. Then our week looks like this...

St Cloud March 6
Memphis March 8
St Cloud March 10
Memphis March 12
St Cloud March 14
Memphis March 16

Opie said its 1st time in 32 yrs hes seen that many loads/reloads actually preplanned already all at once lmao

So new student and I on the gravy train for awhile and allows me to get home for roughly 24 hrs every other night

 

Not counting the week I went home, I think I've only had one week with < 3k miles so far this year.

 

If I wanted to do a fleece purchase, I'd so that through CRE as well. Then I can really find out what it's like to be poor.

 

I hope I get pulled into a similar loop once I get to La Crosse with this load.

Ugh... I love triangle loads as much as anybody, but I swear I am cursed when it comes to Rochester.

This time the curse started when I picked up at Midwest in Memphis. Got the green light, pulled up, sealed trailer, then pulled on out and parked on the curb. Go inside to check out. They tell me to put it back in the door. They forgot something. Okay not really that big of a deal, but still.

So then I get to Rochester with the load today. For starters I had a hard time getting someone to answer the phone. Finally I got ahold of someone. Delivery check in is fine. Reload check in has wrong E-number. Message dispatch back and forth and get the right E-number. Call them back. Then I'm told that the load has been deleted from the system but they'd call me when they had a door for my delivery. As I'm dropping my trailer on the door I get a message from dispatch. no reload yet. ####. BT down to the waiting area and wait a couple hours before finally getting a load. Midwest Warehouse, 1600 Lexington Avenue. Hmmm. Hadn't been to that one yet. Fortunately the QC directions were good and the place was all but empty when I got there. So they loaded me, I gtfo of there, and now I'm sitting at the Native Pride TS because the Angola service plaza was full like it always seems to be.

The original reload was supposed to go to St. Cloud. This one goes to La Crosse. Hopefully I can get something out of there going back down to Memphis and can spend the next little bit running up and down I55. I'm starting to like that road.

 

Glad you liked my directions. I went there for the first time a couple weeks ago and there were no directions so I sent some in. Guess they just got started there. They have me door "B" at the very end near that compactor. Just as you pull in thru the door. Luckily it was empty when I went in too otherwise that would have been a serious pain. It was full when I went back to grab the trailer.
The load I had was also going to St Cloud but I didn't go there. Relayed it to another driver.

How is Native Pride? Have never been there.