Millis OTR journal

@JOHNQPUBLIC has went to that building. Pretty sure driver directions came from him

 

Load info says Midwest, right? If so, go through the gate, make the first right past the drop lot/staging area and go.all the way down to the end. You'll see rh sign for Midwest there on the corner telling you where to go check in.

 

Well this week is off to a fantastic start....Opie called in sick( hopefully its just being extra cautious and nothing else) and we finally get a load at 7 30am going from Centralia to Atlanta ok cool nice 700miles...we take off heading south and get 20mins down the road when the load is pulled from me and we get put on a 400 mile Sterling IL to Holiday City....Sterling is north we are already headed south...call in to Millis and have a not very friendly conversation with Jeff Millis who refuses to put us back on the Centralia load

No reason at all to take us off the Centralia load other than it was 200 empty miles where Sterling is 100 empty miles. So now we had to find a spot to turn around and head the right direction....

Its like fn clockwork here that as soon as Opie is gone things become a cluster #### every single time

 

I think my dispatcher must be out too. All I've had is little nitpicking loads. 357, 297, 386, 288, and 382 miles. Malarkey. I'm trying to stay out here and run through this plague but if they don't throw me a bone I'm gonna go home and try to get moved into my house.

Anybody been to Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan? How bad of a time is it?

 

Ive never been but I've never heard a good thing about our piggy wiggly loads

 

I figured as much. After all, grocery warehouse means lumpers.

That right there is the one thing that makes me want to pull some kind of trailer other than a box or a reefer. If I never had to deal with another lumper load in my life it would be too soon.

 

The reviews are actually pretty good for that place if you are going to Union Ave

 

With states closing all non essential businesses that’s about that all going to be left to haul is medicine, food, drinks and their raw materials till this all passes over.

 

Yea they've "closed" all non essential places but basically everything except clothing stores and beauty salons have been deemed essential lol. Lowes, menards, beer distributors, are all supposedly essential. Barely anything has changed with the shutdowns, its pointless. Oh and restaurants can't be dine in.

 

I’ve been to that Piggly Wiggly twice both times just under 2 hours. I pull a refer so don’t know about the dry side.