My May Journal

I decided to start a journal of sorts to track my trips and miles, not only for new guys interested in May, but also for myself. If anyone else would like to add their trip journal of sorts, go ahead. It would be nice to see your journey with May too.

Week #1
May 25th-May31st

Started the week With a load coming from Othello, WA to Burley, ID. Some sort of frozen potato product. The plant in Othello is a new customer and there were quite a few of our trucks there. Nice to know there is another customer in the southern Washington area. Load picked up on Tuesday and had to be in Burley Wednesday morning. Good thing I have a student on board. Got to Burley an hour ahead of schedule and got a load out of the same plant headed to Denver to finally get my student solo'd out. We get into Denver and deliver our load Friday morning and head back to the yard to enjoy the end of May Days in Denver (Denver had the best last day for May Days, STEAK!) and to solo out my student. I felt bad for the guy when he was taking his solo test since they had invited new prospective students from local schools to come out and run the test course, also quite a few seasoned drivers as well. He took his time and made it through the course no problem, went out on his drive test and came back ...... soloed! I finished up Friday helping him get his stuff out of the truck and did a little spring cleaning and finally got the rest of my crap put away in the new truck. Sat around Saturday in the drivers lounge and finally got a load. Didn't have to pick it up until Sunday going to Fayetteville, AR to deliver on the 31st at 1000. So I got in a reset that I probably didn't need. Oh well. Picked my load up out of Coors on Sunday and the refer would not start. Stupid old Thermoking
I figured I would just send a Breakdown message on Tuesday while I am getting unloaded and get it fixed then since this was not a refrigerated load. Got into Fayetteville on Monday late afternoon and tried to find a spot at the Springdale Pilot (i540 exit 72), didn't happen. You would think at 3pm I could find atleast one spot, but no. So I headed down to Jobo's (i540 exit 58 ) and found a spot there and called it a night. Got up Tuesday morning and sent in my breakdown message for the refer and headed off to the consignee. Got to the consignee and immediately into a dock and unloaded 35 minutes later. Oh how I love beer loads. Usually get unloaded rather quickly. Breakdown gets back to me and tells me to go to Thermoking in Lowell, AR to get refer fixed. Got to Transport Refrigerated of Northwest Arkansas and had them take a look. All it needed was to be primed and the battery charged. Apparently whoever had it last, let it run out of fuel. You cannot escape stupid people where ever you go. The guys at Transport Refrigerated were awesome. Kept me up to speed on the progress of everything and were very courteous. After that was taken care of, I figured I could find a spot at the Pilot in Springdale since it was only 1pm and grab a bite and shower. I come back over to find the lot packed, again, with only 1 spot left open. Hoping for a load out of here sometime tonight or tomorrow so I don't have to sit too long. Time will tell. I didn't get an exact figure for mileage from my first couple trips this week since I was not planning on doing this until just recently. I will put in my last trip and keep better detailed records in the future.

Mileage Driven: 833
Mileage Paid: 22/783
Miles Difference: 28 or 3.3%

 

Do you ever find time to drive?

 

I'm just giving ya a hard time there driver. Hence the smilies.