My new experience with Gordon Trucking, post-buyout

I sure this comes out nice! Shortly after the morning QC's with my DM, I picked up the load of car seats and went up I65 to the nearest rest area to wait until midnight when I gain 12 hours. Shortly after I got here, I get a call from a driver saying he's on the way to pick up my trailer and will be here in a few hours. I had just gotten an updated delivery time from a different DM so this surprised me.

To make a long series of emails back and forth a bit shorter, let me say this: the load was pulled, an explanation was given, calls were mad to the other driver, and finally what I can only describe as a VERY exasperated email from my DM saying I'm back ON the load for delivery using the new delivery time tomorrow sometime.

I can just imagine the scene in that dispatch office in Indy. The changes happening, the new freight lines and authorities, and the new bosses making themselves known commodities must be putting a huge stress on the employees. Having email as the primary means of communication is good under those conditions.

And she knows about my need to get to a shop. Being The New Guy, I'm trying to find the balance between being my normal assertive self and what a woman I was married to characterized as a RPITA. I empathize with them and do NOT want to be the cause of headaches; they have enough.

So now off to sleep for a few hours in hopes of a successful northbound flight of fancy.

 

I know GTI shops will do that; do the MasterTech shops do it, too?

And yes, you did pick a good week not to be driving, especially down South. Wow.

 

I did that the day before when I sent in a revised ETA. The response was to run with it and we'll see how the times work out. No biggie. I even told her today I wouldn't fuel until after delivery so as not to delay it any more than necessary. I have the fuel so if I can cut out a half hour or so, I will.

 

I'm waking up to a sunny day in the drop lot at a Walmart DC in Hammond, IN. I'll soon leave to go pickup a load at International Paper nearby and then I'll be draggin' the wagon over to Cedar Rapids and dropping it in the General Mills parking lot.

For some reason, I, too, am having difficulty getting to Indy. Or any GTI shop to get my window washer fixed. Everybody knows about it but somehow, the key hasn't been found yet. Who knows...maybe it will keep the nasty snow-salt away for a while. That would be good, no?