Parked Here for the Night

Wore Out IMHO---Your week is off to an excellent start...$65hour...no fuel.no wear&tear....jus tellem you will stay till Thur...then ..say #### it at the 100 hr mark..bounce home slowly

$6500 for the week.....real short run....life is good

jus sayin

 

In my case, that's when an scanner with a feeder tray comes in handy.

We don't run the OH Tpk much, I never have. I finally was on it last week moving from PA for a quickie, good paying load I picked up in eastern OH due to a schedule gap. I saw the DQ signs on the food options for the mm 237 service plaza and HAD to stop there to boost the fat and grease allowance in my diet. I'd heard OH service plazas were nice, but holy crap! They managed to design that place like an airport food court. Made me want to cancel my load so I could get a shower and spend the night there! I almost stopped at Panera for a healthy sandwich, but with restraint I stuck to the double cheeseburger plan LOL.

I set a personal record over the past 8 days myself, first time in a while that I've had to watch the recap. 4311 miles on an 7.5 day stretch. No drop & hook turn arounds, no coast-to-coast hauls, 5 loads all live load. This is why I make the tongue-in-cheek remark about you "professional drivers" out there. It's out of respect because I'm allergic to hard work like that, and a lot of you are doing that much all the time. Nothing record-breaking for you when you do a week like that.

On the other hand, there's now just over a week of paperwork and bill paying to get caught up on at home. Plus a little truck project with the rusty service panel that fell loose from my apu on the way in Saturday morning. I'll go to Home Depot and pick up a couple pieces of galvanized sheet for a little pre-work at home. Then take the patch panels and some new bolts, my drill, and taps out to the truck and close it back up before the next trip in a few days.

 

wont some camo duct tape work just as well RED ?

 

Man it was tough getting in the truck this morning...sitting at a shipper in Trenton, NJ so I can deliver up in Buffalo at 0900.

 

it wont break your heart to leave trenton
one year working at the prison was 364 days too many for me

 

Believe it or not, I considered a tape solution when figuring out my next step after noticing the panel hanging loose at my fuel stop in Ashland, VA. The black gorilla tape would have been sort of camouflage as it matched the paint not eaten by rust yet. I keep a roll in the side box, along with white duct tape for patches inside the trailer.

That, and/or buying a couple bungees in the TA to secure it enough to roll, were considered. Having reached a point in my schedule that minutes mattered, I figured pulling it off would be faster and avoid having to stop again when the tape or bungee failed.

Regarding the final repair, I am one to over-engineer a patch so I don't have to do it over again any time soon. Maybe one day I'll call on one of those dealers that sell used apu's and try to buy a good bottom case half and just replace mine. However, the cheap inner voice keeps telling me don't worry about it LOL.

 

My load is due in Phoenix tomorrow at 11am. I'm in West Memphis. Can you say not happening?

Waiting on a team to swap trailers with. Taking their load to Louisville for tomorrow.

 

Ol' Hand I do agree, I have never really got much detention before. I am still not used to having a non breathing load, I can sleep anytime I'm ready within reason. I just got up this morning lol now its on to Dalhart before they close. That gotta go right now mind set is hard to get out of my system.

 

After 35 years on the ocean my first inclination was always replace everything with stainless
but fabricating at the welding shop would be extravagant in a company truck

 

Hey Red... I would like to congratulate you for the record... But since you don't like it, maybe I should not... One thing I would like to mention though is that for me personally, running long miles is not hard work... It's fun! I haven't been doing this long enough... and not tired of it yet...