Quitting one company for another.

What you mean by non-4 days hometime? Nevermind. I just realized what you meant. I just stated facts. And in reality, the three to four hours it would have taken me to get home if I had taken the interstate would have been cut down to 2 and a half hours max. A friend of mine drives that area a lot because he drives a log truck and the Mills where he takes the logs to are in that area. I have been with him a couple of times so I know that part of Virginia. Get me into NC from there and I know just about every road down there and a few dirt roads.

 

Well, it would offer the chance to get out west instead of being restricted to East of the Mississippi. The only thing is the snap binders and rachet binders they hand out are crappy and so rusty that it would take a hydraulic press just to make them work. The straps they hand out have rips and tears half the time. Not to mention, most of their flat bed trucks look like they just come out of the junk yard. They look more worn out then an 80 year old woman that has worked at a wh#$e house all her life.

 

Anyway, I'm going to bed. I didn't get much sleep last night and it is telling on me today. I'm going to call my DM in the morning about being held up by weekend dispatch for a day and let him know that it won't happen again. I will make sure of that. Y'all have a good day or night.

 

Oh boy. Weekend dispatch is funny. I stopped for the night in Elkton MD and about midnight, they asked me if I could deliver the load last night. Man, that really ticked me off. I told them, no I'm not delivering it last night and my eyes would be between 1400 and 1500 which is well before the latest time I could drop it off. Another hot time sensitive Walmart load. I wanted to tell em I will deliver it on Christmas day at noon time but I was too tired to even bother. It will be delivered on time though.

 

The delivery window is all day today. I told my DM this morning that is should be there between 2 pm and 4 pm this afternoon which includes my fuel stop and the thirty minute break which I am taking right now. By the time I'm ready to roll again, I will be an hour or two shy of running out my eleven hour clock when I deliver this load, which should be enough time to get to a truck stop for the night. And there is a pilot truck stop about 40 minutes away from where I drop this load. Even if I run out of hours or get close to it, I can use personal conveyance to get there.