Running With Schneider - 2 (As IC Choice for more than a year now!)

Yep, made it by the house! From Fontana to Porterville 200 mile run, Shafter to Shafter 6 mile run.. 6 mile run you say??? Paid $170 Drop and hook both ends so I figured what the hell,, Then grabbed load out of Bakersfield and went over to apple Valley near home. Have 3 more loads to finish the week out.. Shaping up to be a busy summer going forward I think.

 

Sitting close to my next pick up this morning here at Walmart. Delivered yesterday, grabbed MT and parked it. Good full day, having trucked 37 miles to get that load and 467 to deliver it same day. No problem finding MT's at this stop. The next pick up is actually right next door to last drop I just made. Got about a mile 1/2 deadhead to pick it up because have to drive around a few buildings to get to it. This next load is a heavy one weighing in at 41,800 but only taking it 280 miles back on down to Bakersfield area where I will pick up my next 14,000 lb load heading to Utah. I'm north in Cali up around Sacramento right now.

 

Picked up there in Woodland and ran that 41,800 lb load to Bakersfield.. Wow! so use to pulling lighter loads after hooking up to this one it felt like a 100,000 lb load. Kinda seem like my truck was a little tug boat pulling one of those 1300 ft, 174,000 ton Maersk cargo ships.. Extreme comparison i know! But it was a bit more cumbersome than normal.

Drove 290 miles, delivered that load and grabbed an MT for my next load (they had many to choose from! That's cool!). Then deadheaded 10 miles, dropped & hooked and beat feet another 220 miles towards UT where I will deliver tomorrow. 14,000 lb load and wind to my back!

 

Delivered here in Utah ..long day about 530 miles today. Easy driving tho straight up the I 15. Tomorrow grabbing another light load and heading on down to southern cal. Should clear over $5000 this week in revenue.. Not bad for being a West Coast Kid!

 

Screwed up picking this load I am on now.. Has a delivery appt for 1500 on 22nd, picked it up today at 1400. I'm going be there on 21st. Note: Salt Lake UT area is approximately 700 miles from where I wanted to go in Southern Ca. Easy run in a day and half. When shopping the loads there were 3 or 4 I was watching and they all delivered on 21st. I picked this load thinking somehow it was set to deliver on 21st not 22nd...agghhh. I probably could of given it back but don't like doing that much. It is super light 4400 LB and needed to let some hours catch up to me so thought I will just keep it.

Any-hay, Put in my ETA for 1 day early..Support shift sent me a message saying, "be sure and call in the morning to see if it is ok to deliver early".. I really hope it is.. However worst case scenario I can take my truck to Thermo king and get the Tri pac looked at again..It's on the blink again, don't think the last part they replaced a couple weeks ago actually worked. The #### thing will still only run cool air for about 2 hours and then it's done! That means it is running off my truck batteries..Not Good! I think the batteries in the actual TriPac E are shot! 4 year warranty on those and i know they are expensive so they might be trying to avoid replacing them.. Will see

Wasn't planning on stopping this week at the shop. Was planning on doing it next week on home time, but ...it is.. what it is! Hopefully they will take the load early or maybe relay it, but if not will get my truck worked on.

 

Thanks TennMan. Hopefully so, or even if they can actually just figure out what is wrong with darn thing would be great!