Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Well, I am in as even worse truck than the nanny mobile I brought in to Marietta. No one way rentals available so I had the choice to wait for one or to take a daycab with only some of my stuff, pick up a load to FL, then pick up my truck and get back thru Marietta for the rest of my stuff asap (which in Ops speak is 'whenever we feel like it'...so I took the mini nanny mobile, and it's more of a #####-box than the other truck. I can't wait to retire from this nightmare.

 

It's flatbed code adapted to make it acceptable to the forum's cuss filter...I'll translate. Said the A/M is too much of an a-hole to admit that his mileage quotas aren't where they should be to get his dispatcher bonus for keeping his drivers in their quarterly bonus land.

 

Well, I got to Deland with this daycab but soon realized I neglected to remind them to leave keys for my truck where I could find them. On Monday, the original plan was for me to be assigned that truck in Pensacola, so I turned in all my keys when I left. At 22:00, I arrived in Deland in a daycab, and was basically homeless. So, I called breakdown and had them book a room. Even though this whole week was a 3 ring gong show, Deland has done everything they can to be accommodating to get me back to a drivable truck I can accept. I found that, if I were to be permanently assigned to one of those nanny-mobile video arcade simulators with an automated transmission, I would end up being one of the most unproductive drivers in Deland's fleet because the only way I could keep those stupid driver distraction devices from driving me insane was slow down to 55-60 mph when in moderate or worse traffic (that was traveling at normal road speed) and basically piss off enough people that I became the jerk holding up traffic, but people would be going fast enough when they got around me that the nanny sensor wouldn't trigger the ear piercing beep when they pulled back in front of me. Yes, it pissed people off, but my name isn't on the side of the truck for them to be pissed off at, it says Crete/Shaffer. So now the challenge is to get this load to Arcadia and try to get back thru Marietta by noon on Saturday to get the rest of my stuff. I have a feeling I may be spending the weekend in the Marietta terminal until the office opens on Monday...yes, I have no faith in our planners to be able to accomplish that simple of a task.

 

Then I would be delegated to a slow truck that way too. Without cruise, we can't go 68...pull the fuses or block the sensor and it kills the cruise. So, it's 6 one way or half a dozen the other.