Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

All trailers here are loaded except the red tagged one. And I am picking up here going to Minooka.

 

I looked at the trailer with the wonky landing gear they're talking about. It was recently inspected and serviced on 5/29. The problem with the landing gear is that they were replaced, but whomever replaced them, welded the top mounts 6" farther out than they're supposed to be, so the distance between the top of the legs is a foot wider than the bottom, so it is bowlegged, which has now bent the big plates on the outside of the legs that keep the landing gear from folding front-to-back.






Just got off the phone with breakdown...surprise surprise, they said nobody had reported it to them, so now they need to get a driver to bring and empty down from Columbus and take the bad one back for repairs.

 

And I just found out, the Princess is out again today. Wish I could survive working part time like she does.

 

Of the few times I have actually spoken to her, she sounds like a typical middle aged Nebraskan, but her extra time off is similar to my last dispatcher at SPD who had medical issues, so who knows, she might be the one.

 

Well, they unloaded the trailer I brought in, then reloaded it with my Minooka load. They were live loading another Shafter's load on the empty he brought in. I have my next pplan for after I drop the Minooka. Live load in Montgomery, IL at noon tomorrow, going to Murfreesboro for a Sunday drop. Which fits my hours pretty well. After I drop this load tomorrow, I will be into bonus-land, which isn't impressive to me. As hard as I have intermittently been running, 28,800 by the 3rd week of the 3rd month ain't squat. My busy times at SPD before Daseke, W-TFI, and SPD's VP changed ####, I could do that many miles in a few days over 2 months, and that was using a whole lot more logbook time doing loading, securing and tarping.