Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

Not sure who loads and tarps our loads out of Ottawa, but they need to learn how. The belly tarp for the load I picked up yesterday was just sorta loosely draped up there with half the ropes not tied.(it's a royal PITA to retie the belly tarp once the main tarp is in place.). The back flap was all bunched up and you could see the back of the glass. It took me over an hour to rework their part of the tiedown then secure my part of the tiedown. Now, I am waiting on my ACI to be approved. I sent it to our afterhours yesterday and had my ACI by 1700, but the brokers PARS check still shows 'not found'...I was hoping to hang with Canada loads until Thanksgiving, then tell them to shove them up their wazoo before Wylie starts doing our border paperwork...but I may no last that long.

 

I am about to tell my dispatcher to take me off the Canada runs immediately. I was gonna wait until after Thanksgiving before ending my Canadian runs but this last trip has me hating the thought of ever dealing with U.S. Customs again. This half-tard in Champlain got pissed because I didn't complete a 7553 form for an empty trailer. No other border crossing has ever required that form for an empty...not even the one at the Detroit/Ambassador bridge, which is known for their quality of egotistical ########.

On top of that, my ELD took a crap, so now I am on paper until I get back to Church Hill. Until now, I didn't have issues with elogs, but these ELD pieces of crap have me contemplating taking my last paycheck and filing bankruptcy, then getting out of trucking completely

 

Based on the scuttlebutt, the reason for the abrupt merger with Wylie was because Moore was on the verge of having to ask Daseke for more money just for payroll. Not sure how true that is, but they were getting mighty tight with layover pay right before the merger was announced, so it might be a distinct possibility.

 

This is what the empty trucks look like until January. Supposedly there is a Wylie logo under there and that white sticker is easy to remove once we officially become 100% Wylie.

 

I rarely use to exit in Champlain, I would usually opt for 1000 islands or Niagra Falls, but I was short on my daily hours and also on my last day in Canada without putting a 24 hr on the logbook, so it was Champlain or sit in Canada for a day.

I appreciate the advice about other glass haulers, but my love of hauling glass is rapidly coming to a close, it's just to narrow of a freight base to be consistently busy. In fact, based on how bad my wrist has been aching, I believe my open deck career is also coming to a close as well. So, whether I like it or not, I will most likely be seeing a big box following my truck for the rest of my driving life.