So I got a load after delivering in Syracuse that picks up in a tiny town up in Vermont at the Canadian border, St. Albans and goes down to Richmond, Virginia. Only two ways to go, up to US11 and piss around in the mountains, or I90 to I87 and then up north. I90 to I87 is longer by over 100 miles, but kept me out of the rain and winds and mess up there, not to mention it was all little mountain roads in rain and wind. So, think the weekend crew would okay going longer but safer? Nope. But I did it anyway. It was a Kraft production load. I shouldn't have to say anything else about that, right? So I expect a chewing from my DM tomorrow or the next day. But hell, he gets two days a week off and I can't get okays from him those days, so what else can I do? Go the shorter route that takes me right into a rain/wind/snow storm in the upper Adirondacks on narrow state roads? Or refuse to go and do a weather shutdown? Or take the 100 miles longer route and get the Kraft production load picked up and delivered on time?
Then of course, they take all day to load me, and I have just enough time to take I95 south and deliver on time, or take 301 and save another 100 miles but never make it on time.
Yeah, I'm getting chewed on this one. Oh well. Probably end up paying the extra miles. If I do, next time the same thing happens on a weekend, I'm parking and requesting a different run.
Anyway, got that one done, then I end up going from Suffolk to Chicago. Wonder how long I'll be stuck up there?
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