Stevens Transport aviary

Stopped for the night at Slidell LA, headed for San Antonio Sunday, for a monday AM delivery.

 

Sometimes Stevens can be a frustrating place. Today I was scheduled to go on home time after I delivered my load in the morning. I make my delivery. I am told to take the empty trailer to a local shipper and drop it off. After that I am to take the truck to a Kenworth dealership an hour away and leave the truck there. Being that today is a Saturday I ask my dispatcher if the KW dealer is open due to it being a weekend. "Oh yes it is open" he says. I get there and the place is locked up tight. An hour wasted. I call back and I am told to take the truck to a truck storage place a few miles away but I will have to come back and get it on Monday and take it to the dealership because the storage place charges $25.00 a day.

I drive to the truck storage lot. It is not a lot but a small truckstop complete with a fuel aisle and eatery. They charge for parking. There is a fence in along the front of the property but nothing surrounding the place and no gate. It is completely devoid on anything resembling any kind of security. Anyone could drive in there at any time. I tell Stevens this. A few minutes later I am called back and asked if I could "help them out".

There is a loaded trailer at a Peterbilt dealership and all I have to do is go pick it up and take it back to the truck stop where I started this morning. It will be repowered in the morning. So here I sit babysitting a trailer after a day of running around.

Once I am repowered in the morning I will drop the trailer at Tropicana and take the truck to another drop yard. The person who is going to take this trailer has a meat load. That will probably mean the truck needs a washout before going to tropicana. That means I will probably have to wait to Monday to start my time off because there are no truck washes in the area that are open on Sunday........

 

That's why I run dry van, I don't have to sleep with a noisy reefer penetrating the back wall of my sleeper. don't have to get trailer washouts, don't have to do pallet exchanges, don't have to go to grocery warehouses and cold storage facilities, don't have to be responsible if the reefer takes a crap, don't have to pull 44,000+ loads every trip, and best of all I don't have to babysit a reefer all weekend long. You guys don't get paid any extra to put up with all that crap, one day you guys will get it, one day!

 

Good strategery. Request your repower at perrysburg oh, I80 exit 77. Then you can get a campbells soup load, or pick up a load from canada from one of the dedicated fleet that runs in and out.

 

when national beef blows the DLD, they will reschedule the delivery. And they blew it big time on your load.

Good strategy to let them know, and let them know often.

 

Now that totally sucks....

Home time has been an adventure for you each time.

Sometimes the best answer to "can you help us" is NO.

 

Today, I was finally able to make it to my hometime with no real bumps in the road. The repower happened a few hours later than I would have liked, however, that was caused by the other driver's receiver. Once the swap was complete I was on my way to Bradenton. I bobtailed back to tampa to a storage yard and now I am at home and on time off. That means I can finally enjoy me a few adult beverages .

 

Glad you got there.
I am sitting at Safeway in Denver waiting for a dock. My 14 is past.
Im suppose to be heading home for the last week.
Wonder if they'll let me do my 10 in the parking lot here