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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wsyrob, post: 2933802, member: 10487&quot;]<b>11/12-11/20</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Not the best week. I picked up a a load of glue on the yard around 10 AM Monday to deliver 20 miles away. The plan was for me to deliver the load then get top loaded from the same rack. Problem was my appointment to deliver was 11:00 and my load appointment was 3 PM. You guessed it, another truck showed up at 1 PM and they wouldn&#039;t top load me until he was unloaded to avoid demurage. This load also was only 700 miles delivering Wednesday. Not the best way to use half the week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure enough it was a pump unload that took about 3.5 hours to get off. Plant staff insisted that I pump it saying one driver refused and it took 8 hours. They weren&#039;t paying for that. They even had a little section on the paperwork they fillout on &quot;driver attitude&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I was tankwashed back to Derby City Tank Wash in Louisville to drop the dirty trailer and grab a clean one to load in Cincy Thursday. I had the tankwash clean my pump. They washed it out a while, hooked up a 3 inch hose to the inlet and told me to turn on my pump. As soon as it engaged the shaft on the pump snapped. That glue was rock solid. only way to clean would have been to disassemble the pump. Fortunately the PTO shaft rested on a frame rail higher than the bottom of the pump. There was also a U bold to keep it from sliding back and forth. I bungied it to keep it from bouncing around. The shop replaced my pump with one off another truck on Friday when I got back</p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday I loaded antifreeze in Cincinnati that delivered to the Volvo Truck plant in Dublin Va. After uneventful load and unload I was home by noon Friday with a whopping 1600 mile 2 load week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Monday I got a 380 mile coal mine pump load to Waynesburg Pa delivering Tuesday. Dispatch told me that company policy is to get all drivers home for Thanksgiving but if I wanted to stay out they could put my name in the computer to not come home. I envisioned loading some 700 mile load on Wednesday that delivered Monday and declined. I asked him if he had anything going West for next week and was told not yet but you never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>I headed out to grab my load 20 miles away and got a call on the way. Dispatch in Karns City called Scott to see if I wanted a load going to Casa Grande Az delivering Monday 11/26. I am loading in the morning in Niagra Falls NY. I hate to miss Thanksgiving with my family but this money was too good to turn down. My guess is none of the Karns City drivers wanted to be out over the holidays or one of them would have gotten it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also got lucky and the chemical company rep who met me at the coal mine this morning wanted to air off the load. One 2 inch hose and because the plant requires a harness to climb up on the tank he hooked up my air hoses. It doesn&#039;t get any better than that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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