Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

Well, sure. They were even honest and admitted they were understaffed and overworked. But I was late. Couldn't be otherwise. In their shoes, I would have turned me away too.

All I can do is all I can do.

Unless i wanted to risk a 1800 dollar tandem overweight ticket, plus whatever other fun would pile on top of that. No thanks.

 

Not all the scales are closed. The scale on I71 mile 3 in OH was open. I will not count on scales being closed to avoid large overweight tickets.

Will I run a load that's a few pounds over? Sure. Been there. Done that. But 1700 lbs over? Nope.

 

I understand that. There might be room for the stuff, but if half your work crew is out sick, you simply cannot do the same amount of unloading, even if you have room for it.

 

So, today's fun.

They decided to drop the rescheduled load in the Indianapolis terminal, then they gave me two more loads. One to pick up the next morning, live load and drop/hook at final. The other to drop/hook at shipper and receiver.

So, it was looking like my week would be 650, miles, then 500, then 400, then 200, then 500, then a 34 and deliver the day after that. Basically a garbage week.

I was told I could not overnight at the first shipper. Fine. Nobody answered the phone there. I saw a truck stop very close to them.

So, I went there and asked nicely if they might be able to load me today, instead of tomorrow. They said yes. So I got loaded, and hauled the load to final, after verifying through the CSR that I could drop a day earlier.

No empties at the site. They had 20 Shaffer trailers, but were 5 days behind schedule unloading. No Shaffer's in any unloading doors either. Le Sigh.

Drove to Columbus terminal (on my way to next load's pick) and there are like 40 empty reefers here, but every one is locked out, mostly stripped units for sale, but half a dozen higher number trailers locked out for service as well.

Ran out of hours in Columbus. Will recheck the Columbus yard tomorrow and see if any empty reefers have come in, or been repaired

 

Well, when drop trailers aren't being unloaded, things get... interesting. Not sure if the screwiness is the lack of loads, or lack of trailers.