The adventures of 'Team Klingon'

Well par for the course I guess... got preset - thinking 'cool - pick up today and head for home!! Drop this in Stockton and see the Grand!!'

NOT

Instead - appt is at 1500 in CA - we get detained at WM (2.5 hrs) our previous load in AZ and notify the weekender DMs that we will be in CA late. We were assured that we would get loaded as soon as we got here. So we get here only 1.5 hours later than our appt time... and guess what?? They are closed!! They closed at 0230 this morning and won't open back up until 0500 tomorrow!! So tell me, how were they going to load us even if we were 'on time'?? We went back and checked the load information - and yep it said the 5th - and we are here on the 5th - I'm aiming for detention - think I'll get it?? GRRR!!!

 

I'm hoping though - there was the snaffoo on the 4th of July - we got to the shipper, but the planner/CS hadn't added the PU number to the load info - had to wait until the morning of the 5th on them to come back into the office to get the info - we got detention for that one. However we weren't 'late' at the 01... needless to say we will fight for this one, but we aren't expecting them to come through Our fighting points will be the wrong pu date (the 01 was closed) and the DM telling us to get there and they would load us when we got there even though we would be late due to being detained at WM (where we put in for detention there too)

 

Well we made it 'home'... not quite as early as we wanted, but we are here Squeezing the Grand and doing 'paperwork' - LOL!

 

Well its been a while since we have contributed to this thread... made it home and my daughter tossed me a surprise birthday party - love her anyway - LOL! I told her when I turn 50 I would dye my hair, so I am now a red head Klingon and I are back on the road and trying to catch up w/miles - so far so good - but could be better. We planned on being out 2 months, but life interupted our plans and we will need to head 'home' the first part of October - sigh. Not sure who said that 'home time' messed with the pay check, but who ever said that is RIGHT!! No negative check - but positive by only a little

Having to scrutinize our settlement w/a fine tooth comb!! It makes me wonder about other folks that might not look quite as closely - the company probably makes a bunch of money off of them! I just got off my driving shift and we are on a 'tight run' - but I have to go through the settlement - and I'm trying to do that in a moving truck in downtown Atlanta, GA evening rush hour traffic - not the best idea!! So I'm taking a break and typing this update instead - LOL! It's just inputting data left, so that I can do later (or so I'm telling myself).

Well back to the grind stone - and hoping I don't get 'truck sick' - I have 7 hours until I drive again, and I still need to get some sleep - wish me luck!!

 

Had some great home time - and put a new peice of bling on Matilda.



The back peice of aluminum was really thin so we reinforced it with a 1/4 plate of metal (Gary knows what type - something about what they use in armored cars) So much nicer since we don't have access to the jockey box on the passenger side except by lifting up the bunk... THAT was a pain!! Some day there will be a twin on the other side for the chains