The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Stressful day today (lol), ran a volume to a warehouse customer of ours. Unloaded and reloaded at the same inside dock, 452 miles total. Started at 4:00, finished at 14:00. Roads were dry and I even got a few glimpses of the sun on the way back. Life is good, 5:00am start tomorrow.

 

Mine are TL with multiple stops. Setting up my next run, and the last guy doesn't answer his phone, no name, just leave a message.

 

Shagged empties to a tire DC all night and picked up loaded ones. Piece of cake, especially since the mt's all went to doors instead of the postage stamp drop lot. As a bonus I got to watch the lunatic yard jockey bang trailers into each other, pull up for a better angle and bang 'em again. Looks like extra good pti's from now on.

The cherry on top of the night was my last load out. I normally get the bills from the gate guard, but their computers went down so I had to wait around while the little gal in the shipping office wrote them out by hand...as she stood leaning over her desk...in a low cut top. Had to work hard to not try for a peek.

 

It used to drive me nuts when my old TM used to hold up one of our other drivers as a shining example of dedication and customer service. "He can do 21 stops with no returns, blah blah blah."

Yeah, I covered that route. Hit one stop on the way into Louisville, one on the way out, and all the rest were right next to each other. He could literally turn out of one customer's lot into the next one. Most of the time he'd just hand tighten his straps instead of winching them down and undoing them again 30 seconds later. I had to goof off on that run so i didn't get back too early and get sent sonewhere else.

 

Every day is cake being a linehaul driver - kudos to you P&D guys. I especially have nothing to complain about, since I run daylight linehaul.

As long as the mild winter continues on the east coast, I'm happy as a clam.

 

We have been going through a dry patch.... Freight is generally slow this time of year
Mondays and Tuesdays are still pretty heavy (as usual for most LTL companies)
..... Going to enjoy the slow season while it last until around March when it gets crazy again
We work so many hrs, we can't keep drivers... So they pile it on the rest of us, ... it's a vicious circle

 

.... Yeah don't you just love having example drivers like this
.... Any driver can look like a rock star if they know how to run a cheat sheet .... I guess that's still a secret to some of these TMs tho

 

I can eat 50 eggs.

 

I can't stand mediating the child swapping arrangements between my wife and ex-wife during the middle of a peddle route. Did that yesterday. Everybody was confused as to what the plans were for the weekend. It sucks when work becomes your "peaceful place".