The misadventures of a rookie tanker yanker

Spending the night in Cincinnati and heading out to KC in the morning. That means I'll probably end back up in Markham late on Friday.

If they ain't got nothing for me heading out on the weekend, I'll hole up in the hotel, do laundry and watch football.

 

Picked up the loaded tank and rolled up 497 miles of money belt to the 101 on 70. Doing my 10 here and then running over to Bayer Cropscience in Kansas City. It's 100 miles away, so I'll get back close to Markham tomorrow night before shutting it down. If they don't have me rolling before Monday morning, I'll watch football in a hotel and get the laundry done.

In other news, I put my return home in for next Thursday.

 

I've been changing it up between 2 weeks out followed by 1 week or less outs. Being new, I run longer than I need to as I figure things out. The home team is letting me know they don't care for these longer two week adventures, so I'll start cutting it back.

That's one of the things I really like about this outfit. I simply tell them when I want to be back and they get me back on that day. When I get back, I tell them when I want to go out, and they get me a load headed out.

I might do a 3 or 4 day out and back after I've been home for 5 or 6 days. Still have decided, but that's 3 weeks away yet.

I never need to miss a birthday or holiday with this place, and that means a lot to my family. We're kinda crazy about birthdays and holidays.

Well, I got to start my day. Should be almost back to Markham tonight.

 

Arrived an hour early and watched the safety video. Waiting to be called onto the scale. I don't start my unloading clock until my arrival time or when they call me to come in. That's what I see as the right way to do it.

It's cold as heck here. Negative five wind chill. I believe this is one of those places where I sit in the truck while they unload me. Well, that's what I'm wishing for this morning.

 

We don't get traffic delay at my terminal. I'm probably going onto the hourly wage for unloading delay. Another Superior driver is sitting ahead of me and he had a 0600 appointment.

Let's just go ahead and say it, I'll be making some hourly unloading delay pay today, and probably several if it keeps going like this. The guy who just came out took 3 hours to get unloaded.

The good news is that my tank wash message came in so I can start out towards Markham as soon as I'm done. I don't need to sweat things. I'm getting paid to play on my phone. That's how I look at these situations.

 

And all of the sudden I'm getting unloaded and sent to Memphis. Flexible and getting some unload delay pay.