The misadventures of a rookie tanker yanker

Waiting to get my first load since Florence. That'll be next Monday or Tuesday.

Heard the new pay raise is 56 loaded and 45 empty across the company starting October 29th. We went from 16 to 20 an hour for delay pay at our terminal. That pay is terminal specific. That all works for me since I do enough system work.

 

Thanks. I've been nothing but thankful. Everyone is ok and I had no need to dispatch. I was happy to be home and deal with the clean up and take bids. Found the company we want, settled the insurance, and work will be done soon enough.

I have a dedicated run up to Lincoln RI Monday, so I'll be here during the roof replacement next weekend. I'm redoing the chimney myself, so I'll do that in-between tear off and installation of the new roof. Love it when things come together. Upgraded to architectural shingles and the Rhino liner underlayment. It'll take a much bigger storm to hurt that.

 

Went to load in Aurora. A slow leak from the flange caused loading to stop halfway thru. Offloaded the acid and brought the tank back to Wilmington last night. That load is now rescheduled for next week.

Grabbed a dedicated to GA so I can be home Friday and over the weekend when the rood and ceiling gets done. I load out tomorrow and will be back Thursday night.

The garage door I had ordered before the storm got installed last night. My wife is happy that I had an automatic opener installed. No more, " will you open the garage door," from her in the future. Yeah, I did it for her. You betcha. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

Roofers showed up as I was about to head out to Wilmington this morning. Glad they are here a few days early, but it caught me off guard. Jeff, our local guy, agreed to load for me. I can show up around 1500 and roll out. That's a big help. I wanted to be closing in on GA by then, but no worries, it'll all work out.

The roofing crew is good and well organized. I went up and pointed out additional sub roofing I wanted replaced and they got right on it. The chimney had more water intrusion than I originally thought, so I had them resheet it. They have cleaned along the way and have been nothing short of professional.

My neighbor is equally impressed with them and asked for an estimate on his own roof.

 

How'd his boat hold up? I went thru there last week and saw a few boats heavily damaged and a few sunk.