The start of my first year with Swift.

So far....from what the old guys have told me, this is just a slow time of year. With the load I have heading to Boise I'll have just over 3k miles for the week. I hope it continues. I too see a trend in people leaving Swift for better pay. It happens in the LE world as well. I'm going to try and make the most of things and give it a chance before I make any rash decisions. Hell...I'm only 51, I've got lots of time....

 

This is my update for today.

I'm sitting at a Super Kmart waiting to be unloaded. This is my second stop for the day. I had planned my day around the idea that, per the dispatch, I could deliver 1/2 early. NOT. The first stop wouldn't even look at the seals until exactly 0900, the stated delivery time. It took them nearly two hours to unload. I called ahead to this stop and asked if there was a place to park and wait. They said sure. I arrive 2.5 hours early, park and jump into the sleeper thinking I would be able to save some hours by doing a split sleeper. 1/2 hour before the delivery time I get a msg asking if I was at final. Yep, just waiting until the exact delivery time. I decided to ring the back door and see if I could at least dock. No one answered. I called and asked to the receiving supervisor. She had gone home for the day. Finally the store manager came on and said they would not open the dock up until 1500. So much for being 1/2 hour early. I thought I would speed things up by at least lining up with the one dock that didn't have anything piled in front of it. Bad call on my part. At 1505 they came out, cut the seals, and said I need to move over because the dock plate didn't work....uugh. Oh well. Just another day really. I'm trying to hurry so I can get my pickup my load in SLC and head for home. I hoped to maybe make it tonight. Not gonna happen.

That's it for now.

 

Why yes I was...19 days ago. I've spent way to many years overseas and away from my wife to live in a truck for months on end. She might just kill me and throw me in a hole. I have to go home to keep the peace. Besides, she pays the bills.