Trans Am Still

I notice you often post that you don't have a fuel solution. The 009 form has a place off to the far right to enter your tractor fuel level. I sometimes forget to fill it in as it is far to the right and does not really flow well in how you fill out the form. If I don't fill that out my fuel solution will come back "call dispatch". I wondered if that is the problem for you in not getting fuel solutions.

If I forget and get a "call dispatch" fuel solution, I just manually create a message and include: Odom, fuel level, refer fuel level and request an updated fuel solution.

 

Glad that worked out for you. Last time I made that drop and hook delivery, they did not have an empty. I ended up waiting 18 hours until they could unload the trailer that I brought in.

 

I thought I seen somewhere that they have or may change the rules on the 34 hour restart.

Anyone know about this ?

 

Does TA have a good presence in this part of Michigan? Plainwell isn't far from where I live.

 

It was one of the factors buried in the omnibus spending bill; it passed the House and the Senate now has it. It's still got a tough road ahead because of two very controversial provisions having to do with Big Banks and Big Finance. We will see.

 

Glad to have finally. Caught up on some sleep. Have been behind the 8 ball since coming out this time. Had my alarm set for 0630, heard it, evidently ignored it, and was woke up at 0800 by a phone call. 10 hrs of sleep did me good!!!

 

George, I was about to ask how you were going to end up in New Mexico on a Dallas to Denver run... Seriously, the back roads between Amarillo and I70 aren't troublesome at all, and you hit I70 just east of the Limon scales if you take the shortest route. Finding parking isn't an issue as a lot of those little towns have gas stations with big dirt lots to fit one or more trucks. I hate going to that Coke plant. Last time I pulled out of there my load shifted and when I crossed the Limon scale I was 36680 on my trailer. Scalemaster was kind to me and let me slide my tandems back and go free because in CO you can apparently have 36000 on an axle cluster and there is no bridge law.

I'm in Emporia. Load goes to Florida, three stops. Load is ready now but I'm gonna hang out for a couple more hours before I grab it. I'm pretty broke right now so am going to wait until a little later when I'm sure the Olathe scales will be closed and can run it to the yard to scale. I'm gambling on it not being so overweight I will need a load shift. Despite last week's messes, I still got 2650 miles, not to shabby all things considered.

 

I have been here once before. There are about 4 Trans Am trucks here. Plenty of trailers here but Cranky is right plenty of freight around here to keep us moving.

 

George is going to Colorado via New Mexico, because of snow chain laws being in effect Sept 1 - May 31 and the $1,000 fine if caught without chains. The pay isn't that great to fork out 1K!