USX drivers...how's your day??

Yes, I get Home Time if I can just get there...LOL

My regular FM got the Tobyhanna load taken off me this morning, then we had a load that went all of 20 miles. Was told to drop the load and then head for home......that was almost 3 hours ago......we had headed for home, now we are sitting at the Pilot on I44 XT 275 waiting for someone to decide what to do with us........it seems that LP thinks Carthage is a suburb of St.Louis instead of being 260+ miles west.

 

Highwayman, did you run around the block a few times with that load??? You are supposed to go 200 miles before you stop...LOL

We finally made it in last night about 8:30. I'll see if I can get the story straight...LOL

We were sitting at the Pilot and get a PP to PU in Belle, MO and deliver at the Home Depot in Topeka....Messages sent back "How is this going to get me home?....Are you aware we don't have a trailer?"........They tried to send us back to our delivery to get one...."We are 20 miles away, there wasn't any there earlier, and the guard shack lady was not nice or helpful in looking for one".....so we got sent to the Drop Yard in E. St. Louis. ......20 trailers, no empties......FM sends a list of 7 that show as being there.....4 are USX dedicated (which we can't pull), 1 is loaded, 1 has the wrong number but the closest number to it is loaded, and 1 is not even there......finally got permission to grab an Arnold and off we went.....by now it is midnight, Sean is driving, and we made it almost to Cuba before we had to stop because Sean was out of hours......so we grabbed a couple hours sleep and started off again at 0515.

Get to our PU about 0630 and find out the load was cancelled yesterday....."Am now only 190 miles from home. Can I go home from here??".......Get another PP to PU there and this load was going to Laredo but we could repower it in Joplin.....Now, this is where the story gets crazy!!.......went back to the office lady (who was not a very nice one) and get told that the loaded trailer is on the lot.....go back to look and the trailer is invisible.....sent message to FM and went to sleep......2hrs later message comes back "Is this load cancelled, too?"......then "CSR says the trailer was getting loaded at 0630".....call the contact # and they don't keep track by trailer #, my pu # was wrong, so the plant manager can't help me......enlisted the yard dog whose paperwork showed that the trailer had come in, but he couldn't find it anywhere and then he came back with a paper that showed the same pu # I had and said the trailer must have left with someone else just before we got there......At this point we had been there almost 6 hours and was running out of cigarettes again so I asked if we could go 20 miles back to the truckstop.....got permission, and as we were pulling out Sean found the trailer sitting right next to us.....LOL........the trailer that had been there when we went to sleep had been replaced with our trailer and we had been up now for about an hour but nobody had seen this trailer!!!...........so we get hooked up, scaled it, and then found one tire had a big chunk of the retread gone......another 2 hrs to get the tire replaced...............At 1500 we finally hit the road, got to Joplin about 1930, swapped trailers, and came home.

Where now we shall enjoy being for the next 4 days!!!!