Van Wyk Inc.

Well so ends my string of being home by saturday.....If I am lucky I will get home on saturday...I am out in FIfe WA at US Foods and out of hours...so I am parked in back...my pick up isnt til 1300 tomorrow in some big indian word that begins with a 'W' that escapes me right now....but I deliver it to hyvee in chariton....which will leave me around 7-9 hours left to get home...which I think will be on sunday....too bad though...cause I wanted to do some work on my Pickup...I have to replace the heater core (on a dodge ram of all things) and fix a door handle...the parts store isn't open late enough where I have my shiney new core waiting on me to return...(hopefully they don't send it back )....

 

Are you going to Stemilt in Wenatchee by any chance? If so they're hit and miss if they load you in a timely manner.

 

yep...@ stemlit now...picking up at both locations...the main place sent me down the road first...cause they are ready for me....then I got to go back to the main plant.......I grabbed a $75 cash advance supposedly to pay because I don't have a TWIC...but no one has asked for it yet...hmmmm...

the reason I left Seattle so early was I wanted to beat traffic and the moutain passes had some serious snow coming down on them...and I really didn't feel like chaining...(and the fact I dont have bungees)...so now I sit



...the first warehouse was on the ball got me in and out...the second...well...Im betting Ill get loaded with 1 hour of my 14 left...just guessing....

 

So had my first chaining experience......on US2 the guy ahead of me got stuck and killed my momentum so in turn I got stuck....I backed her down a little bit since there was no one behind me...I tried wrestling with the double chain set and gave up quickly...just put 2 singles on the front drives (I also had no bungees so I had to get them super tight) then helped the other driver with his.....went about 30 miles until the roads cleared at lower elevation....took them off rehung them all jacked up...and hammered down...until I encountered fog so thick I could hardly see the end of my hood..much less the road...then it started mixing with snow and rain....then over lookout pass was a nice little skating rink..but managed to top it and go down without chains.....Oh BTW I got loaded really really late...but I still managed to make it to missoula and grab a shower....hopefully I can average faster than 25 tomorrow...this load is already behind schedual...its supposed to deliver saturday morning at 09...but my break won't be up til after then...so I sent a QC message as a heads up so they can get a repower arranged...

 

Picking up in front royal going to pocomoke city md, anyone know if there is overnight parking near there?

 

So much for getting to pocomoke tonite, hooked up to the trade and found a marker completely missing along with paint damage in that area, and the lite next to it out, along with half the DOT yearly inspection sticker missing. Not the trailer I would like to be dragging around at night, especially with dot cops crawling around the dc area all the time! Looks like I will be about an hour late, Cory isn't going to be pleased.

 

Hey Mic, as a rule of thumb I usually try to avoid 2 as much as possible mainly for the reasons you just stated. You're almost better off going over to Quincy then down to 90. Good to hear you made if over to Missoula. It's no real surprise to us, we are always late getting loaded out there so the RCVR understands.

 

Made it into poke city, just a few minutes after my eta, good thing I had those lights fixed! The beltway & bay bridge scales were closed, but there were still plenty of cops around yanking people over- mostly trucks. Md is definitely not a truck friendly state from my experience. Got in, told to back right into a door, receiving people were grumpy as hell but didn't waste Amy time pulling the stuff off my trailer, glad to see that but really dreading the call into waynesboro, especially when I was promised a good long Midwest load! I would love nothing more than to get away from I 95 for a while.

 

Hey Cutty, I got your PM, again I'll reply on here for everyone's benefit. Getting home weekly is no problem. Trying to hit the weekend, if that is a priority for you, is what gets tricky. Based on the 1st quarter of my second year at VW, I was on track to gross 52k, and was home every 5-10 days for 1-3 days.

Now, being in Columbus, I could see that working out great for you some weeks, screwing you others. You are not as far east, so the runs would be shorter, easier to do an out-and-back and be home for the weekend, but they won't pay as much of course. But there seems to be plenty of freight going there at least. I've covered a number of eastbound loads going to NE Ohio and the Pittsburgh area and deadheaded home.

What worries me is the back hauls. And my info could very well be out of date. You are on a bad lane for us, IMO. It sounds like you've read the thread, so you may remeber this post that best summarizes my disdain for the I-70 lane, Cincinatti, Kroger, and Kansas:

 

Thx bb for the reply, some good insight... Like wat im hearing just taking it all in and deciding.. Overall this is trucking.. But like wat I c and hear so far.. Now you do get detention pay rgt? Also when under a load and your off at the house do u constantly have to check the reefer or just set it n forget it?