Where Are You....continues........

I am at an mpt rest area in OR... cooking my meal and will start planning my stops for tomorrow shortly.
Woke up at 3 am central this morning, stopped at Pilot for scale and found out I would not be able to have less than 34,000 on the drive or the rear axles.... tried to move fifth wheel but was stuck, called maintenance person at 5 am central time.. he said, "no!" can't move that fifth wheel or we will be illegal on the steers... So, took a nap till dsp arrived at office and asked her opinion. She agreed with me that I should go back to shipper and either get them to make me legal or I would not haul their load. But shipper rearranged load and despite of me being still 240 lbs over on my drive, I found out that I have a maximum of 400 lbs allowance on my front or drive axle as long as I am below 80,000 total.... and I am 79,650 lbs... Safety person faxed me a letter stating this rule just in case I have to show it to DOT...
My co. is very concerned about safety and being legal... no wonder they won the safety award in 2013... and they want to keep it this way...
So, called customer to ask about their hrs and give him my eta and he was expecting this load for Thursday... REALLY!? Not possible. From OR to TN?? He offered me $ 300.00 to be there on Friday.... I felt sorry for him... but I can't do it... I'm a solo company driver... recycling hrs, on a Peoplenet elog... DSP had told me this dlvery had not been scheduled and I was supposed to schedule the delivery with broker... But broker never returned my call... I think broker screw up.... maybe a cheap broker trying to sell the service... and poor customer will not get the product when he expected... Maybe customer should find better broker next time....

Oh well... I better go now... and start planning my stops for tomorrow, have my meal and go to bed....

 

Trexler Plaza in PA. Yep... time to git the grill out and make some supper!

 

Ford City Mall on Cicero Ave in the Windy
just hanging around till morning

 

Iowa8 gonna grab breakfast here in the am and trek on down the road a hair.

 

real nice neighborhood........

 

well I spent the day in Detroit so it is all relative

 

Kentucky.....kinda wishing I was somewhere else....

 

Howdy. I am finally able to log back in after the hack. Not much has changed. Crappy hours, worse pay and product that likes to remain in the hopper.

Sitting on the south side of Chicago, waiting to unload. Then downtown to reload.

Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary of driving.

 

Remember....don't shake anyone's hand after the game there in Kentuck-ee!

Couldn't believe it when I heard this on the news this morning......"too many fights break out after the game"........OH BROTHER!