Where is everyone #2!!

Was hoping to pick up my oil field pipe in Everett, WA, but the agent says the shipper is stalling. So the agent is trying to get a LTL load to GA together. Got a 3 tractors for $1.20 so far. I hope to get out of here by tomorrow.

 

Sitting in a hot parking lot in Grand Prairie, TX. Supposed to pull this big box off tomorrow afternoon, put a piece of airplane in it then load it back up, tarp it and off to Everett, WA. Then maybe I can get to the yard and get my new truck picked up. Talked to the shop last night, they're supposed to pull the regular headache rack and put a 3 door on for me before I get there.

Got all my permits this morning to get me as far as the ID-OR border on US-95. Application sent off for Oregon and Washington so hopefully I won't run into a delay in Idaho again waiting on Oregon. Idaho threw another curve ball, they changed the routing yet again, looks like I get the grand tour of the central mountains then drop down around the bottom of Boise. Got my two full trip pilots here and ready and got my additional 2 for Oregon and Washington on standby so back to the lazy-boy (top bunk) for an afternoon of mindless Dish Network since it's too darn hot to do anything outside.

 

Dillon MT on my way to Vegas for Friday morning. Decent load but reload timing/ area/ distance sucks.

 

Ontario, OR. About the only thing this new half hour break is good for is a little mid-day TTR.

 

Waiting for the wife to get home from work, then headed to the County Fair to feed my face. Unloading in the morning in Aurora, Il and then reloading for Richmond, VA. Gonna leasure my way over the weekend.

Then loading at Ft. Estus and headed back to STL

 

Sabannah River Site Jackson, SC waiting til morning to load my army truck and head home. Good thing I have a low deck height, my 117 inch tall truck turns out to be 144 inches tall, wonder how that happened? fertilizer and water? I have already ordered all 7 of my permits for overweight only since tomorrow is friday and didn't want to sit all weekend waiting for permits. Mercer agent got lucky this time and won't have to pay for a second set.

 

On my way to Mass and then back to JFK on Monday for another oversize. Maybe this will be my thing, one OD load a week from NYC, and just fly home to FL.

 

Yea, make that part of the deal. Fly you home first class non stop.

 

brookville pa at the hook loaded a "bottom dog house" aka over grown storage container out of punxsutawney pa going to Laredo tx yippie lol took all day.

when i got there there was 15 trucks there to get loaded i was suppose to get one 30ft dog house with some crap in it and 4 pallets of more crap from a drilling company who got bought out. all together 45k lbs

ok works for me then the crane guy lifts just the dog house and says it's 48Klbs by itself umm not good i can only scale 46k

talk to the broker and says dump everything out of it. if u need permits we'll pay for it...ok

me and 4 other guys including to my surprise the crane operator start chucking #### out of this thing

acording to him we lightend it up by about 2,000lbs....close enough for me

asked them which end was the heavy end as there is no motor in this thing they tell me we dont know should be about even

they pick it up put it on the trailer and someone mis measured 5 inches overhang on bottom deck....call dispatch they say dont worry about u get stopped we'll pay ticket...no problem

chain it and strap it drive here 25 miles weighed it

10,500 steer

21,920 drives

45,960 trailer !!!! #### sucks being in a spare truck with no load guages i knew she was heavy back there but not that bad gotta flip this thing around

call broker he tells me they're packing up but dont worry there will be another crane in the am i say great what time they gonna be there?

he says 10 AM.....

so in a nut shell that was my day so much for getting this thing unloaded saturday/sunday

sometimes i wonder why i still do this job blah