Wright Transportation, Mobile, Al. The home I have been looking for...

Update:

The ECM shorted out. The tech said when he connected to it, the ECM kept throwing random codes and showing false information about the tractor.

So, now I'm waiting for Empire to write the estimate and get it to Wright, who is ready to pay the bill to get me rolling again. *IF* they have the right replacement ECM in stock.

 

Update 2:

Payment exchanged, new ECM installed and I'm sleeping in my 10 wheeled home tonight. The hotel room was nice, but, as they say, there's no place like home.

Gonna grab me a few hours of shuteye, then head out in the morning.

Peace and safe miles!!!!

 

Back off of a weekend with the family. Seems like I'm more busy when I'm visiting the wife and kids than when I'm on the road. And, I always seem to not get one of the 3 things I want to get done done. Oh, well.

I'm here in Sunnyvale, TX for my 10am load appt. Only to find out the shipper has me scheduled for 1pm. (sigh)

I guess I'll try to get my new antenna coax routed correctly. I had my Cobra 29 LX peaked, tuned and a mosfet installed. CB guy got it to 22w out. But I'm not getting near that now. But, this is for another thread.

Anyway, safe miles everyone.

 

It's truly nice to sit at the yard for whatever reason, and not have to listen to #####ing and griping on the patio or in the breakroom.

Cough, cough, ABILENE, cough, cough.

 

Okay, so I'm taking a reset up here at the Iowa 80. I'm waiting to get into the Trucking Museum, and wondering what happened to all the truck stops? The Iowa 80 seems to have a good balance between commercial drivers needs and 4 wheelers needs.

But, so many now seem to treat us as lesser humans, as do so many of the driving public. Where did we go wrong?

 

I got rear ended yesterday morning on I 59 in north Alabama around the 165 southbound. The car lost control after it hit me and ended up sideways in the left lane and left shoulder. I came to a safe stop on the right shoulder and watched in disbelief as the car backed up, the took off at a high rate of speed back southbound. Had to wait over 2 hours for a trooper to arrive to file the hit and run report.

Then, later yesterday, I went to pickup a loaded trailer to bring back to the yard from Pensacola. The yard jockey dropped the trailer in a rush and put the landing gear in a bind. A few weeks ago, I was goofing off and jammed my neck pretty good. So, everything came to a head yesterday.

Long story short, I'm off the road for a bit with a sore and stiff back and neck. I ended up having to call the shop to get help bringing the trailer back to the yard because I was in so much pain and discomfort while driving, and was HIGHLY unsafe.

Wright jumped right onto my issue and got another driver to bring my rig back to the yard, and gave me a ride back to the yard. And then to the clinic. They even offered to let me ride with another driver to get home for Thanksgiving.

Everyone here has offered to help me in some way or another. Genuine caring from everyone. I still can't find a logical reason to leave Wright.

Guess I'll start packing for my extended time off.

Here's wishing everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving. My prayers are with all of you, especially those who wanted to be a certain somewhere for Thanksgiving, but aren't able to for whatever reason.

From my family to yours:
Peace, love and safe miles.