You know you're in trouble when...

When the tow truck driver opens your door. You look at him and say: We really gotta quit meeting like this.

 

DOE
It's only 2" on the map.
We've been meaning to fix that.
Can you baby it along.
Hurry when you can.
They drive in there all the time.

 

Same card as last time?

 

You get to the barn late, find your paperwork in the gate and it says........watch that long earred red heifer ##### is crazy

 

LOL...at least they left you a note.

You know it's going to be a bad day when the foreman meets you where you turn off the highway onto the dirt and says "Jump in the pickup with me and we'll take a look before you bring the big truck in. There's a couple of steep spots but I got a Cat on one and a skidder on the other to pull you. Coming back out the skidder can yo-yo your trailer down the steep parts so it won't go too much sideways on you. Maybe you'll come back for another load. Nobody else ever has".

 

I have never received an e-mail like that.
But then, I have never sent out things requesting info on another job either.

 

I started as OTR around 2015 and I remember that just about every time that capstone was the lumper it would take an insane amount of time. I remember I had like 6 pallets once, and I waited several hours for them to unload. I went inside after about 2 hours and talked to one of the guys in the warehouse and he told me the guy went out to lunch. I asked why. His response? "The mans gotta eat!". Meanwhile I'm about to get stuck at national beef in Ontario OR for 10 hours with only a honeybun and an energy drink to my name. lmao never again.

 

I'm not gonna say whose fault that is but I think we all know.