Heading to ND with a mixer. ???

I got a call early looking to see what I would and wouldn't do (I thought this was on the 'wouldn't do' list.) And I found out that a dispatcher that had been with the company for <> 10 years left during the slow down / virus. I'll have to see if I can find her number, spent a lot of years working with her.

Shortly after that call I got a call from the head dispatcher saying it was my lucky day. I needed to go in for a drug test. I ended up going to the one in Hudson WI, partly to stay away from the crowds.

I got to the drug test on time, no wait to check in but once they called me in it took a while. They didn't have any of the right paperwork so they were trying to edit one that might be the closest and kept making mistakes and having to start the paperwork over. Actual test didn't take long and for once I had had time enough to drink 30+ ounces so I was good. Too many times I have had to sit there and drink gallons of water because I didn't have enough the first time. And when it is diluted like they the need to send it off to somewhere else and it takes a couple of days.

In the afternoon dispatch calls back and asks if I will take this run, it's not what I'm looking for but I want to stay active with the company.

A few minutes later the safety person calls for my availability, he hadn't gotten the message. He was still working off this AM's list.

And still later dispatch calls back to see if BB and I can run to Plymouth yet tonight or before the run in the AM. After a quick chat with BB, I called back and said no. Sounds good. Any other day we would have done it. But if we did it tonight it would be in rush hour traffic and the shipper would have gone home by the time we were done if there were any issues. And doing it in the AM, again, during rush hour. And yesterday reminded us how a 3 hour job can turn into a 7 hour job and we are up against the weekend to get the main truck delivered.

I asked where these new trucks were going and 'they didn't know.' ?? Those are the trucks I was hoping to be running this week or last weekend.

Tonight we picked up the paperwork, and I ran into the boss. Talked a few minutes. Lots of drivers out. Saw 22 cars in the drivers lot and no trucks.

Plan for tomorrow is to leave the house at about 7:30 and hopefully get to within 100 miles of the drop. Then drop on Friday and be home Friday night. That was another reason moving the two trucks before we left was not a good idea. Right now we have one motel on this coming trip. Add 4-6 hours to the day and it's a two night trip and the extra earnings go to an extra nights motel. This isn't my first trip.

IA loadboard is holding at 50+. Still some runs that would work to the northwest and southeast.

MN loadboard is still under 10 and WI is down to under 5. It looks like those WI trucks were another one shot deal.

Total loadboard is still going up. 170.