OK. No work but ...
Friday we are watching the load board and we see all these interesting trips. Where are they when we are running?
I think the answer to that is when we are running, we look at the load board once or so a day and then just out of IA or where we will end up. The interesting loads likely still show up. But they just aren't there the one time during the day when we look at the load board.
Selina KS to LA ... short buses. Something BB can and would drive. IF they were not going to LA and there was no other work. Some day ? Gone before end of day.
NC to MN? Gone before the end of day. Most of the good loads you have to be watching when they put the load on the load board.
Somebody needs to automate the board so we can set it to send us a message when new loads are added :) We had worked on that when I was working on software. A way for truckers to get alerts when new freight was added to the load boards they use, so I know it can be done.
BB is thinking she should be ready to drive again some time the week after her surgery, which is when I made a dentist appointment. Plan is to try to get that appointment changed on Monday. After her second appointment would be better because then we have the rest of the month to run. The way it is now, we can run Mon-Tues of that week and then Thu-Fri. Poor planning on my part.
And that is the last full week of the quarter for the local company so I usually try to run for them. Still not planning on doing the bus/shuttle runs but we could do a couple of short runs for them if BB is up to following me. The last couple we have done paid OK, well over our minimum goal. I just need to make it more clear when I say 700 miles that that is 700 miles from my house. Not 700 miles from where ever the truck is.
Friday night numbers
US - 218
IA - 69
MN - 12
WI - 4
Saturday night numbers
US - 202
IA - 57
MN - 12
WI - 4
21 - CA loads Saturday night. Many days it is zero, I don't know if I have ever seen it over 10 before. The buses do not show up on the load board ever. (AL and NY sometimes put them on the load board, but never CA) The CA runs almost always stay on the west coast, and these all do. But there are still a lot of them that are 800 to over 1,000 miles.
Chassis out of OH. We hadn't been getting them for quite a while but now there are some on the load board again. Something I don't plan on driving. Ever.