No work, no alarm.

Last night while heading out the door, our grand daughter who lives with us, fell. So this AM we waited until she was up to find out if we needed to stay close to home. We don't.

So I called the local dispatch. The 1st dispatcher I talked to had 'just gotten off the phone' giving another driver the pickup trips that we do with the tankers. :( Then I talked to the 2nd dispatcher who does the buses. No bus. But they did have two trucks heading to the east coast.

??? I had turned down buses going to the east coast, and now they want me to do trucks going even further. The interesting thing is that the bus dispatcher is handling those trips. 1) That means she has fewer buses than the other dispatcher has trucks. 2) We haven't moved trucks out of Rice Lake for years. When I started that location was 90% of our trips.

So no work today.

Someone at the long haul company has been commenting about the great rates drivers get with the company discount. BB finally looked at it and it looks like they cost about half of what we are paying now. AND we are supposed to be able to drop them near Forest City at another companies office. That part we will have to look closer at.

But with cars being half the price, Going to the northwest and northeast now becomes an option. The problem for us is in most area's of the country, this company only has locations at airports. In some cases it would pay for us to rent a car just to get to the airport and get a cheaper car. Or if we are on our 2nd leg and BB is just riding, we could pick up a car before we need it and she could follow.

BB had

Load board

US - 408

IA - 191

MN - 8

WI - 8

Out of NC, only the two pickups going to NH are still on the load board. Out of IA the let the board run down during the day and then after close they added about 40 including one to Duluth.

Tuesday we had listened to our company meeting. Now I find out that anyone listening gets credit for a safety meeting. But they go by phone number. BB was the caller, I don't get credit. She may not either as we missed the first few minutes so we will watch to she if she gets credit.