2 RV's heading to Greer SC (delivered)
... spending the night at Durham NC
I am sick
))) no not really ((( But it doesn't feel good to still be sitting here knowing all our profit from our first trip is disappearing and the 2nd leg trips that do show up are very close to break even trips. By tomorrow, we would have been money head to have headed home when we dropped the RV's.
Breakfast - Either biscuits or a muffin with turkey sausage, cheese and egg white, diet style. We went with the muffin and then only ate half the 'bun.' OJ was mostly water so I just had apple juice, I let the help know but didn't want to wait for them to change it.
We needed to return the rental car by 8:30 so we left the hotel to do that, it was just a couple of miles away. Then we came back and to the hotel. We just needed to change it from a one-way to another one-way. At this point we have no way of knowing where we are going so we just need to have somewhere to drop it. We have never had a problem returning a one way rental as a local, but sometimes you can not change a local to a one-way.
Back at the hotel we watch the load board.
We get a later check out
We checkout at noon to go get food at Chic-fil-A. No line, no wait. We sit in the parking lot and eat our food.
After an hour we drive to a WalMart between the hotel and the shipper to get water. I used to get my pants at WalMart but now the only style of that brand they carry are 'fat pants,' the stretchy ones that fall off if I put anything in my pockets. So I tried a different brand, a brand that I did not used to like but maybe it is now the better brand.
We sit in the WalMart parking lot for another hour.
Finally we head down the freeway another couple of miles to find a park to walk at. The park was nice enough but it seemed like we went through five miles of trailer homes to get to it.
We walked for a half an hour.
Then we watched the load board again.
Finally after 5 PM the local dispatcher finally puts out 1 pickup order from back in Shelby. There has been nothing new from where we are in two days.
There have been a few other trucks added by other dispatcher but nothing great, nothing good. Most of the trips would end up costing us money if there are any hick-ups and break even if everything goes well. So instead we decide to stay and burn more money on another nights hotel.
We try calling to order food but it goes directly to a full mailbox. So we stop and order direct. The place is across the street from the hotel but we are already in the car so we drive. El Corral, a Mexican place. We order and have our food within five minutes. It takes longer than that to drive back across the street because we can't take a left turn into the parking lot.
Back at the same Comfort Inn we were at this AM. Different room, different floor.
While we were waiting for our food, our local/home dispatcher called to see if we could leave tomorrow for TX. Sorry, we have been stuck here waiting for work. (no making either of us any money)
El Corral was good, we each ate about half of our food.
We changed our car reservation online this time so we don't need to leave the hotel to do it. But we will need to leave town by tomorrow noon if we are going to delivery and be back home by the weekend. Not sure yet what our back up plan is.
I got a strange email this afternoon. I childhood friend of one of my parents that I haven't talked to in years emailed and said they needed a favor ... Not sure I will email them back, my guess is they have been hacked.
Load board
US - 551
IA - 327/322