1 rental truck to Shakopee MN (delivered)

... spending the night at home

No work assigned yet so no reason to set the alarm.

East coast dispatch starts at 8 AM, 7 local. I had called them starting yesterday about 2 PM and then finally got ahold of them after 5 PM.

A little after 8 AM I started calling them, seven tries before they finally picked up and got the trip lined up for me. By then it was after 10 AM. Another few hours wasted.

1st stop was three miles from our hotel. Good planning. I called ahead and they knew what it was. We got there and the first person I talked to gave me a blank look. While I was standing there, someone else walked over and knew everything and had the keys.

First time in a while ... this truck will need gas.

2nd stop is the Circle C in Brandon for fuel. I only put in 6 gallon as I have no idea how much mileage I am getting or how far the fuel in the tank will go.

But a few miles down the road I realized I would need more fuel.

3rd stop was the Kwik Trip in Windom for food and fuel. I was down to 15 miles over 'E' when I stopped. By now my fuel range was up 22 mpg. I did the math and put in what I needed to arrive without the gauge being on 'E.'

While there I got a rib sandwich. Fresh, good. Preferred over either McDonalds or Hardee's.

BB and I were not running together and she stopped at A&W a few miles up the road. I had thought about it, but I didn't want to have to stop twice ... or wait for food.

4th stop was the drop in Shakopee. Pretty quite on a Friday night. I had thought about waiting in my truck until BB messaged me that she was here. Then I figured I could get everything done and wait in the office like I have done before.

Nope ... office was closed. Now I am standing outside in the wind chill waiting. How far behind me could she be ... longer than I thought. It was cold, but I didn't get chilled to the bone.

There had been a trip from Minneapolis to Shakopee that we had thought about doing. But that was before we were delayed a couple of hours this AM. And now it is gone.

IA has been putting out trips but nothing in our range. Nothing in the 1,000 mile / two day range. And no pairs in the one day range. So we decide to head home. At one point we thought of parking and watching the load board in case they did put anything out. We didn't and they didn't. So we are home for the weekend ... as of now.

5th stop was my local dispatch office to drop off paperwork. As soon as I walked in one of the dispatchers walked out and said the other dispatcher was just asking where I was ... they now have a truck in Omaha coming back to the cities. That would have been nice if they had gotten the order ... yesterday.

Being the always nosing person I am, I drove out back to see what was sitting the the lot. Three trucks ... one with the four way flashers on. So I called dispatch, which got me the job of going and getting the keys to shut them off. Not sure the why, but the shipper had dropped that truck off. (no drivers?)

Then dispatch asked what I was doing next week, they will have local trips ... now we need to decide which pay better. There are close to a dozen rental trucks in the mid-west including one up in Bagley MN.

Load board

US - 206

IA - 37/35

MN - 7

WI - 7

It looks like there will be local work next week for as much as we want to do. So far we are planning on being in town for Thursday and Saturday. And if IA doesn't put any good trips on the board it will be longer than that. It is quarter end. The load board should hit 100 for at least a day or two.