1 trash truck to Rock Falls IL (Monday)

... spending the night at home

It's the weekend and we had plans for both days so no work. Then I looked closer and both plans are for Saturday so we can leave Sunday. I email dispatch but they do not reply so we will wait and leave out Monday. We had thought and talked about leaving out Sunday but ... we don't know what hours we can pick up, and really nothing can be down if there is an issue which is fairly common on these. And these need to be weighed, but if overweight there is no one to adjust the weight. So we wait.

When I stopped and picked up my paperwork there were 14 sets of paperwork waiting to be picked up. Plus another set of paperwork in the bus in the lot so lots of work. There were also five trucks in the lot waiting to head out. Someone else had picked those up.

Saturday we went both to a Cheese Curd Festival and a birthday party so plenty of food. That left nothing for Sunday but be ready for Monday.

We have time to get to the drop if we leave at our 'normal time' but we've talked about leaving earlier. Another plus of waiting until Monday to head out is that gives dispatch all day Monday to put out a good trip heading back to MN. If we had left out Sunday, we would deliver first thing on Monday and with nothing new on the loadboard we would just head back home.

Shortly after I woke up on Sunday AM, I get a FaceBook message from someone wanting me to call them. New driver, first breakdown, I think they were panicking. So I called and could only tell them what was likely to happen. With our major shippers we know <> the routine as we know who pays and for what and how. This is a used unit going to a private party and now they no longer want it because it has already broken down before it gets to them. Even without that, on used units it's an issue of who is going to pay for what. One of the reasons I didn't like taking those.

Loadboard

US - 126

IA - 0

MN - 4

WI - 0