1 trash truck to Minneapolis MN (delivered)

... spending the night at home

No alarm, home made breakfast.

We drop off our vacation rental car on the way to my truck and stop at the drug store on the way home so not a wasted trip. Would have been nice to have had the WI to MN leg :)

We get to the drop, the person I am sent to talk to can't do anything without a unit number. All I have is a VIN. Then the call someone else in the shop that might know ... and I commented 'Likely the right person will know all about it.'

But that person doesn't come right away so I make calls to the drop and my dispatcher. My dispatcher just tells me the unit number is on the paperwork where the VIN should be.

THEN the right person comes ... 'oh, yeah, that was the one that was towed in.' It looks like it wasn't in their system anymore because it was sold and removed. We were moving it from the selling location to the drop when it broke down but the drop hadn't signed for it yet so it was still the shippers issue.

They offered to pull it up for me so I waited. Good thing I did as it was blocked in with other units.

No issues during inspection. Haven't worked for a few days so I am out of my routine. Enough fuel to get me the five miles without the low fuel light coming on.

Brings back memories. I used to work for a few years in the area when the shop and the drop are. Things change.

No one had answered at the drop so I went to receiving door. The person who let me in was pushing a broom and that seemed to be his limit. So I headed to the front door to see if I would have better luck. Got to a side door and someone else let me in. Luckily someone who could sign was just walking past when I asked where to go.

They looked out the door, saw the truck, signed, told me where to park the truck and where to drop the keys.

I had dropped at this customer before but they used to be a mile or so away. A new truck last time with the carrier we dropped. This place is right up against the rail yards on Minneapolis so all the doors are locked. Nice place so far. A few feet away are some long abandon grain silos.

This trip was a breakdown issue and the office seemed to be having issues with it. They told me that when I accepted the trip. Then when I called this AM to get dispatched, they put this short trip back on the load board and put me on a SC to MN trip. It took a while to get paid and I ended up being paid on a different trip number than my paperwork said but the money was still good so I'm good.

The load board is active again. Yesterday they had put out 4 RV's to California but we can't go right now. Then two more later to the same location. Now today they are putting out more.

At the end of the day there is still one to CA and one to OR.

Right now we need to get through the next week to see if we are going anywhere.

Load board

US - 168

IA - 7/5

MN - 9

WI - 2