2 trank trucks to GA (staged)

... spending the night at home

Up and rolling at our usual time. 7:30 AM. No frost on our windows, but from on some of the neighbors cars and houses.

8 AM at the office, both other drivers are already there. Only one dispatch on time and they come out to say hi as we have not met before. She has now been there three months. We talk about which accounts are hers. She now does the buses, when there are some. Sounds like there should be 60 foot buses for Canada before the end of the month. Maybe ... I will ride the shuttle to Crookston if I am in town.

We all pile into our car and head out. Two old timers. One has been around since we were at the old location but we must not have run together much. We also gave him a ride back from Duluth last year. The other driver started his first time about the time when I did, but he has had 'green card' issues a couple of times so now has a later start date.

The shipper has changed their office again. When they first changed our contact, there were four people in this office. Now there is one. And she has a stand up desk ...

We sign for all our trucks and get all our keys so we don't have to come back in unless there is an issue.

I check my Peterbilt first ... somehow it went into a 'pre-trip cycle.' Not sure if I hit a button to cause it to do that or if that is something it is set up to do automatically.

(Pre-trip cycle - the lights go from off to on, low to high, flashers, back-up lights)

As soon as I moved a few feet they went off so I could do my pre-trip.

It may be helpful for some drivers working alone but we have a 'routine.' Also doing it on 'auto' I don't know if the right blinker is turning on when I turn the left blinker on ... that has happened before on new units.

First truck has over a quarter tank of fuel so I do not fill. Sometimes I have, but not today. Company pays all fuel so makes no difference to the driver other than time. 35 miles one way from this customer. $ doesn't make it worth doing, just trying to stay active with the company.

We stage our trucks at the office and two of us head back and do it over again. My second truck is a Mack. Both going to GA. Would be a nice trip but BB can't ride with me with that carrier as she does not work for them.

They thought they might have another truck for me but that got pushed until Monday pickup. This carrier got dumped on with Dodge Center trucks also.

IA did put out a couple of good trips to CA today but not at the same time and we are going to <> stay home.

No short work for our long haul carrier today so I close my log paperwork and we call it a day.

I do call on a MN-IN truck to find out the pay. The trip is only 600 miles so we do not want to pick up today and have three nights hotels. And they are only open M-F so no weekend pickup. Money is OK, so we may call on Saturday for a Monday pickup. We do need to keep working. Just because I have had to sign up for SS doesn't mean the money starts rolling in.

Two of the trucks from KS to MN are back on the load board. BB and I could each do one and the money would be OK but that would take a lot of shuttling on both ends.

Load board

US - 130

IA -0-

MN - 13

WI -0-