1 rental truck to Shakopee MN (delivered)
1 rental truck to Shakopee MN
... spending the night at Worthington MN
Rolling after 7 AM, to the shipper at 8 AM. This time I know the routine so the shipper did not escort me to the truck. When we pulled off the tar road, we met one of the trucks leaving. One of our drivers.
1st stop was the shipper. All works, truck full of fuel again.
I call the trash truck dispatcher and get all the info on the Omaha trucks that have been sitting there a few days. They pay even more than I thought and have larger fuel tanks, so more fuel on board. And they are not cab overs, that will be a nice change. BUT as usual, I do not commit until I have dropped this one. Always hoping something even better will come up.
Again today, dispatch calls with a question once I am rolling so I need to pull over and call him back. At this point today, BB is still behind me.
2nd stop is the drop. First I ask if they are open Saturday, they are. They are also open half a day on Sunday. This time I do get both Bills of Lading stamped. When I am parked, I look at my phone ...
BB IS AN HOUR BEHIND ME ???
She took a wrong turn :(
It's windy and chilly today so I walk to find a place to hide for a while. I try a couple of places and then I go inside to see if there is a waiting area ... Not thinking ...
This is an Auction House. There is lots of place to sit and a cafeteria. The kitchen isn't open, they now park a food truck outside, but the tables are still inside. That is my home for the next hour.
... :(
Both Omaha trucks are gone as are the rest of these MN trips.. Nothing good on the IA RV board.
Finally BB calls, she is in the lot. I was watching but she comes in a different way than I expected. She is wound. Besides taking the wrong exit, she had a couple of other things happen on that route that wouldn't have happened on the four lane so that delayed her even more.
I had planned on call a dispatcher as soon as I got in the car to set up our next run. But BB needed to let of some steam so we did the paperwork first and then ...
The rental dispatcher calls us ... will we do one more truck from Beaver Creek? We haven't made other plans, so sure. Not sure if other trips would have paid better but this pays OK and they are asking. Not sure what happens behind the scenes but these trucks are on and off and back on the list.
So we head back once more. Instead of having an hour to spare, we are now cutting it close to get to the shipper yet tonight. Dispatch had said by 4 PM but I have talked to the shipper and they are there until 5 PM.
3rd stop is the Kwik Trip in St Peter for food and a printer. But Kwik Trip will not print anything sent to them except via Fax. Not sure where to find a fax to send them a fax ??? But we did get food. No pork sandwich today. BB got a slice of pizza and I got a chicken salad sandwich.
4th stop is the Comfort Inn in Worthington to use their printer :) Last night it only took a couple of minutes. Today the screen is froze so I shut the computer off and re-boot. Still froze. So I go to the front desk for help. They give me their email to email it to and I do.
Then BB says the computer is working so back I go. But I can't remember my password so back to the front desk. The email they have given me the first time is wrong, then I type it in the 2nd time wrong. Finally they get it and print out one of the two copies. They can't find the 2nd one and then the get a phone call. They do finally find the 2nd copy and get it printed. Thank you.
All this and they don't even know I am not a current customer. :)
Then a quick call to the shipper to confirm they will still be there at 5 PM. Yes. We go.
5th stop is the shipper, again. 4:55 and they close at 5 PM. No one in the office so I wait. I am just ready to call again when they come from another building. In about two minutes I am in and out. Whew.
We get to where the trucks are parked and the driver from this AM pulls in behind us. (I didn't ask how he got behind us when we lost an hour plus today.)
We did talk to him some. The rental dispatcher has been running him non-stop for the last five weeks. That is why very little around here has been showing up on the load list, this guy has been doing them all. Nice to know, I guess. When dispatch had called us to do one, this guy got the other two. Says he told dispatch that we could have another. He is ready to head home.
This truck is not full of fuel but I should, should be able to get to the drop with it still at 1/4 based on the last two trucks.
This one has a couple of issues. One is the right mirror control does not work. The other is that the cruise setting is off about 2-3 mph from actual speed.
6th stop is back to the Comfort Inn. Now we are a customer :) Same room tonight.
Then we headed to the Blue Line truckstop cafe. Good food. Lots of it. Too bad they were out of the two 'specials of the day' that I wanted. Swedish meatballs and chicken linguine. Instead I got meat loaf. BB got breakfast. Same thing on paper as the last time she ordered it at Perkins but way more food here. Did see one guy eating what looked like Swedish meatballs, the guy ate less than half. It was a lot of food. We did take the last of both to go.
Load board
US - 215
IA - 2/1
MN - 9
Tomorrow we drop about 10 AM and head home ... as of now anyways. BB does not want to do another of these trips if offered.
We can sit at home and hit re-fresh the rest of the day. As of now, there are still three short trash truck runs on the load board. None will pay as good as the Omaha but they are all one day trips. We will see how it goes. RV's are priority if any show up that make us money.