1 Refer to Marengo IL (Monday)
... spending the night at home
No work lined up so we are watching the load board when dispatch opens.
Mid-morning I finally call dispatch about the MN to IL trip ... and find out the RV shipper is not working today. What we see on the loadboard is all we will see this week.
Local dispatch calls about working Monday as I had said I would be available. I tell them I am NA for Monday. But that we are available for today.
BB and I decide we do not want to run the east coast trips so we call on the MN to IL trip. We get the trip. Then we call a different dispatcher about an IL to ND trip. Looks great, it is less than an hour from our drop. But ...
We have to take a 2nd leg from ND to OR. That is a deal breaker, so I don't find out how much it pays.
After I hang up, BB and I talk. The ND to OR trip may be the best thing going by Monday. But it is too early to commit to a 2nd leg.
Later when we check the load board, we find that someone has taken the ND to OR trip but not the IL to ND leg. AND ... the rental dispatchers are working. They had not updated their spread sheet all AM so we guessed that they had the day off. Now we see they have a MN to MN trip. Would have been great. But now it is mid-afternoon and we pass. So no work today.
Local dispatch never calls back for work for today.
I do call my shipper for my next trip and they don't open until 9 AM. OK, they open at 5-6 AM but they won't allow us pick up until 9 AM. That is going to make it tight for delivering in IL on Monday.
As kind of expected ... part of the IL to OR trip was taken but not the whole trip. They just wouldn't give ME the partial. The ND to OR leg is gone but now there are two ND to MO trips. But these are 'tractor's' and the other was a box truck.
The MN-MN trip that was out there was gone within the hour.
IA pulled or covered all trips before the end of the day. Not sure if the ME trips were still there or not.
So nothing new now until Monday.
Load board
US - 183
IA - 4/0
MN - 7
WI - 6
As of tonight, the IL to ND trip is still there. If it is still there Monday after we pick up, we may call on it.