Headed Home

Well yesterday was sort of a screwy day, I delivered my load to Honda on time and they gave me a another load right away. The pick up was only an hour away  and the crazy traffic of atlanta had calmed down by now. So the drive over there wasn't to bad. But when I arrived at 11:30am they told me it wouldn't be ready until 3pm. So since I drove all night I was ready for a nap, the only problem was that it was 100 degrees outside. Now they don't want us idling the truck for any extended period of time because of fuel cost blah blah blah. They do however have APU's (Auxiliary  Power Units) that are supposed to provide us with cold air in the summer and heat in the winter. For the most part the one I have works ok, but not when it's 100 degrees. So guess what I idled the truck anyway to catch me a nap lol. I'm sure I will hear something about it but when it's so hot outside what do they expect right? When I woke up from my nap I went to check in and they still hadn't even started loading they had just be "getting it ready" the whole dang time. They did start loading though shortly after I walked in. It took them another 45min to get it all loaded up, then the guy told me he would have to go get my paper work. I stood there for probably another 30min before the guy showed back up.
So I was finally ready to head on my way but sitting there all that time had killed my clocked. Luckily there was a small truck stop right up the road with a new open parking spaces so I got backed in and ready to lay down for the afternoon. I say afternoon because I had to leave back out at 1am to get up to Nashville, TN at 6am. But I'm pretty much used to that by now, just getting sleep whenever I can. They drive up to nashville was good the advantage of driving in the middle of the night is that there is no traffic on the road to get in your way. Of course that bad part is not getting enough sleep before hand and trying to stay awake, but after doing this for a while your body gets used to "being awake" when behind the wheel if that makes sense lol.
Got up to nashville right on time dropped the load and ready to head out on my next load. The only problem was there were no empty trailers to hook up to, to take to the shipper (we always have to have an empty when going to a customer). So I told dispatch and they ended up taking me off the load and again I just took a nap waiting for my next move. They finally sent me something about 2 hours ago and its about 2 hours away and 6 hours away from home. I can't legally leave until 5:45pm so that will put me getting to the shipper at around 8pm and if I can get out of there at 8:30(which would be a unlikely) that means I won't get home until like 2:30 in the morning that's IF I don't stop along the way.
This weekend should be a little better from last because from my calculations I shouldn't have to leave until early monday morning to deliver down to good ole Orangeburg, SC.
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Interesting Video

Hey everyone this is just going to be short and sweet. I was listening to the radio early this morning and they where talking about UFOs. Now I'm not a huge alien nut case but I like to listen to what other people have to say on the subject. Well they got to talking about a video that was shot in Turkey that was in HD and showed actual "aliens" inside of the ship that you can really see if you look closely. I will upload the video here and you be the judge.
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Easy Day For A Trucker

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As for today, it started really well I mean for some reason they have been giving me plenty of time to deliver loads with time to relax too. When I stopped last night I had to weigh my load which was a 44,000lbs load. For those who don't know legally we can't have over 34,000lbs on our drive tires and on the trailer axle. So I stopped at the first place I could weigh which was about 2 hours from the pick up. I also decided that I would just stop for the night since I had all the time in the world to get this thing delivered. Well I went the truck stop to the wendy's inside to get me a bite to eat. Got to the counter and placed my order only to be informed they can't accept "cards" right now. Who the heck even still carries cash around anyway. I was really hungry and really wanted something hot to eat (not just a cold ham sandwich from my fridge) so I had to go out to the dang ATM and get money out just so I could have something hot to eat. It cost me $3 extra bucks using the ATM but I felt it was worth it lol.

I woke up this morning ready to go and well rested. As I was about to pull out I remembered that in all the excitement of not being able to use my card I hadn't actually checked my weight from the scale ticket. So I did that and I was a little over on the trailer so I had to slide tandems and get that straightened out. Again I'm lucky that they have been giving me loads with a lot of cushion other wise this could have started out as a bad day because that set me back about 30min. After that thought nothing really to talk about. I had to do a little more mountain driving with that heavy load but like I've said before it is beautiful scenery. I got up here to Lexington, Ky and dropped this load at out service center and they have yet to give me another load so now all I have to do is wait.....wait....and wait some more.

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Another Day, Another Dollar

Hello and welcome back. Today wasn't really that bad of a day. I had plenty of time to goof off last night and get some sleep before I had to deliver this morning at 11am. I will say that even though mountain driving sucks when you have a heavy load (this one was 40,000lbs) because you are slow up this hills, but it is also where you can see some of the most beautiful sites on the eastern side of the country. So I got to sleep in to about 7 this morning and not be in hurry to get on the road. My GPS seemed to be locked in on the place I was going and the directions I had seemed to be straight forward. Well in my case the directions I had where not as easy as they seemed. It gave me instructions coming from the north off the interstate but I was coming south. Doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal right? Normally it isn't but the idiot that wrote this directions got it mixed up. They told me to turn left at the end of the ramp so since I was going south I did the apposite which would be to turn right. That was also what my GPS told me to do. After I made the turn off the ramp I was to make a left at the second red light. When I got to the second red light it was not the name of the road which the directions had said it was. That was when I knew that something was screwed up. Now normally in a car if you make a wrong turn and realize it you simply turn around and retrace to where you messed up, but when you are in a truck turning around is one of the hardest problems to be faced with. I've had to go 10 miles in the opposite direction before I could find somewhere to turn around. Today though I was lucky and the next street up was big enough for me to turn on and wide enough for me to pull over for a second to regroup. I must have gotten an extra dose of luck today because while trying to figure out where I was and how to get to where I needed to be I found out the street I needed to be one was 1 mile up the road at the next red light. I don't think I have ever gotten that lucky before. Well I finally got to the place and as I was about to pull into the gate, my good luck ran out! The security guard stopped me on the road and told me they had just regained power and there was 3 trucking inside waiting on dock doors and that I would have to go around the block and wait on the side of the street until 3 trucks came out. So that is what I did. Finally after about 30 min trucks began to file out and after 3 I went on in. I still had to wait for a dock door but that didn't take but about 30min as well. But when I got into the dock door I was there for about 3 hours. They had gone on lunch break about an hour after I backed in. There isn't much you can do about that expect wait. That is the entire life of a trucker "hurry up and wait". After finally getting unloaded I headed over to my next pick up which was about 10 miles away so not to bad. This place was easy to find the directions and GPS where both right. SO I got in and out of there in no time and headed up to Kentucky to drop it at our service center. Please don't forget to comment..... Also check out my site Funny Pics to get a free book about blogging

Not To Rough Of A Day

Well today wasn't really all that bad. I had to get up at a ridiculous time of 4 AM but that is to be expected every once in a while. As you know I had to leave out fairly early yesterday afternoon so I could be close enough this morning to deliver on time up in Kentucky. The place I was delivering to was a huge plant with plenty of room to make backs so it was a nice place to start out the week at. I also got a load right out of there so I didn't have to sit around waiting on one. I was sent through the gorgeous Appalachian   mountains so it was a really nice drive to day got to see things that people usually go on a vacation to get to. I hope to be able to get some pictures to post on here eventually but that is not very easily done while driving, I'll figure something out though. One thing I saw today that I did see today that kinda of made me chuckle I really wish I could have snapped a picture of this guy. There was a guy sitting on the side of the interstate which isn't uncommon you see it all the time out here, but the funny thing about this guys was that he was reading a book. Something you normally do not see them doing. The really funny thing though was the type of book he was reading. I know what you're thinking how in the world could I know what kinda of book he was reading going 65mph down the interstate. Well do you know those books that have "For Dummies" in the title? Those kind of books have a very distinguishing cover that consists of the colors yellow and black. In other words you can more times that not spot them pretty easily from a distance. This guy was obviously reading one of these books, and of course I couldn't see what the actual title was but in my mind it was "Hitchhiking For Dummies". Because this guy clearly didn't know how to do it, when I've seen other people on the side of the road they always have a sign saying where they are going or asking for money something like that. This guys must have been a newbie and needed some guidance. Well that is pretty much all I have for today so thanks for reading and I promise I am going to get more content on this page worth reading.

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Less Than 48 Hours Hometime

Welcome to my new blog I figured since I have some free time sitting around waiting to get loaded or waiting on loads period I would write about what goes on out here, and see if anyone even cares lol.

Well this past friday I was sent down to good old Sumter, South Carolina for a delivery at 8am. I was expecting while I was getting unloaded to get another load sending me home to Greenville. Well it didn't happen that way. After getting unloaded it was a good hour or so before I finally received my next load. At a quick glance it look like it was going to be awesome, I pick up less thank a mile down the road then high tail it back up to Greenville. Well upon closer reading my pick up time wasn't until 8 o'clock that night, damn. I was still optimistic though that when I arrived at the shipper that they would maybe get me loaded early. After arriving and talking to the guys on the dock they said "Looks like it's gonna be around 4 o'clock". I was pissed to say the least but what are you gonna do right? So I wait around all day playing on the computer until 4. I checked back in with them and there was a new set of guys in there obviously there had been a shift change since I had been there since 10 o'clock that morning. They informed me that it was probably going to be 8 o'clock now. More pissed but still, what are you going to do. To shorten this up I didn't get out of that place until after midnight. I got to Greenville at around 3 in the morning and eventually got to the house at around 4 in the morning. I had to leave out this afternoon to deliver this load up in Kentucky so I had less then 48 hours to freaking spend with my family before starting this all over again!!!
That is a typical weekend for a trucker.

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