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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