It is Wednesday morning and I am just taking it easy! I spent yesterday resting and taking a few nice walks in the pleasant but cool weather here in New Albany Mississippi. I've got dispatch directions to head back to Delhi, but I'm not going to leave until around 10 a.m. My experience has been that they won't have a load ready for me until late in the afternoon, so there is no sense in me starting my clock only to have it run out on me before I can get something profitable accomplished for the day. This is where some of my experiences help me be the kind of driver who know how to keep himself available for loads, and helps me manage my available working hours more efficiently.
I could have kept running on my re-cap hours, but I kind of had an ulterior motive in taking this break. Besides the advantages of being more flexible in the game of time management this week it will also help me to make sure I have some hours left next week when it is time to head home for the Christmas Holiday. Several times in the past I have had enough time to get my work accomplished and then I get stuck somewhere for an extra day waiting for my clock to regain some legal driving hours so that I can get home - that is very frustrating, especially if you aren't really even tired. I remember one time I made it to Carthage, TX on my way home and I had to stop and take a ten hour break there before I could drive to my house which was only about an hour and a half away! Such is the life of a Truck Driver.
I'm really looking forward to seeing my dear wife, and my daughters at Christmas.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Just Like Clockwork
That's how my day went today. Everything went off as planned and I will be emptying out my trailer at my final destination first thing in the morning when the employees at CEC Metal Processing show up at work. I am sitting in their driveway waiting to back in the door of their building. I will sleep right here tonight and I will be the first truck to get unloaded here in the morning.
My alarm went off at 5:30 this morning, and I started rolling down the highway by 6:00. I made it to my first stop in Nashville, TN at Thyssen Krupp about 10:00 A.M., was unloaded and on my way by 11:00. My next stop was General Electric in Selmer, TN - they stop receiving at this location at 2:00 P.M. I was going to be hard pressed to make it in time, but I got there at 1:52, and they were glad to see me. Once I got that portion off-loaded I began the last leg of this trip down to New Albany, MS. Arrived here about 4:00 P.M. (they close at 3:30) but my plan was to just get in here tonight so I could shut down in their parking lot for a first thing in the morning delivery.
Now, I have the option of taking a 34 hour reset of my clocks if I want to. I will have to decide that in the morning when I get unloaded. Since I was able to get here and shut down tonight, I will have one of my time periods of 1 A.M. - 5 A.M. out of the way for meeting these silly regulations. I can just take the day off tomorrow and get started back to work on Wednesday morning at 5 A.M. and I will have a fresh set of seventy hours to work with for the next eight days. That will give me a lot more flexibility in planning my days and making sure everything works out properly. I ran this whole last week on my re-cap hours which meant that each day I had to look back and see how many hours I worked eight days ago, and that was how may hours I could work for that particular day. The reset will give me more freedom to manage my time efficiently, plus I've been getting after it pretty hard, so a day off is actually sounding really good right now.
Our new Republican controlled congress just sent a ridiculously massive spending bill to our dear leader's desk, and tucked away somewhere deep in that voluminous stack of unsustainable, reckless, out of control efforts at buying off the uneducated masses votes, there is some language inserted in there that will remove the silly provision for truck drivers to have to include those two time periods of 1 A.M. - 5 A.M. in their 34 hour break. It will also eliminate having to wait 168 hours in between each reset. That will really be a big help to the American Truck Drivers. Now, if they would only see the light on how restrictive the 14 hour rule is, the American Truck Driver would be able to rest when he needs it instead of when the government's elitists think he needs it. As the rule stands now, if a truck driver feels the need to take a 2 or 3 hour nap because he's tired then it will take away from his legal driving hours. So instead of taking a break when he needs it, he just has to keep on working and driving when he is really too tired just so he doesn't lose the income. We are a highly regulated industry, and I understand the whys of that, but some of this stuff just takes a little common sense to figure out. Sadly, common sense went out of vogue back in the days of Thomas Jefferson.
My alarm went off at 5:30 this morning, and I started rolling down the highway by 6:00. I made it to my first stop in Nashville, TN at Thyssen Krupp about 10:00 A.M., was unloaded and on my way by 11:00. My next stop was General Electric in Selmer, TN - they stop receiving at this location at 2:00 P.M. I was going to be hard pressed to make it in time, but I got there at 1:52, and they were glad to see me. Once I got that portion off-loaded I began the last leg of this trip down to New Albany, MS. Arrived here about 4:00 P.M. (they close at 3:30) but my plan was to just get in here tonight so I could shut down in their parking lot for a first thing in the morning delivery.
Now, I have the option of taking a 34 hour reset of my clocks if I want to. I will have to decide that in the morning when I get unloaded. Since I was able to get here and shut down tonight, I will have one of my time periods of 1 A.M. - 5 A.M. out of the way for meeting these silly regulations. I can just take the day off tomorrow and get started back to work on Wednesday morning at 5 A.M. and I will have a fresh set of seventy hours to work with for the next eight days. That will give me a lot more flexibility in planning my days and making sure everything works out properly. I ran this whole last week on my re-cap hours which meant that each day I had to look back and see how many hours I worked eight days ago, and that was how may hours I could work for that particular day. The reset will give me more freedom to manage my time efficiently, plus I've been getting after it pretty hard, so a day off is actually sounding really good right now.
Our new Republican controlled congress just sent a ridiculously massive spending bill to our dear leader's desk, and tucked away somewhere deep in that voluminous stack of unsustainable, reckless, out of control efforts at buying off the uneducated masses votes, there is some language inserted in there that will remove the silly provision for truck drivers to have to include those two time periods of 1 A.M. - 5 A.M. in their 34 hour break. It will also eliminate having to wait 168 hours in between each reset. That will really be a big help to the American Truck Drivers. Now, if they would only see the light on how restrictive the 14 hour rule is, the American Truck Driver would be able to rest when he needs it instead of when the government's elitists think he needs it. As the rule stands now, if a truck driver feels the need to take a 2 or 3 hour nap because he's tired then it will take away from his legal driving hours. So instead of taking a break when he needs it, he just has to keep on working and driving when he is really too tired just so he doesn't lose the income. We are a highly regulated industry, and I understand the whys of that, but some of this stuff just takes a little common sense to figure out. Sadly, common sense went out of vogue back in the days of Thomas Jefferson.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
What A Difference One Day Can Make
Today I rolled out of the pleasant little town of Cressona, made my way out of the state of Pennsylvania, through Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia and landed myself at the Pilot truck stop in Dandridge, Tennessee. I drove 552 miles today and that just about puts me where I need to be to get my two stops here in Tennessee accomplished tomorrow. We will see how everything goes - there's a million ways for a glitch to develop in a truck drivers day, but having a plan and taking the steps that have proven successful in the past always help to give you a little bit of an edge over Murphy's laws.
It is amazing what a difference one day can make in your scenery when you are living like a modern day drifter. Yesterday I was looking at knee deep snow and frozen bodies of water. Today I was watching a mowing crew mowing grass along the highway in Virginia! Yesterday I was driving in a dense fog and having to take mountain roads where the "truck speed limit was 25" - Today I almost exclusively ran on Interstates under clear blue skies and will soon be back in the deep south. I don't know where I will go next, but it is quite possible that I will be running right back up into the North East.
It is amazing what a difference one day can make in your scenery when you are living like a modern day drifter. Yesterday I was looking at knee deep snow and frozen bodies of water. Today I was watching a mowing crew mowing grass along the highway in Virginia! Yesterday I was driving in a dense fog and having to take mountain roads where the "truck speed limit was 25" - Today I almost exclusively ran on Interstates under clear blue skies and will soon be back in the deep south. I don't know where I will go next, but it is quite possible that I will be running right back up into the North East.
Back in Cressona
Well, I'm sleeping in another shipper/receivers parking lot tonight. I made my way down to Cressona Pennsylvania today despite getting a difficult start through a dense fog for several hours of my early morning drive through upstate New York.
Upstate New York is filled with beautiful rural scenes of gently rolling hills and quaint little farms that have a look of days gone by about many of them. One prominent thing you see over in the Western portion of the state is vineyards. I assume that the weather and soil in this area must be conducive to the successful propagation of grapes. There are small little wineries here and there, some of them with signs advertising "free tastings". Here's a shot of some grape vines on a small farm that I passed. Of course this is winter time and the vines look dead and dried up, but come spring time these vines will burst forth with green growth and renewed life. What an annual reminder and affirmation God gives us in nature of how the power of His indestructible life can burst forth in anyone, no matter how dead and dried up their spirit may seem.
It's funny how the thought of "New York" brings up thoughts of a busy city with people hustling about to get to Broadway productions and over priced restaurants with uppity atmospheres, but for the most part the vast majority of the state of New York looks much like this.
I'm here a lot, and to be honest with you, if it weren't for the difficult winters I wouldn't mind living here at all. It is very pretty up here, and the people are always friendly. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm looking for somewhere else to live, it is just that my stereotypical opinions of New York have been shattered by my many visits to the state.
I made it into Cressona today with two minutes left on my clock for legal driving time today. Hows that for trip planning and timing? It was a beautiful drive through a mountainous area of Pennsylvania, which made the roughly 300 mile trip take much longer than it would have if I could have traveled on interstate highways. On a good day of driving on interstates I can do about 600 miles legally, but today I did about half that and was exhausted at the end of the day. The constant attention and vigilance required when commandeering a vehicle this large through two lane roads curving their way through steep mountain passes is exhausting at times, especially when you are dealing with snow, freezing rain, ice, and heavy fog. It's all in a day's work for me, and this time of year I get more than my share of stressful, yet satisfying days.
I ate some crackers and lunch meat for my meal tonight, didn't really get a lunch break - just snacked on some almonds, and started my day with two Pop Tarts while driving. This is my third day of sleeping at a customers location - I am starting to look forward to a night at a truck stop where I can get a shower and a maybe a decent meal.
I will leave here in the morning for the first leg of this trip which has it's first stop in Nashville, Tennessee. I can't quite make it that far due to the regulatory restrictions I must abide by, so that will give me the chance to find a truck stop to sleep at for my next ten hour break. From there I hope to deliver in Nashville on Monday morning, then make a second stop in Selmer, Tennessee, followed by the last leg of this trip down into New Albany Mississippi, where I hope to make it to my receiver on Monday night so that I can once again sleep in their parking lot for a Tuesday morning delivery. That allows me to turn in my paperwork for this job by the cut-off time for the week's work which will give me another week of doing over three thousand miles, which means a good solid pay-check for my efforts. This trucking career is completely performance based pay - if you can figure it all out and be willing to make the sacrifices necessary, it can really be worthwhile, but if you don't then it can really wear you down and keep you in the poor house.
This is an adventurous job, but it takes it's toll on many of the people who attempt it. I can't tell you how many truck drivers I come across that moan and groan about how it's killing them. I really enjoy what I do, but I realize how difficult it can be on someone who doesn't really understand what you have to do to succeed at this stuff. I am doubly blessed with such a wonderfully patient and gentle loving wife at home who also makes the sacrifices necessary for this to be a successful career for me. My love of this career is a drop in the bucket compared to how much I love and adore the gentle woman God so generously blessed my life with.
Upstate New York is filled with beautiful rural scenes of gently rolling hills and quaint little farms that have a look of days gone by about many of them. One prominent thing you see over in the Western portion of the state is vineyards. I assume that the weather and soil in this area must be conducive to the successful propagation of grapes. There are small little wineries here and there, some of them with signs advertising "free tastings". Here's a shot of some grape vines on a small farm that I passed. Of course this is winter time and the vines look dead and dried up, but come spring time these vines will burst forth with green growth and renewed life. What an annual reminder and affirmation God gives us in nature of how the power of His indestructible life can burst forth in anyone, no matter how dead and dried up their spirit may seem.
It's funny how the thought of "New York" brings up thoughts of a busy city with people hustling about to get to Broadway productions and over priced restaurants with uppity atmospheres, but for the most part the vast majority of the state of New York looks much like this.
I'm here a lot, and to be honest with you, if it weren't for the difficult winters I wouldn't mind living here at all. It is very pretty up here, and the people are always friendly. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm looking for somewhere else to live, it is just that my stereotypical opinions of New York have been shattered by my many visits to the state.
I made it into Cressona today with two minutes left on my clock for legal driving time today. Hows that for trip planning and timing? It was a beautiful drive through a mountainous area of Pennsylvania, which made the roughly 300 mile trip take much longer than it would have if I could have traveled on interstate highways. On a good day of driving on interstates I can do about 600 miles legally, but today I did about half that and was exhausted at the end of the day. The constant attention and vigilance required when commandeering a vehicle this large through two lane roads curving their way through steep mountain passes is exhausting at times, especially when you are dealing with snow, freezing rain, ice, and heavy fog. It's all in a day's work for me, and this time of year I get more than my share of stressful, yet satisfying days.
I ate some crackers and lunch meat for my meal tonight, didn't really get a lunch break - just snacked on some almonds, and started my day with two Pop Tarts while driving. This is my third day of sleeping at a customers location - I am starting to look forward to a night at a truck stop where I can get a shower and a maybe a decent meal.
I will leave here in the morning for the first leg of this trip which has it's first stop in Nashville, Tennessee. I can't quite make it that far due to the regulatory restrictions I must abide by, so that will give me the chance to find a truck stop to sleep at for my next ten hour break. From there I hope to deliver in Nashville on Monday morning, then make a second stop in Selmer, Tennessee, followed by the last leg of this trip down into New Albany Mississippi, where I hope to make it to my receiver on Monday night so that I can once again sleep in their parking lot for a Tuesday morning delivery. That allows me to turn in my paperwork for this job by the cut-off time for the week's work which will give me another week of doing over three thousand miles, which means a good solid pay-check for my efforts. This trucking career is completely performance based pay - if you can figure it all out and be willing to make the sacrifices necessary, it can really be worthwhile, but if you don't then it can really wear you down and keep you in the poor house.
This is an adventurous job, but it takes it's toll on many of the people who attempt it. I can't tell you how many truck drivers I come across that moan and groan about how it's killing them. I really enjoy what I do, but I realize how difficult it can be on someone who doesn't really understand what you have to do to succeed at this stuff. I am doubly blessed with such a wonderfully patient and gentle loving wife at home who also makes the sacrifices necessary for this to be a successful career for me. My love of this career is a drop in the bucket compared to how much I love and adore the gentle woman God so generously blessed my life with.
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Best Laid Plans of Mice And Men...
Well my plan didn't exactly come together like I hoped today, but I always have a back-up plan working in my mind. A truck driver has lots of time to think, unfortunately most of that time is taken up by thinking about his job. My first two stops didn't get themselves in too big a hurry to unload me, and with the weather being foul and a long ways to go to get over to North Collins New York, I quickly realized I wasn't going to make it there before they stop receiving. So I made a phone call to the plant, and the helpful gentleman on the line told me that he understood, and said if I would be there first thing in the morning, he would have someone there to unload me! That is even better! Now I don't have to rush myself through the snow, and I can still get unloaded and keep my wheels turning this weekend. I wasn't even considering asking for someone to unload me on the weekend, but he offered it up and I accepted.
This is really helpful since I already have another load to get on that is waiting on me down at Cressona Pennsylvania. So, once again I am sleeping in someones parking lot. That way I can get unloaded in the morning without driving my truck in here which allows me to not start my clock until I start rolling on to the next destination.
It was a long day - I went from Connecticut up into Massachusetts, then over into upstate New York, and all the way across the state to the Buffalo area where I ended up in North Collins. I passed just north of the Catskill mountains and a little south of the Adirondacks, it is a really pretty area of New York. The people of upstate New York are usually very friendly, they remind me of East Texans, I don't know why when you get into New York City they get such an attitude, but the people out here in the rural areas are totally different.
Just in case you are wondering what I eat when I'm camping out in these places, I will assure you that I always have plenty of food on my truck. Sometimes unexpectedly I have to operate like I am this week, or also I might get caught like I did last winter in Indiana where the interstate is closed and hundreds of trucks are parked at a truck stop for several days. I remember on about our third day there the restaurant ran out of food because no trucks were allowed to come in. It got interesting around there for a little bit. People act crazy when they don't have access to food. Tonight I had Ritz crackers with a slice of Swiss cheese, and a dollop of deviled ham with a cocktail onion nestled in the middle of it all. Delicious - and fun to create also!
You can tell I'm tired when creating snacks for my supper amuses me. I'm going to bed early tonight, and looking forward to another day tomorrow of delivering the worlds goods to the industrious folks who produce the things that the consumers want. Good Night!
This is really helpful since I already have another load to get on that is waiting on me down at Cressona Pennsylvania. So, once again I am sleeping in someones parking lot. That way I can get unloaded in the morning without driving my truck in here which allows me to not start my clock until I start rolling on to the next destination.
It was a long day - I went from Connecticut up into Massachusetts, then over into upstate New York, and all the way across the state to the Buffalo area where I ended up in North Collins. I passed just north of the Catskill mountains and a little south of the Adirondacks, it is a really pretty area of New York. The people of upstate New York are usually very friendly, they remind me of East Texans, I don't know why when you get into New York City they get such an attitude, but the people out here in the rural areas are totally different.
Just in case you are wondering what I eat when I'm camping out in these places, I will assure you that I always have plenty of food on my truck. Sometimes unexpectedly I have to operate like I am this week, or also I might get caught like I did last winter in Indiana where the interstate is closed and hundreds of trucks are parked at a truck stop for several days. I remember on about our third day there the restaurant ran out of food because no trucks were allowed to come in. It got interesting around there for a little bit. People act crazy when they don't have access to food. Tonight I had Ritz crackers with a slice of Swiss cheese, and a dollop of deviled ham with a cocktail onion nestled in the middle of it all. Delicious - and fun to create also!
You can tell I'm tired when creating snacks for my supper amuses me. I'm going to bed early tonight, and looking forward to another day tomorrow of delivering the worlds goods to the industrious folks who produce the things that the consumers want. Good Night!
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Working With A Plan
It's Thursday night and I am parked in the parking lot of my first stop in Hamden, Connecticut. I am waiting for them to show up for work in the morning so I can get their stuff off of this trailer and I can move on to my next stop in Farmington, then hopefully I can make it over to North Collins New York and get my third stop completed. That is the plan, and so far my plan for getting here on time has worked out. Here's how it unfolded: last night I left Knoxville TN around 8:30 P.M. and drove all through the night to get to "The Bandit" truck stop in Kutztown Pennsylvania by 7:30 A.M. That allowed me to get in a required ten hour break before I started for my last leg of this trip to get to this location that I am at now. My arrival time here was 9:30 P.M. which will allow me to get unloaded first thing in the morning and I will have a ten hour break in by 7:30 in the morning so that I can get started moving on to my other two destinations. Had I taken the liberty of a more comfortable stop at the nearest truck stop about forty miles from here I would have to start my clock before I even get here and then while I am getting unloaded my clock would be running and I may not have enough time to get everything done. By doing this the way I did, my clock won't start until I start rolling toward Farmington, and I will be much more efficient with the management of my legal working hours. That is how you do this stuff.
I hear many truck drivers complaining about how they can't make enough money doing this, and partially it is because they are just not willing to make the sacrifices that I do when I'm planning out a trip like this. I often sleep right on the property of my shippers and receivers, and it makes a huge difference in how much you can accomplish in a weeks worth of work.
I was in a bit of a snow storm over at Kutztown, PA, but there is no snow to be seen here at Hamden. I'm a little concerned about the journey over to North Collins, they were supposed to have 16 inches of snow today, but it is hopefully going to be sunny and clear tomorrow. If the roads are plowed between here and there it ought to be a relatively easy trip.
I don't know if you noticed how I have planned my trip with two consecutive nights of driving through the night, and then this last leg of the trip was started at about 5:30 P.M. which got me here at 9:30 P.M. thus allowing me to get in my required ten hour break before I start up tomorrow, but that also makes it all work out so that tomorrow I am working in the daytime so that I can get to each of my customers while they are open. It takes considerable planning to comply with all the regulations and meet the customers requirements also. Then when you throw in all the uncontrollable variables like weather, traffic, and road construction projects it seems any time that your plan works out right it is almost a miracle.
This was my first time to stay at the truck stop in Kutztown, but they had a surprisingly good restaurant there. It reminded me of the restaurant at the "Spaceway" truck stop in Meridian Mississippi, in that a lot of the local people eat there - that is usually a good sign. I wanted to eat lightly so I had a bowl of French Onion soup, which of course is always good on a wintry day, and a small serving of boiled cabbage. This restaurant had an extensive menu with foods that you would find in finer restaurants like Prime Rib, and sauteed scallops. But as I was looking over the sign on the wall showing their daily specials I was surprised by one of the items listed. Take a look for yourself and see if one of those items on the list sounds like something "granny" on the Beverly Hillbillies would prepare.
I wouldn't mind eating a stuffed pepper, but that stuffed pig stomach reminded me of "granny" always talking about having possum innards for supper!
I hear many truck drivers complaining about how they can't make enough money doing this, and partially it is because they are just not willing to make the sacrifices that I do when I'm planning out a trip like this. I often sleep right on the property of my shippers and receivers, and it makes a huge difference in how much you can accomplish in a weeks worth of work.
I was in a bit of a snow storm over at Kutztown, PA, but there is no snow to be seen here at Hamden. I'm a little concerned about the journey over to North Collins, they were supposed to have 16 inches of snow today, but it is hopefully going to be sunny and clear tomorrow. If the roads are plowed between here and there it ought to be a relatively easy trip.
I don't know if you noticed how I have planned my trip with two consecutive nights of driving through the night, and then this last leg of the trip was started at about 5:30 P.M. which got me here at 9:30 P.M. thus allowing me to get in my required ten hour break before I start up tomorrow, but that also makes it all work out so that tomorrow I am working in the daytime so that I can get to each of my customers while they are open. It takes considerable planning to comply with all the regulations and meet the customers requirements also. Then when you throw in all the uncontrollable variables like weather, traffic, and road construction projects it seems any time that your plan works out right it is almost a miracle.
This was my first time to stay at the truck stop in Kutztown, but they had a surprisingly good restaurant there. It reminded me of the restaurant at the "Spaceway" truck stop in Meridian Mississippi, in that a lot of the local people eat there - that is usually a good sign. I wanted to eat lightly so I had a bowl of French Onion soup, which of course is always good on a wintry day, and a small serving of boiled cabbage. This restaurant had an extensive menu with foods that you would find in finer restaurants like Prime Rib, and sauteed scallops. But as I was looking over the sign on the wall showing their daily specials I was surprised by one of the items listed. Take a look for yourself and see if one of those items on the list sounds like something "granny" on the Beverly Hillbillies would prepare.
I wouldn't mind eating a stuffed pepper, but that stuffed pig stomach reminded me of "granny" always talking about having possum innards for supper!
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Nocturnal
It's six P.M. Eastern time here in Knoxville, Tennessee where I just woke up after a good rest in my sleeper. Yesterday I waited all day at the SAPA plant in Delhi for them to get my next load ready. It is a load going to Connecticut, and upstate New York - specifically the Buffalo area (North Collins) where they are predicting 16 inches of snow for the next few days. Welcome "Old Man Winter", may your visit be shortened!
I didn't get my load until about eight o'clock Tuesday night, which means if I am going to make it on time I will have to drive for two nights straight through my legal working hours. Part of what makes it important that you get something like this done on time is the negative effect it will have on your pay. I need to get two stops unloaded in Connecticut and a third in North Collins, New York by Friday. If I don't make it to that stop in North Collins then I will be stuck up here in this land where it seems like C.S. Lewis's "White Witch" is running everything for the entire weekend, while I am waiting for them to come back to work on Monday morning to unload me. But, if I can "get er done" then I can move on to my next load which keeps my wheels turning and profitable.
I don't want to come off as sounding driven (sorry for that unintended pun), but in this job when you already are having to spend so much time away from your family, it is nice to try and make the sacrifices worth the trouble. I'm not greedy, but I do have obligations, and I need to be doing the best I can at this.
Well, I am getting out of the truck now to take a little walk around and get my blood circulating so that I can get ready for my next "all nighter" on the road. I haven't decided what time I will leave just yet, but after getting a little exercise in I will start formulating a plan of how I will roll through the night. Last night I drove from around eight P.M. to about eight A.M. I crossed the time zone, which explains how I legally drove twelve hours - I really did eleven, it just looks like twelve.
I didn't get my load until about eight o'clock Tuesday night, which means if I am going to make it on time I will have to drive for two nights straight through my legal working hours. Part of what makes it important that you get something like this done on time is the negative effect it will have on your pay. I need to get two stops unloaded in Connecticut and a third in North Collins, New York by Friday. If I don't make it to that stop in North Collins then I will be stuck up here in this land where it seems like C.S. Lewis's "White Witch" is running everything for the entire weekend, while I am waiting for them to come back to work on Monday morning to unload me. But, if I can "get er done" then I can move on to my next load which keeps my wheels turning and profitable.
I don't want to come off as sounding driven (sorry for that unintended pun), but in this job when you already are having to spend so much time away from your family, it is nice to try and make the sacrifices worth the trouble. I'm not greedy, but I do have obligations, and I need to be doing the best I can at this.
Well, I am getting out of the truck now to take a little walk around and get my blood circulating so that I can get ready for my next "all nighter" on the road. I haven't decided what time I will leave just yet, but after getting a little exercise in I will start formulating a plan of how I will roll through the night. Last night I drove from around eight P.M. to about eight A.M. I crossed the time zone, which explains how I legally drove twelve hours - I really did eleven, it just looks like twelve.
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