Saturday, July 19, 2008
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
After delivering in Fredericktown, Missouri we picked up a load in Jackson, Missouri to deliver to Hazleton, Pennsylvania to a Michaels Distribution Center. We had 1005 mile to do from pickup 1:00 central Thursday and deliver 7:00 eastern Saturday morning. We did 350 miles Thursday using up all my 14 hours and 650 miles Friday. We got up at 4:00 to get to Michaels by 5:00 (6:00 Eastern). They had not given me the correct delivery number so I call Dispatch to get it and they didn’t have it either. I call several times trying to get it resolved and followed it up with Qualcomm messages with no results. Michaels would not take the load without the number. Dispatch had promised to send me the information by Qualcomm when they got it. After being persistent with calls I found that they had the information but had failed to inform me. Also each time I called I talked to a different dispatcher that didn’t know what was going on. Customer service that had resolved the problem failed to inform dispatch. Around noon I was able to drop the trailer and pick up an empty and go on the board.
It appears that I will again be sitting in Pennsylvania waiting for a load. I was here last weekend (Pennsylvania). The bright side of this is that I ran 2617 miles this week with a portion of it being Northeastern pay. I had hoped to drop early this morning and get a weekend load that would go on this weeks pay. It seems that if I unload on Saturday or late Friday that I won’t pickup till Monday. It would be good to run over the weekend but that hasn’t been my luck recently.
I went on the computer to find the local Wal-Mart and we went and did some shopping. We paid bills and mailed letter. The Wal-Mart had a mail box outside that we used. It was also a truck friendly Wal-Mart. Some are easy to get into and some are not. Also some just don’t want you there and have there no aliens allowed signs for their parking lots.
Wal-Mart Locations: http://www.priceviewer.com/walmart_locations/
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