08-08-08

Pilot Mountain West Virginia

Friday, August 08, 2008

08-08-08

We got home for a couple of days and then went back on the board. This hasn’t gone well so far. We first got a load to Laredo and then a minute later it was unassigned. That sucked but that was only the start. We then got a Con-way load in Nashville to Kernersville, North Carolina. The Con-way loads are always rushed and I don’t like waiting at the Con-way terminals. But anyway we got there and checked in early for our 5:00 load. I was told that the trailer was at dock door 75 to hook up and get weights and come in for my paper work. It was right in front of where all the trucks were staging to get out so it was a real hassle to get it out. I got it closed up, weighted, and the tandems adjusted and went in for the paper work only to find out that it was the wrong trailer. They had already given out the paper to another driver and he was out looking for the trailer that I was hooked up to. The correct trailer was already pulled away from the dock and put in the yard where you couldn’t get to it. So I went through dropping the one trailer and hooking to the next and getting it all scaled out and adjusted. Instead of an early start I got a late one. To make the time we only made on 15 minute stop in the 450 mile trip. We got there after the driver that had the trailer that I had originally hooked to and had already got a load out. We have been stuck here waiting for our next load. It is Friday so I am hoping that we get a weekend trip and I can get some miles. We only have 540 for the week.

The trip across I-40 from Tennessee to North Carolina was pretty. The mountains weren’t bad and we made pretty good time.

We got a load to Janesville, Wisconsin for a 6:00 delivery Monday. It is 875 mile trip, an easy weekend trip.