12/03/2009

Woke up around midnight. Bungeed the load and took off. Made it down to Statesboro, GA about 6:30 and 90 minutes later was unloaded and waiting for my next destination.

Finally about 11am decided to call and see where to head next. Come back here was the response. KK so off I went. No DH or work assignment but it was the boss telling me this so all is good.

70 minutes later the qualcomm starts beeping. What is your eta, we need to schedule a physical. Physical I've only been here for 15 months and the dot cards are good for 24 months. Hmmm time to pick up the phone. Found out the person in charge of this area is out for the day so it is running behind for the GA- FL area. Also found out that the dot physical was actually for someone else. 5 minutes later work assignment comes through. Wednesday delivery for Owatonna, MN. Decision time. This is my weekend home so I can proceed to the yrad grab the load and then go home or go straight home and pick up the load Sunday. Sunday option it is.

While waiting in Statesboro, GA I ran the routing for home from there 191 miles straight up US25. Now I ran it again after driving for 75 min going in a different direction. 180 miles using every little back road I can find. Alright so off I95 I go down all the 2 bit highways I can find to make it straight home. So I'm home for the weekend.

Have a good weekend

Bookerz out

12/02/2009

By the time I got to the half point (heading out of town) the in bound side was starting to get backed up. Sweet! good timing and all that. Finishing my journey into Laurinburg, NC I got my next work assignment. Taking a load down to Statesboro, GA for a 7am delivery. Just a bit of rain on the way down but nothing impedingly heavy.

That brings my total for the week upto 4100 miles and 150.00 in detention and tarp pay. That would be fantastic if Uncle Sam didn't grab such a large chunk when the miles spike like that. Over all it will still be a nice bump right before christmas.

Got to get to sleep. Getting up at midnight to secure and drive the load down.

Have a nice day

Bookerz out

12/01/2009 --- Two days in one

Surprise .. Surprise .. Surprise

Apparently the load I was under was in fact not the load they wanted at 6am on Monday. Just another screw up in a long list of screw ups on this load. My appointment wasn't untill 11am Tuesday, but they would try to work me in. It wasn't all bad. I am so out of hours I cannot even drive down to Laurinburg, NC without taking Wednesday off some where along the line. So I in effect took my 34 hour break there and got a reset in. Now I can get down to Laurinburg, NC on Wednesday which give me the possibility to get another load that closes this week. We will see how that plays out.

Anyway I was able to take off early Tuesday morning and make it down to Centerville, MD before my time ran out. And tomorrow be down in NC around 12-1pm. The drive itself was uneventful even though the early morning clouds looked like they wanted to drop a ton of snow. Perhaps they will save that for when I'm clear of the area.

Hope to get out of the gate early enough tomorrow to avoid the Washington am rush hour. As I can't legally move till 6:30 am it is at this point even odds.

Have a good night

Bookerz out

11/29/2009

What a comedy of errors.

1. Didn't get the customs invoice from the shipper before I took off. Just signed for the paperwork without looking beyond that the shipper and consignee was correct. This was at least inpart my fault.

2. The phone numbers for working out the border crossing provided with the work assignment were incorrect.

3. The broker listed on the customs invoice provided by the shipper was incorrect.

4. It was a long holiday weekend. Not an error, but a definite contributor to the added hassle of not having the correct information.

When I got to the border the Canadian agent kindly told me to pull it off to the side and go in and see about straighting it out. Phone call after phone call still no correct answers. Finally I ended up shopping the load around to the different custom brokers in an attempt to find the correct one. Finally 3 hours later everything is cleared up and I'm free to go.

The drive was nice other than having to traverse both Toronto and Montreal in the same day. Fortunately it was Sunday and the craziness associated with both those metro areas was at a minimum. I stopped east of Toronto at a service plaza to refill my internal tank. 2 Wendy's singles, large fry and a large Barqs and I'm on the road again. Finally pulled into the consignee about 7pm.

Time to call it a night

Have a good day

Bookerz out