Meat, Coast-to-Coast again, and once more picking the Phat kid – 0409hrs
Sat along-side the road for about another half hour when night Monkey calls…give us a different PO number… instead of XXXX-004, try XXXX-002. Rolled back to the 01… they’re happy now, ‘cept got put back to the end of the line waiting for a door. They came and got us about an hour later and took 20 MINUTES to load us! They were slamming pallets into us so fast and hard I thought they were going to shove us off the dock… I think there were two lift operators working us as the pallets slamming in were too quick for just one!
Anyways, bailed out of Milwaukee, WI around 0130 and rolled to Gary, IN where I turned it over to co-driver. He ran us all day and passed it back to me in Kentucky and I drove it down to Hardeeville, SC where we sit about 20 miles out of the 90. Got a pre-plan picking up in Atlanta going to Riverview, CA ASAP… Dispatch wants us unloaded in the morning (they don’t open until 0800) as quick as possible as this Atlanta load needs to be there Thursday (it’s already loaded sitting in a trailer waiting).
On a related note, co-driver informed me this morning that I WON’T have my miles before he has to turn his truck in on 12/13, I’ll still be about 7k short… gave me the option of staying on until then and then trying to find another co-driver to finish my TNT, or step off of the truck next week to find one (that way he can run a CDL student through before giving up the truck and taking his 45 days vacation and getting his Cascadia after the first of the year).
So once again, I’m gonna have to slut myself out to find a co-driver to finish me up…. <sigh> I think I’ll step off next week as my odds of finding a TNT driver should be better than the two weeks before Christmas?
Saw a really bad accident about mm (mile-marker) 48 in South Carolina on I95 at the rest area I WAS going to pull into… from what I could tell a Ford Explorer was either coming into the rest area too fast, or they (for whatever reason) wandered too far to the right (fell sleep maybe?) and slammed into four or five cars parked AT the rest area then bounced into the trees between the highway and rest area. To say there wasn’t much left of the explorer is an understatement, and there were at least a half dozen ambulances and another four or five fire trucks all at the entrance to the rest area. NOT pretty at all!
That’s about all from the road…