Milton, WV – 2231hrs

Greetings from Milton, WV!  We got our load yesterday, went through all those repairs and got a bunch of stuff taken care of.  Up and at it early this morning… I actually got a cup of coffee when I first woke up this morning!!  That’s a first in a number of days!!  We’ve been sleeping at shippers and rest areas, so no coffee in the morning lately.  Wasn’t this morning a treat!!!  Hit the road and rolled down here pretty uneventfully… about three hours or so, I drove all the whole time and am pretty much good to go with gears.  Every once in a great while I miss a gear, or it “growls” a bit…but certainly no grinding like I had been doing!  Whooo Hoooo!!!

We’re bedded down at the TA off I64… got some grub, got a good hot shower and am now up in my bunk finishing up the day.  We have to be up pretty early (0430) to deliver this load in the morning, and it being Monday, we will probably get a load shortly there-after.  The night and weekend dispatch (also called Fleet Managers) aren’t nearly as… “energetic” about getting loads to drivers as the regular day-shift guys are.  If I’m not mistaken the nights and weekends guys are hourly, whereas the regular day-shift FM’s are more commission based (so it’s in there best interest to keep us rolling!!).