Sea to shining sea in 48 hours

Well, got out of Wisconsin okay and trucked it on down to Atlanta, Georgia without much adoo.  Our next load was at the docks in Atlanta (actually Garden Park, GA) headed to LA.  Yup, another LA trip to land of the fruit and nuts!  Only this was a “hot” load… meaning don’t spare the fuel, hammer down, run as hard as you can to get there because there is ZERO (0, nill, null, noting, nada) time on this load… it’s already been sitting for 15 hours and MUST be there by 0900 on the 6th or there’ll be hell to pay!

So we blasted across I20 through Georgia, Alabama, Luisana, Mississippi, and Texas to the I10 across New Mexico, Arizona and into California… arivving at the 90 dead on time… only to be told it WASN’T 0900…it was 1900 hours!!  The shipper screwed up and missed the “1” in the time…dumb-asses!

So we sat around in LA all day today, hit the local truck stop for a decent sit-down meal (BTW our fridge died…those college style small fridges just can’t handle the rough roads in a truck!), did the shower thing, refueled and I pulled into the 90 at 1830… got unloaded in about 45 minutes and then headed to our next assignment.

LAX

Let me tell you…when you hear horror stories of the 405, and the 605… add to those the 110 and the 105, they’re JUST as bad, if not 10000000000000000 times worse in a truck!!

Manged to get in here, drop our trailer and backed into the one we’re taking… to Dallas / Fort Worth, due Saturday (the dispatch says “NO MORE THAN 30 HOURS FROM DEPARTURE”)

By the way… if you ever wonder who’s the worst truck drivers out here… it’s not Schneider, it’s not even really Swift… it’s FedEx drivers that drive the fastest, balls-to-the-walls.  I know…I’ve seen their “training grounds” at LAX!!!