My dispatcher and I did not see "eye to eye" today and SHE knows better! She isn't messing with some kid that can be intimidated! I dropped that swap at the terminal and was given a load to take west to Wichita, Kansas.........12 hours away and due at 2 PM tomorrow. OK....let me share the math with you!
It is 1:30 in the afternoon, I have only 2.5 hours left on my clock, and it is a 12 hour trip. I used all my fingers on this one and guess what, with the hours I currently run, this load will not be arriving until 5 PM if I hid the road at 5 AM and include 2 hours for breaks/fuel. I told my dispatcher this. She stated, in all her "never drove a truck in her life" wisdom, that I showed for arrival at 11:45 AM. WHAT!?!?!?!?!?
She expected me to park at 4 PM, go to sleep at 6 PM, wake up and hit the road at 2 AM and be at the drop at 2 PM......NOT! I called her and stated that I could not go to bed at 6 PM with only being awake for 13.5 hours! I could not get the sleep required to deliver this load safely. I was told to hit the road and it would be swapped out. Which I did........and stopped an hour later to milk the few hours I had left.
I had planned on stopping here long enough to wash a load of laundry, hit the road for another 1.5 hours to log out and dry said clothes. This would have logged me out too late to deliver this load. But I think she knew I would do this and swapped me out here and here I sit, waiting for the swap that will put me back on my hours of service. And guess what, they moved the delivery to the time line that I said I could get there!
Either way, I am getting another load delivered to me, on my time and so be it! :)
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