Good morning! Now if you all open up your maps, Eloy is less than two hours from Phoenix so that will tell you how my day went yesterday!
We were in the truck, ready to roll at 6 AM. I was expected to pick up that load in Buckeye at 6:30 AM. Planning stated that it was only 31 miles away from Yuma. Now look at those maps again fellow truckers as Buckeye is 150 miles away from Yuma. My first day back to work and they are already setting me up for failure!
I arrived at 9 AM and found my trailer, with no registration and 2 bad tires! I have only 10.5 hours total to get this load to the drop and at this moment, it is down to 7.5. It is not going to happen now! I was instructed to head to the Phoenix terminal for repairs which really caused a pissing match with dispatch, who of course, blamed all these delays on little ole me.
We arrived at 12:00 in Phoenix, took a nice long walk, a nice little nap, and a shower before our truck was ready at 5 PM. This load will not be on time for sure!
Due to rush hour traffic, it took 45 minutes to get out of the city and we stopped here for the night. They did not swap out the load so I am taking it to El Paso, 12 hours late.
On that note, get in the truck, it is time to hit the road!
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