Sunday, February 12, 2012

Good evening from outside the Dallas Compound..........

Talk about a wasted day.....another half day of driving!  I arrived at the terminal for my 11 AM drop to only find out that my next load would not be here until 6:15 tonight.  And.....my clock is up at 7!

Not only that, since the terminal is "no idle", I requested a voucher for a room (the terminal has a motel) and I was denied as the dispatcher did not have permission to do so!  He told me to go to a truck stop and idle as needed!  Not only that, he found out my trailer had arrived at 5:30 and told me to take it to the closest truck stop.   HUH??????  By the time I hooked up, did my paperwork and headed out of the terminal, I would have only 30 minutes before I needed to park.

I notifed planning via the qualcom that the trailer would be picked up at 5 AM and be delivered a day late as it is 10 hours to the drop and I have only 7.5 hours on my 70 tomorrow.

Yuma has never seemed so far away!

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