Sunday not a fun day, lol.
I got to the plant and there was the first truck, still sitting at the rack. I noticed the line going into it was covered with white frost. Something's wrong obviously. The driver came up to my truck, introduced himself - he's new - and then proceeded to tell me the plant's ethylene pump is frozen. He'd been there for a couple of hours already. We sat there and talked for quite a while and then the third of our trucks came in. I issued a warning on text that if anyone else is coming, you might as well wait cause' its going to be hours before they get to you. Well, the 4th truck didn't heed the warning and came in a little later as well. I never saw the 5th truck, I'll guess they didn't want to sit half a day at the plant. I was already there. After almost 6 hours, they got the truck in front of me loaded and then got me loaded.
Leaving there, I got 60 miles down the road and kablaam. 1 trailer tire blew up and damaged the tire next to it. I gave up on getting to Brownsville when that happened, no way that is happening at all. It didn't take as long as I expected it to considering I was in a small town. But not that small. Small by Phoenix standards lol. Nacadogches, Texas was the place and turns out there was a truck tire shop down the road. They sent out a truck, put 2 new tires on the trailer. 2 hours gone and pouring rain. I felt sorry for the guy changing the tires but at least he had a rain coat on. It was Sunday, he wanted to go home lol.
Drove out another 400 miles before running out of hours, making it to Kingsville Texas. Slept rather well, which was nice, got the truck fired up, filled up with fuel and got down there to - no trailers. No biggies, I wasn't going to be able to make it home today anyway, not with having to drive 130 miles this morning just to finish up getting here, not to mention I'm on the 14 hour clock, starting at around 7 am, it's already noon. If it's late afternoon before they get there with trailers as is predicted, I will have very little time left on the 14 hour clock. But I'd still head out of here . Cleveland Texas is 400 miles from here and it's north of Houston. That's actually doable if a trailer shows up before 3 pm.
Anyway, it's a rainy day. No hotel since they expect trailers here later on. Still doing the diet, I have enough food to last me through tomorrow so no worries there. The Love's Travel Center I was at last night didn't have a scale. Some of them do, some of them don't. I wanted to weigh myself this morning.
And quite strange. I just tried to get on Facebook on my notebook here and it said something is wrong. I tried on Google and then Internet Explorer. Same messages. Got on my Iphone and the same thing. Facebook is down? !!! Weird. I've never seen the whole thing go crashing down. Doesn't matter, I am either going to watch a movie on free date on Directv or take a nap. I haven't decided which lol. I slept pretty good last night but a nap is always good if you expect to be driving, which I do at least a little. But this free streaming! I have access to every channel that I already get at home.
Well, nap time won! lol
Monday, November 12, 2018
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