Monday, July 27, 2020

Last post I just put up - I guess I got busy and forgot to hit the post button. I'm not in Oklahoma, lol, I'm in Brownsville now.  We aren't getting much detention pay down here, they have apparently streamlined the process - but the company will start to miss the extra pay at some point and wonder what's going on.  Cause' they make a bundle off of us sitting here doing nothing.  It's not just the drivers making money off the sitting around deal, especially when it's slow, they're bringing in revenue. 

Anyway, I came down here after the Hurricane hit land.  Like 2 days after.  So there was some rain but not hurricane grade stuff, thank God.  This yard tho.....unbelievable. Giant mud puddle. And the empty trailer is sitting in a huge pool of water and obviously the truck that pulled out from under it had - some trouble.  Like a giant pit where he spun out and left me hanging.  I have all 4 locking hubs on this truck, I hope I don't have to wait in the morning for someone to pull me out of  here. Just a waste of time.  Well, I perhaps could legitimately call it a detention since getting stuck in mud and pools of water in their yard isn't my fault?  Who knows. I'm not stuck at the moment, I just backed up to the trailer but didn't try to get underneath it - that's where the trouble may kick in. 

I'll find out in the morning. 

Meanwhile, the move from Maria's house to now "Kim's" house isn't even near completed. I had nothing to do with any of it, they didn't get the house until after I was already committed to an Oklahoma run and then the next day - today - a Brownsville run. I'm hoping a day off after I get back tomorrow - unknown and not asking.  If they give me another run, I"m taking it without hesitation.  My housewarming gift to my son and his wife for their new home is a brand new refrigerator - that's some Benjamins there - don't want debt on it, just pay it off and be done with it.  I've got some debt on other things I'm paying off, namely that generator.

Anyway, this new manager was having a cow about all the drivers sitting down here - so he went on a warpath to get empties up here on time for drivers to get out of here.  Except? No one wanted it and everyone said differently.  He figured it out, I guess, but too late.  My suggestion to the new dispatcher - who is not my manager - was to send bobtails down here to get empties so loaded trailers would have to wait.  That's what the previous manager did and kept us getting detention pay far more often than not.  We were texting back and forth until  I said that and then she disappeared lmao.

Uhh so that's that. 

Up - not too early tomorrow - 6:00 am, nothing seriously bad - get out of here and get back to the yard and go home.

I need to get to the boat shop and get the thing and take it back to the lake.  That is really pressing on me, I've spent enough money on that thing, it's time to have some fun with it!  My patience wearing thin, it's been too long and too much with it. 

Anyway, it's bedtime and I need my sleep - it's a long drive and getting longer. This Interstate ambition the state has with this entire stretch of roadway is getting old. More and more new construction opening up the entire length of the trip and more and more delays. 

Uhh, yeah, no more complaining lol. Y'all have a good night.

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