Cheniere - has gotten even worse.  I didn't think that was possible, but how I was wrong.  Now, I get interrogated at the entrance by the security officer there. He demands to see your credentials and then wants credentials I don't have (and won't be getting).  You have your TWIC card? I show that to him.  You have your safety course card? Nope.  You don't have that? Nope. Do you have your LNG railroad commissioner card? Nope.  Why not? I felt like telling him to read the words on the side of the trailer: ETHYLENE. I'm NOT HAULING LNG.  I just shrugged my shoulders. Don't really care.

In reality, I could have just said okay, you aren't going to let me in? Let me in to turn around and I will leave. I really should have called his bluff on that, now that I think of it.  They aren't going to send away a load, they'd still get charged for the shipping and get nothing out of it. He frowned at me, well I have to make a phone call. Great, call the President, I thought, I don't care.  I'll gladly take this loaded trailer somewhere else in America where they actually want the product without all the bs. His posturing did not, of course, stop me from entering the plant.   After 10 minutes of his bs, then I'm to go to the canopy and wait for another security officer to do what? Search the truck. 

He shows up 5 minutes later and then spends another 5 minutes doing whatever in his pickup. Finally comes out and demands to see my TWIC card. I didn't bother to tell him I just showed it to the security officer, not trying to cause trouble here, but if I get sent down there again and they start all of that with me again? I'm just going to tell them if they are refusing to allow me in to deliver the load, I'll call my manager, let him know and he can hash that out with the plant managers who will very likely be giving you  a phone call : )

So, 20 minutes wasted at the second checkpoint with an authoritarian and then had to follow him to the next checkpoint.  Now I have several security officers at a guard shack asking me to do this, that and the other thing, including showing my TWIC card a THIRD TIME.  Then off into a small cubicle where there is a guy stationed to take your temperature. Back to the truck, they come out, we were wrong, you need to come in here to get your visitor pass. Yes, I knew that.  Again, didn't say that, just trying to get through all of this garbage.  In the shack, he looks me up, oh yes you've been here before. Yes, like 100 times.  I didn't try to blow up your plant those times, why on earth do you people make it so difficult for us to get in here?  

He just laughed.  I then sat at that place for over 2 hours waiting for the plant workers to come get me.  All kinds of excuses were offered why they didn't come sooner, I was getting annoyed by that time, lets' get this over with.  But I already knew that all of this bs I went through just to get into the plant would cost me getting home yesterday.  After I got out of there, I knew I was about 40 minutes short of enough on duty hours to make it back. So, I spent the night at a truckstop some 67 miles out for no more reason than these people causing all kinds of grief because - they can. 

Time to push back on that bs.  Likely plant managers don't have any real idea how they are treating truck drivers, I'd like to change that.  I told my manager today all of the bs they put you through to get in there, plus all the waiting.  He got a hold of the plant manager yesterday after I texted him again, saying I've been sitting here for hours.  It was maybe 10 or 15 minutes later that plant workers showed up - with all of their accompanying excuses.

I also told my manager that not a single driver likes this run, it drags out into 2 days, we aren't hardly paid anything for it, there needs to be some adjustments made here in the pay to at least make the time wasted more bearable.  

I have no idea when I'm going out again, but I want my truck fixed before that happens.  It's got a coolant leak somewhere and I'm tired of dealing with it.  

Home early at least. Got into the yard around 9:30 am.  Vacuuming floors currently and going to do some other stuff. I'm hoping to have tomorrow off so I can get that pond up and running.  Like, start early and have it done by mid afternoon.  I need to have the transition completely done in one day, I can't have it half and half.  It's noon now I just don't feel comfortable starting that project without an entire day to ensure that if there are any glitches I will have time to rectify them.

And Addler washed.  He smelled horrid. I have no idea what that dog got into, but it was repulsive in smelling it.  He smelled like it the other day, just got a chance to thoroughly wash the dog down. A dog that size is no small undertaking. He's a good boy tho, he just stood there and took it the whole time - he hates the water hose but he knows he has no choice when I'm telling him to stay, he gonna stay.  Lmao

Requested to wash the other dogs. Not today, thanks, that giant dog was enough.  The other dogs don't smell like he did,, either. However, Aspyn could use a thorough washing to get excess hair off of her.  Maybe use some conditioner for the lady dogs of course want to smell good lol.