Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Slept til 9:00 am, lol.  I woke up at 5: 00 am and said no no no no noooo, we aren't doing this.  Went back to sleep and 4 hours later I was like, what?  Uhh, got my @$$ out of bed, showered and then drove to the Whataburger for breakfast.

Well, I tried to go inside - I can't park in the online ordering spots they had set up - they are still not allowing anyone inside the store. For whatever reason, Brownsville went well beyond any state measures that were ordered and a lot of local shops are still full bore with it, even tho Texas is opening up. 

Well, I was just going to leave and wait until later for lunch, but a lady came out and said is that your truck over there? Uhh yea?  Well I will take your order here.  Trust me, I wasn't going to raise a stink about them not serving truckers.  Wasn't in the mood for that and not worth the hassle.  It was reported widely of truckers being refused service at the beginning of this virus nonsense. 

So, it was actually pretty cool that they recognized my profession and went out of their way to serve me.  I would have given the lady a tip - but she wouldn't take it. 

Back to the yard, I only sat there an hour before an empty came in. Amazing! It was 11:00 am and there are already bringing an empty into the yard.  I got hooked up, checked the entire trailer out before logging on to the drive clock - if there's something wrong you don't want to waste clock time getting it fixed, it could literally take hours.  Manager was elated. You get to come home! He knows full well I'll gladly wait down there to get that pay, but yes, I was feeling good and ready to drive.  I was leaving the yard and yet another empty came in - I called another driver down there, there's an empty pulling in. He was next in line. 

Houston - I hit there at 5:00 pm.  Yeah, worst time during a weekday.  Busy, but nothing like it normally is, virus must still have people sitting at home - or worse - no job at all. 

I could have driven many more hours after I got back to the yard lol. I was just wide awake, feeling good, let's go!  Send me back to Brownsville! OHHHH, Mapleton is coming back up!  I dunno exactly when, but it's been reported that they are going to start - slow tho.  Heck they may have already sent someone up there. 

Well I'm home, It's late lol.  Almost 1:00 am.  And about time to go to bed, but this Borg episode on Star Trek Next Generation? I'm going to finish watching it. 

 Friday late-morning Typical morning when there is no work.  It was, I should say, until the new guy called.  "There's nothing wron...