Trip to Brownsville uneventful, thankfully. I hit Houston about the time the snippets of heavier traffic was going to begin. Eastman - which is the loading plant - took forever to get the truck weighed in. Waiting for 28 minutes type of forever. Ridiculous. They don't have any good excuses and they don't care. It just adds to the day and the rack operators give me looks when I pull up there with 30 minutes eating up the time frame. I told the dude right off - it took half an hour to get weighed in. Just to unruffle their feathers. I was still 15 minutes early, but the dude that runs that operation wants you there much earlier than that.
I can't change things I have no control over, at all and they know that. They can complain to the powers that be about the hang up in getting scaled in, I'm not doing it. I don't need to be a target at that place, it's my current livelihood.
Anyway, I'm in Brownsville and there are no empty trailers. It's a good thing I have Wednesday to back up into before vacation, because who knows when an empty will come in? Tomorrow morning? Afternoon? Mid afternoon? Evening? Completely unpredictable. But, it's worth the wait to get my detention pay and up the ante on my next paycheck.
Foregone conclusion I will be taking at least some vacation hours to buffer the loss of 5 days of work. But not too much. I'll be into Saturday and Sunday off, well possibly Friday as well (they sometimes count that for the next paycheck and they sometimes count that for 2 paychecks after that depending on - who knows what), so I really don't need to claim too many vacation hours. Maybe 15. We get paid a tad bit of money for vacation time.
I applied for and was accepted for a credit card for the business. Now that I have both LLC status and an EIN number from the state of Texas, I can apply for lines of credit. Why do I want the business to have lines of credit running? Because I will probably have to get a loan to expand the park in the future. I need to get some lines of credit going, use those lines of credit and pay them off before the 30 day period is up to begin to establish creditworthiness for the business.
It only made sense to get it started right away and Capital One - of whom I've already been a customer of for at least a decade now - was not shy to give me a line of credit starting at $2,000. Not much, albeit, but it's a starting point. I had to list my annual income as 0 - it didn't give an option for projected income so I was at honest about it. 0, lol. They did a credit check on me and that is, what I suspect, what gave me at least a foot in the door. I'll buy whatever I need that the card can cover and pay it off before 30 days and do that every month.
