After getting the tanker unloaded and scaled out, I headed directly to the yard. It's an hour and a half drive. It is only 62 miles, but it's Arkansas, with painfully slow speed limits and lots of small towns that have even slower speed limits.  

They tried the same thing all over again.  Pathetic waste of time, if hadn't had to have gone there anyway to drop the broken trailer and pick up another one, I would have been pissed.  I'm not all that happy anyway, their fix did not, if you can't tell already, work.  The mechanic said his AC machine must be broken and not pumping out the correct amount of freon.  So get a new machine! 

Let me back up here. The AC quit altogether this morning.  I mean, at least I was getting something out of it before, sporadically but that's better than nothing.  Now? It lasts longer for cooling before the air volume starts to diminish and the air temperature starts rising, coming out of the vents.  But, it's still the same situation.  The manager promised me we could take it somewhere else if today doesn't work.  

I am scheduled to work until 2 Mondays from now, with this coming Sunday off, but not the next one.  I assume/hope this will change, I wanted more work but not this much. No, I didn't ask them for more work, I was just hoping. Go from one end of the scale to the other.  But, something always happens when they are putting this much work into the tablet. One plant or the other will shut down, it's almost inevitable.

Well what if you have to work all of that? Well, not much different than what I've done since 2 Mondays ago.  I had yesterday off but that was it.  I do like some time off here and there tho.  Basically, I figure if I work all of this, I can then tell them I need to go to AZ and sorry, I'm out of here.  What are they going to do? It's not fake, a lie or exaggeration. 

So what about getting the truck fixed? No idea, but I told them I will not be driving this truck like this.  I have 3 shops I have found local, they can call all of them and decide which one.  Or, find more, there are more than 3 truck shops in this little town, amazingly.  I'll go get the load tomorrow, deliver it Saturday but after that? We need to have an immediate plan, it's getting warm out there and I'm not interesting in driving anything that is hot inside of it.

I do wonder how long it will take to load tomorrow.  I could actually drive the truck through the small town and stop on the way back.  Stop where? Why, TYM tractors of course, in Carthage. It's a different route home but Google actually always tells me to take it even tho it takes me about 6 miles out of the way.  I am no longer being paid by the mile so mileage shouldn't be an issue.  

Yes, I just looked at satellite view of the dealer's yard, there is a huge dirt lot out front and in that pic are 2 dually pickups with what appear to be very long gooseneck trailers attached to each one.  That area should be ample big enough to fit my truck in there.  This would save me 30 miles each way of driving  and I'd like to see what they have, what kind of deal they'll give me and consider signing on the line of - eternal payments lmao.  

I just sent the dealer a message about that, make sure they're cool with it but it's obviously a huge area that I can turn around in, shouldn't be an issue. Yes, if I get one, I'm going to want them to deliver the thing to my place.  I expect Taylor will want to ride the thing, lol, she's already alluded to that. 

I haven't made my mind up, I have slowly been persuading myself to do what needs to be done and hope it all works out in the end.  Certainly, my current business bank account wouldn't hurt terribly much with a $400 payment going out of it.  The difference now is working a full time job.  If it were just business income I was living off of, I wouldn't even consider this as an option.  However, as I have stated previously, that shed payment is going away later on this year.

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So the other driver is having problems as well. Regen issue, he spent the day at a shop, who finally released him to go load.  He got to the plant and the thing was stuck below 1000 rpm.  He didn't load.  I'm supposed to load tomorrow morning, highly unlikely he will be fixed and loading before me.  

Now here's the kicker: He says he's going to load later tomorrow but will "have to unload Saturday morning".  You know, he is one of the ones that refused to change his schedule to allow for me to not have to do 2 late loads in a row.  That never materialized because the plant canceled after I loaded 2 days ago and the second late load went away. They instead scheduled me early load tomorrow and of course, Saturday.

He didn't ask me and I didn't say I was the early load on Saturday.  But I am sitting here thinking, why should he be allowed to just butt in front of me?  Especially after that?  

Anyway, it's getting late and 5:30 am comes awful early.  I hope to sleep a bit better tonight versus last night.

The forecast of thunderstorms has given way to almost nothing.  Typical of their forecasting around here.  One minute it's 90% chance of rain, the next, nothing.  

G'nite.