Thursday - night

Close to bedtime, but I have a few minutes.  The whole clan is chomping at the bit for this vacation to come and get this party started! I think there are 16 people going in total, tho we are all driving separately.  Well, one of the other families may be tagging along behind us, I'm not sure. I'm not driving and the queen of the house doesn't take her time, she loves to drive and she likes speed.  She doesn't drive unsafe, especially with 3 kids in the car, I am happy to not be driving the entire trip as far as I know it.  I don't want to drive. The other guy in the house, now a truck driver, doesn't even log as many miles as I do per week. Which is crazy cause' he's OTR.

I know this because Life360 keeps track of all  your trips and gives a running total of how many miles you have driven for any given week.  

Today, coming back from Gurdon? A bit brutal. The AC is not working in the truck and it was pretty warm.   I stopped for nothing, get it over with, get back to the park and get in my vehicle with the ac blasting.  I dunno about doing these next 2 loads without AC. It's going to be hot tomorrow and Saturday tho the morning are pretty nice, driving down to Lufkin won't be terrible it's coming back up that is a bit hellish.  

The thing is, I don't think they have another truck and if they do, it's going to mean going up to the yard in ElDo, switching out and  spending many hours doing it.  I may end up doing that anyway, I'm not sure what the manager has in mind, he doesn't know yet as he has informed me several times (I didn't ask, he gets testy sometimes and tho I don't have a problem getting testy right back at him, I'd rather avoid it).  One thing is for certain: that AC in that truck must be fixed. And several other issues as well.  

As for health care coverage? Yeah, I don't have any.  I don't know if I spoke about this here yet, but I misread the date when the coverage was cancelled. It wasn't the end of last month, it was the end of May!  I just thought in my mind that it was the end of last month because they didn't send me that notice about it until the 2cd of this month.   I filed a complaint with the EBSA yesterday and the lady was all over it.  This is exactly what they exist for, dealing with issues with both retirement funds and health care benefits - that you aren't getting but having money deducted from each check for.

I am paying a good deal of money for nothing.  

I heard nothing from my manager or corporate or anyone about this situation today, I suspect they aren't pleased that I filed a complaint and I don't give 2 rat's @$$es what they think. They've had ample opportunity to fix this situation - the company they are using I should say - and they haven't.  What is the holdup? No clue.  Stupidity. Incompetence.  Ignorance of their own systems.  I could take a large number of guesses, they might all be wrong.      

I feel like there is the possibility of retaliation but I am prepared for that possibility. I hope not for it would entail having to find a good lawyer and shell out some bucks for it, tho I would expect to get that all back and then some.  Dunno, but I'm not letting this go. First of all, I still have no insurance and second off, I called that company yesterday and they were dismissive.  I asked for a manager who refused to talk to me.  I was nice at the beginning of the call but when they started giving me the runaround and talking in circles, I got rather pissy about it. No one cares about this except me, the party affected. They don't care, obviously. I don't know how my company chose that company to handle all of this, but they might rethink it. 

Regardless, the ESBA has to start the process with my company which I would think has already occurred. The lady was definitely aghast after I told her all the details without any exaggeration or leaving things out.  I admitted I got upset with that company but only after they started treating me the way they did. She was on my side, at least on the phone.  

I dunno. Tomorrow is Friday and I will be making phone calls again.  As many as I need to.  I will call that company over and over and over if I have to. I will make myself such an annoyance that they will want to deal with it and get it over with to get rid of me.  I already promised them I would be doing that, I figure it's time to keep my word on that one.  

As for right now? Time for sleep.