Yes....you suck at updating this thread!! The only reason I come here is to check on you and the Arrow thread...At least he updates!!

tootie

 

Thanks. Glad you are enjoying school thus far. I envy you going to MATS

 

It's a deal!

 

Nice pics.....again, I envy you going there. Maybe I'll be able to make next year.

 

I suck because I am trying to be just like you when I grow up......:lol:

 

Yeah I know....I get real lazy these days in updating. With that said, and for YOU only I'm gonna update.

 

Here's the latest and greatest in my adventures........

In my last update I mentioned how I got lucky with a couple of good paying LTL's out of Orlando, FL and Humboldt, IL. The first one dropped at the FMC plant just off of I-80 in Green River, WY. That was the first and LAST time I will ever go there. Those people have to be some of the most rude and angry people I've had to deal with in a long time. On my way there, I hit some pretty crappy weather and came across what would eventually be the 1st of several road closures due to severe weather. As I was making my way there, I-80 in NE was closed at 59mm to the NE/WY state line and from the state line to Rawlings, WY. Once the roads were re-opened, I managed to make it to Green River. The winds were blowing crazy hard!! There were a couple of vans blown over along the way hence the main reason they shut the roads down.

The 2nd and final drop was in West Jordan, UT. I made it down into the valley and to my customer just before they shut down I-80 & I-84. After unloading I bounced over to the TA in Tooele for the night. The following morning I had an agent call me and offer me a load from Twin Falls, ID to Mt. Vernon, TX. It was just an O.K. paying load and normally I would have turned it down, but I needed to head towards the house so I can sign my tax returns and pick up my TWIC card.

Once again I came across several road closures as the area got slammed with what they were saying was the worst snow/ice storms in years. I had to change my routing in order to keep moving and ended up adding about 80 additional miles total. I hate going out of route but that was not too bad considering all the closures and what not and I still managed to deliver my load on time Monday morning.

Tuesday morning I bounced over to New Boston, TX and picked up a load of lumber heading to San Antonio. I rarely haul lumber, (in fact the last time I did I was leased onto Davis) beacuse they almost always try to load you heavy and it usually doesn't pay crap. This one though was not too heavy and paid half way decent not to mention it got me right to the house.

I'll spend at least the next couple of days here taking care of business and trying to relax then it's back out there.

 

Thank You!! Oh do I remember....too vividly I may add....the snow storms across WY!! Why people even live there in the winter is beyond me!! We NEVER took any loads to WY cause getting out is usually really hard and dont pay squat. Sounds like it worked out for you though. Enjoy your time off and post when you are back!!

 

I think I passed you on US 90 in Castroville not long ago. You were pulled over onto the shouder, maybe at Sonic or McDonalds on Saturday. This was when I was still running the Martial Arts School. I should have stopped just to see, but I was in a hurry to get back up to Austin. Or maybe it wasn't you at all.

Probably would have been, almost three months ago now.

 

Nope, that wasn't me.