Today was a :toilet: day to say the least!!!!!
I sat at the Sapp Bros. in Sidney, NE for the past day and a half bored out of my mind. Finally, it's Monday morning and I'm going to load and get the wheels turning. I bounce the 15 miles or so to Peetz, CO and right off the bat I had to go 12 miles down a Country Road made of gravel and dirt. OK, no biggie. I get to the site (wind mill job site) and sat for 5 1/2hrs before they loaded me!
I get the load tarped and start rolling back down this 12 miles gravel road. I am rolling a lot later than I had hoped for but oh well, at least I am moving. Just as I reach the highway, I get a call from the agent saying that the customer has canceled the load and for me to go back and have it unloaded.:ranting:
So I turn around and head back the 12 miles up this freaking gravel road to the job site. I explain to the crane guys what happened and they said they would unload me after they finished loaded 2 other trucks. I get my tarp rolled up and put away and all but a couple of straps off the load when a pick up shows up and a guy ask me what happened. I explain to him that the customer will not be able to receive the load until the 11th of August and therefore it has been canceled. He makes 2 phone calls and then tells me everything is good to go if I still want the load.:banghead:
By now I am just a little hot under the collar and said no thanks. I've already untarped it and the agent put it in as a "truck ordered not used". This load was NOT paying good enough to tarp, untarp, retarp, and then untarp at the final destination. I told him if he really wants me to take it, then it goes untarped period. He could not make that decision, so I told them to go ahead and take it off my deck.
So now I am sitting in Brush, CO empty and with no prospects of a load as of yet. The ONLY saving grace thus far is that I was able to take a nice shower and eat a good meal, other than that this day has SUCKED big time!!:lethimdie: