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As for your trip, i still think you should have come East. You know for sure there will be loads out of IA and IL on Monday, and the rates will prob make them pay just as good as the loads out of CA. For your sake tho, i hope you catch a break sometime, you deserve it man. Keep up the log as it IS very fun hearing your stories and you got a gift at telling them. My version would be more like " I picked up my tank, I drove down the road, 4-wheelers pissed me off, I dropped my trailer off" |
Don't get discouraged early, Monday is not the best day for freight, and from experience most CA freight comes in after noon and loads next AM. Check the weather before you go over Donner, and have your ducks in a row for the Truckee scale.
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I discovered CAD now has a Blog section. I might start a permanent thread there after this trip. |
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I have been to Brampton ON and delivered, reloaded in Detroit and delivered in Lone Star TX, reloaded in Houston and now I am camped at the Flying J on I-75, north of Tampa FL, waiting to deliver tomorrow evening in Lakeland FL. All since you picked that load up to Golconda.
I am at $7,770 (line + fsc) on 4135 actual miles, before demurage, intransit heat and steam service fees, fax service fees, out of route mileage, border crossing fees, delay of dispatch, and pump charges. Once those are added....I will be glad I wasn't dragging a deck around. Not blazing money for 11 days work....but not bad either. |
Winnemucca has a well-known Basque community. Next time, skip the Pizza Hut and pop into one of their dinner houses.
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I don't gamble but tomorrow's my birthday... So I decided to act on the Steel Cowboy's tip... An inspection inside my thin wallet showed I had 3 twenties and 5 singles.. I figured I can afford to lose 20 bucks. So I went inside the truck stop and got me a cup of tea. Then I walked around the casino till I was sure I found the machines the Cowboy wrote about. The casino has quite a few 'double diamonds' but most are 25 cents a play... I found a 'triple diamond' machine at $1 a play and the unit numbers on the front added to '10' (the day of my birthday). So as far as I was concerned, this was the one!
I slipped in a crispy twenty-dollar bill and started playing single coins ($1 per play). Coin 20 Loss Coin 19 Loss Coin 18 Loss Coin 17 Loss Coin 16 Loss Coin 15 Loss Coin 14 Loss Coin 13 Loss Coin 12 Loss Coin 11 Loss Coin 10 Loss Coin 9 Loss Coin 8 Loss Coin 7 Loss Coin 6 Loss Coin 5 Loss Coin 4 ................ With only $4 left inside the machine, I was totally prepared to finish the play and go back to the truck. But when I pressed "play" all of a sudden I heard music and the numbers on the Credit window started rolling up. Each time they went up, a ding sounded. I turned around but no one seemed to pay any attention. Getting a bit excited (Have I really won something?) I looked at the Rule board trying to figure out what the maximum win is - and all this time the electronic numbers in the Window kept rolling up. 50 ... 100 ... 150 .. 200 ... 250 ... 300... All right! ... They stopped only at 364! I won 364 bucks! I pressed the Cash-Out button and huge coins started rolling out into the bay. They kept rolling out for 5 minutes making quite a racket. Finally the din stopped and I loaded the 2-inch coins into my hat and went to look for a cashier's office. When I found it some old gal lingering nearby offered to help me. She had plastic bowls in her hand. "Let's put them in these, this way it'll be easier for the cashier to count the coins," she said. I got suspicious so I asked her, "Do you work here?" The woman became fidgety and started looking for her badge... She finally got down to Layer 3 in her clothes and there was an official looking casino employee badge with her name. So I figured I can trust her with my 364 bucks. I started loading the huge coins into the plastic bowls and the woman said, "Oh... I thought they were quarters...". She disappeared again and came back with some red plastic containers that had slots for these particular size coins. Each container had 5 slots and each slot could hold 20 one-dollar coins. So, one container equals $100. We loaded 3.5 containers, took it to the window, where I gave the lady a $1 coin for the help and I walked away with my $363 win. I think this is the biggest win I ever had at a casino. I know some of you guys would probably have kept playing till they lost everything .... but with 40 bucks left in my wallet I didn't want to risk losing 363 bucks. I'm quite happy with what I've got: it's a decent birthday present. Tracer out :) |
Told you buddy.... those $1 machines hardly get played. Gald i could help in making your birthday a good one!!!!
BTW, I went to the casino boat here at home tonight and won $275 for only 20min of play at the 3-card poker tables. I am just lucky I guess as my GF lost my other $100 at the blackjack table LOL |
OMG that is so funny. $364 without even turning a wheel. You need more loads to NV!
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