What a day to be a trucker...
Dispatch sent me my pickup info last night at 4pm. It was scheduled to pickup today, but because of the winter storm coming, I called to see if I could get loaded last night. Well, if I could've been there before 4pm, they would've loaded me. So...
Left Derby, CT after loading this morning at 11:15am (arrived at 7am when they opened) heading for Morgantown, WV (~540 miles). Wellll, because of the wonderful roads, the beautiful weather and the endless stream of idiots, in 7.5hrs I managed to make it 213 miles.
I-95, I-287 and I-78 were absolutely horrible. The worst part was the plow trucks. For some unknown reason, they're throwing sand instead of salt. It's around 28f and the salt would've melted that crap. But, nooooo, they'd rather have the snow & sleet pack into a nice long stretch of ice.
What I really enjoyed was listening to the super truckers on the cb, telling people to move over because they had to go. Hmmm, wonder what they'll do about the 5billion cars (or so it seemed) that were in the road in front of them doing the same speed as the trucks, or the wall of snowplows going down the interstate at 15mph...
So, now I have to sit in this truckstop until daylight (headlight lenses are horrible on this truck) and run the rest of the way. I'm still on I-78 and Harrisburg, PA is expecting a total of 6-10" of snow through the night.
Can't wait to see what I-68 is gonna look like...
Once I get to the shop, I've got a nice list of problems on the truck that need fixed. Our shop is only there until 5pm on Saturday, and not at all on Sunday. This load delivers at 7am in Ohio, so that means, by the time I get there the shop will have roughly 5-6hrs to fix everything.
Oh ya, I love my job :major sarcasm: