I got a call late Tuesday (20th) afternoon from the shipper asking if I would like to come pick up the load. I immediately said yes as the weather forecast for the Denver area was calling for the "white stuff". I got loaded and attempted to beat feet out of there. I say attempted because by the time I got rolling down the road I was just in time for rush hour traffic
As I rolled north on I-25 I hit pockets of light rain. I watched the outside temp gage closely and it was gradually dropping. Fortunately not to the freezing level. I get into WY and within a few miles on I-80 there was that "white stuff"
. It was blowing hard but not sticking to the roads so all was good. It didn't take long for everything to go from all good to crappy. About 25 miles or so east of Laramie I hit dense fog. With the outside temp down to 28 degrees, it was time to call it a day as I DON'T play in freezing fog or rain. So I shut her down in Laramie.
The next morning I got up and rolling down the road and made it to Battle Mountain, NV before shutting down for the day. This put me a 190 or so miles from my drop and would make for an easy day. On Thursday morning I was up early and rolling. I got to the customer at 7:30am local and got unloaded. Up until now I did not have a re-load lined up so I bounced to the Petro in Sparks, NV to re-group.
I checked the load board for a while and did not see anything that interested me so I decided to take care of a few things I was putting off. One being that I needed to change my inverter. My old one died on me about a week ago and I got a new one, but just never got around to installing it. This has sucked BIG TIME because it forced me to buy my morning coffee from the truck stops instead of brewing my own. Anyways, instead of just disconnecting the old one and re-connecting the new one, I wanted to change the location thus allowing me better access to it and it would shorten the length of cable needed to conned it to the batteries (the shorter the better for performance). What I thought would be a fairly quick install took me about 2hrs because I had to get under the truck and pull the cables out and re-run them to the new location. I got it done and needless to say the first thing I did was brew me a pot of coffee!!!
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As soon as I got done and was relaxing before I went to shower, I get a call from a Reno agent (Landstar) asking if I was interested in a light weight military load out of Fallon, NV going to North Island, CA (San Diego area). It picked up on Friday (23rd) and delivered on Monday and was paying 2.35 mile, I of course said yes. That was a great paying load for this area. She calls me back about 20 minutes later and said that she spoke to the logistics people there at NAS Fallon and the load just got covered.
issedoff: All I could think was "oh boy, here we go again" (read previous post to understand).
So anyways, here I am in Sparks, NV. I will be calling agents to "let them know" I'm in the area looking for a load as well as watching the load board like a hawk today in hopes to catch a load out of here before the weekend. Wish me luck!