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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Sleep is highly overated

The longest day of my trucking career is finally over. Yesterday I finally got rid of the last of the load that just would not die. I returned to the same truck stop I had been at for the last three days and my parking space was still there! I call it my space because even though I had been there for three days I had been in and out several times each time returning to find the same space empty and waiting for me. I wasn't there long this time though. As soon as I back in, the all too familiar beep of the QualComm summoned my attention. One of my old dispatchers asking me if I could repower a load for him. As I'm checking the map against my log book to see if I have enough hours available to cover the distance required, in the time required, I hear another beep... He assigned the load to me! Well thanks for waiting a whole three minutes before you made up my mind for me. This did NOT make me happy. We are under a forced dispatch at SRT and once a load is assigned to you it's almost impossible to get out of it. So rather than make a lot of waves, I basically took one for the team... Let's hope they remember this when I need a favor!

Edited by the wife to add...
Hubby was tired and exhausted, started this post and fell asleep. He re-powered the load and got it there on time. His logbook had plenty of hours because of the "load that would not die" and all the sitting around he did, but he had to drive through the night to get the new load delivered....something he's not overly fond of doing.

He slept all day yesterday and again last night his old dispatcher asked him to repower another load into Florida (from Georgia). So he's on his way, but the dispatcher said he "owes him big time." Hubby's hoping for a nice 3000 mile run. Re-powering loads for another driver means a lot of waiting around and very few miles. He's been hanging out in the East too long, he needs a nice long load to the West coast!

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