So I'm here at the same pilot that I was at when I posted the last post. This time, headed the other direction, BACK to Massachusetts. (I'll admit I typed the name of that state about four times before I finally spelled it right. :P ) So I picked up today out near buffalo new york. Picked up at Morton Salt, basically I picked up a load of (I thought it was going to be bags of sidewalk salt), but what it turned out to be was water softener. Then instead of being on I90 east the whole way (which was what I was expecting), schneider routed me south, then east, then north east bipassing about 200 miles of I90. Usually I prefer to stay on the major interstates like I90 but with all the snow that has been coming down, apparently the stretch of I-90 that I skipped got closed both directions because of several large accidents (sounded like pile ups). So, I guess it's good I went by schneider's routing.
So it was interesting because I got on this interstate that the pilot i'm parked at is off of, and I passed a few rest areas. Then went past an exit where I saw a large travel plaza with a large parking area for trucks. When I passed it I thought "shit I should have stopped there." The main thing tonight was, I could have easily made it to mass, but the next load wouldn't be ready until midnight, and I'd be out of hours by then, and wouldn't know where to park, so i put my eta for this one out to tomorrow morning, and then to pick up the next one that is headed towards home (for pick up around noon or earlier). Playing it safe so to speak.
Then I already have a bj load assigned for saturday when I come off of home time, and it's already loaded so when I get back towards fairless tomorrow, I'm going to keep going across into burlington, nj, pick up the next load, then head to fairless and park it for my time off. The last time I had the option to do that, I thought "oh, it'll be fine, I'll just pick it up saturday." Well then I came out saturday and instead of 450 miles, I ran 200 up to new york because they had given the assignment to a guy on friday while I was off, because they wanted to keep him rolling. So after that weekend being really bad, I messaged my driver leader and told him if it's available when I get to fairless, would it be an issue with me picking it up and parking the load in fairless for when I come back out saturday and he said that's no problem. Soooo, from now on, if I have the hours for it, I'm going to do that because the planners can't reassign a load when I have already accepted it and picked it up.
So anyway, yes another picture. This time because I'm multitasking (was doing school, but that's done for tonight, now eating and making a call about our comcast bill, while of course, getting ready to write this entry.. lol. i know, i'm UBER talented. )
So anyway, in conclusion of tonights "MOST EXCELLENT" blog entry.. (just kidding). ;) When I got parked, it wasn't snowing here. But when I came back out to the truck, it was snowing really hard, so I'm hoping *crosses fingers* that i'm not snowed in when I am trying to leave here. I would really like to make it back without any issues tomorrow. It's not a long load so hours wise I should be fine unless something happens to delay me. So, here's hoping it's smooth sailing all the way down!
So, on that note, I hope you all are well, and I will talk more again sometime soon (hopefully soon.. lol)
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