EC's Going For It

[Rigjockey]

Gotta love the rail. Was set up for a pretty great day but my first load didn't arrive to the rail. It's a day behind.

Can't get a hold of anyone to change the plan to anything else. And it's already 11am.

Leave a message, if possible, set phone to do not disturb and go about your day.
My voicemail message used to be...Sorry I was unavailable when you called, leave a message and I will call you back when you're not available.
My driver manager thought it was hilarious!

 

[Electric Chicken]

Leave a message, if possible, set phone to do not disturb and go about your day.
My voicemail message used to be...Sorry I was unavailable when you called, leave a message and I will call you back when you're not available.
My driver manager thought it was hilarious!

My phone is permanently on silent and my voice mail is full on purpose.

They sound personally offended when they say "I tired to leave you a voice mail but your inbox was full" and I say "yeah I know."

 

[Rigjockey]

They sound personally offended when they say "I tired to leave you a voice mail but your inbox was full" and I say "yeah I know."

Yes, my inbox is full of messages from recruiters and headhunters looking for drivers and O/O's
See what they say about that.

 

[Electric Chicken]

They got back to me shortly after I had come inside. I ended up running directly to Richmond to pick up what was supposed to be the second leg or whatever. Doesn't pay as much when you miss a whole ass delivery but it's better than an entire day off I guess. Especially since I'm angling to work M-F again and get my weekends back.

Got down there and the chassis had NO brakes. Literally none. I pumped them down and everything. NADA. They had real solid park but no service. So I had to nope out of that one.

Fortunately there was another load directly across from it so I connected up to it to confirm that it had brakes and that it wasn't a problem with my truck all of a sudden.

Called dispatch about it and they answered and let me drag it back instead.

Doing some research and the fact that it had exactly nothing when I pulled my Jonny bar, it's probably either a blockage in the service line or a defect with the relay valve.

The brakes didn't look out of adjustment when I peeked under. They should have at least done something if it was that.

 

[Electric Chicken]

As far as today goes I got a super late start and just got back home a little bit ago.

No reason other than making the mistake of firing up YouTube before leaving, and losing all track of time. I woke up at 7am and wanted to be gone by 9am but ended up leaving at 1pm.

Trafficularly, it actually worked out pretty much perfect for what I was doing. Only minimal delays over on 495 going toward Upper Marlboro.

I'm gonna need a new windshield before spending much more time at night like that though. Probably new side glass as well.

 

[Mike]

Trafficularly,

I am proud to announce you as the winner of the internet today. I will be sending in a proposal to have this officially added to the dictionary and Scrabble.

 

[Duck]

My phone is permanently on silent and my voice mail is full on purpose.

They sound personally offended when they say "I tired to leave you a voice mail but your inbox was full" and I say "yeah I know."

Mine has been full since 2005.

On purpose.

Why make me call & press 1 for English and all that shit to check a voice message when 99% of them are from telemarketers, when they can just send a damn text?

 

[Electric Chicken]

So I had the perfect load today. It was so good I'm working on saving 2 and a half hours of dashcam footage as a memento.

It was 32k BOL weight. But that's not all. It was perfectly loaded. My drives showed 50PSI. When I scaled a slightly overweight a while back it showed 65k or so.

Thats still not all. The trailer was dead straight pulling. No dog leg like many of these POS we have. Straight as a freaking arrow.

So yeah. Despite being spring suspension it was sooooo smooth. And soooo chill. None of this sawing the wheel BS and no repetitive bouncing. Even the section of 81 that's currently torn up to be repaved felt smooth.

I also got started pretty late (pushing into nocturnal again) so it was mostly after 8pm.

Trucking was gravy for the first time in a while.

Maybe I'll replace my glass and run night again on the regular. It seems to be my natural setting.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I am proud to announce you as the winner of the internet today. I will be sending in a proposal to have this officially added to the dictionary and Scrabble.

What can I say, I'm Grammarous.

 

[Rigjockey]

So I had the perfect load today. It was so good I'm working on saving 2 and a half hours of dashcam footage as a memento.

It was 32k BOL weight. But that's not all. It was perfectly loaded. My drives showed 50PSI. When I scaled a slightly overweight a while back it showed 65k or so.

Thats still not all. The trailer was dead straight pulling. No dog leg like many of these POS we have. Straight as a freaking arrow.

So yeah. Despite being spring suspension it was sooooo smooth. And soooo chill. None of this sawing the wheel BS and no repetitive bouncing. Even the section of 81 that's currently torn up to be repaved felt smooth.

I also got started pretty late (pushing into nocturnal again) so it was mostly after 8pm.

Trucking was gravy for the first time in a while.

Maybe I'll replace my glass and run night again on the regular. It seems to be my natural setting.

Some days the trucking Gods smile down upon thee and say go forth son for this is your day!

 

[Electric Chicken]

Some days the trucking Gods smile down upon thee and say go forth son for this is your day!

Haha for real. It was so amazing. The downside is it makes me hate the shitty ones even more. Which, sadly, is most.

 

[Electric Chicken]

After tonight I'm considering a full switch to evening/nights. The company is leaning heavily on 2 customers and unfortunately the one is in Richmond VA which means stop and go misery if you hit it wrong.

Last night I started at around 5pm and sailed through my entire run. It was beautiful. Except the working in the dark bits.

I would also need to get my windshield replaced sooner rather than later. It's pretty speckled. Not really a problem until you have headlights coming at you.

I would have had it done already if it was just plain glass. But it's not. There's a lane keep radar that would need to be reinstalled and calibrated.