Dallas OC

I suppose it's about time for an update... been a busy week. We delivered fine at Sears in SLC and got our next w/a. We were to dead head to Green River, WY and pick up a load of Arm and Hammer products bound for Ottawa, KS. Exciting stuff.

Despite there being snow on the Wasatch Mountains ringing SLC it was pretty warm in town. We passed through Park City, UT and over the mountains to Green River and it was still shirt weather. We headed east on I80 to Rawlins, WY and it turned cold. Teresa got to see DWTS.

Wy is long and empty. Not much to see but Antelope and snow. We made it through Denver and on to Colby, KS on Tuesday and delivered in Ottawa on Wednesday. Our next w/a was to pick up a loaded trailer and take it to Sealy, TX, warmth at last.

We realized that our w/a was going to take as down I35 to Dallas so we called Teresa's Mom and Dad to meet us in Blackwell, OK for dinner. Nice to see them, course we'll be back next weekend for TAH. Seems they still like to see us and we them.

This morning we left Blackwell at 0530 planning to get to Dallas and for me to attend a spring training class and get the PM done on the truck. Then finish tomorrow.

All was going fine until they sent a computer message to relay our load and to a "load save" on another load. A "load save" is when they have committed to pick it up and for some reason the assigned driver can't make it.

So I pull in and drop the trailer and sweep/clean/hook up another trailer and head out. We're going through traffic to Saginaw, TX to pick up a load of flour that HAS to be in Houston Friday by 0900. A little tough, but so are we. When we got there we learned that the health inspector had not been there to inspect the trailer or the product. He was supposed to have been there by 0900 today. He never came. So they sent us to another flour mill a block away to pick up a different load also to Houston. I guess the load did not need to be saved all along.

In the meantime they assigned us our next w/a after unloading in Houston we were going to pick up load of potato chips destined for Maryland.

So now it 1530 and we're working the second load of flour. I get there and am informed the trailer needs to be washed out. Oh heck, we jump back in Dallas/Ft. Worth traffic and get it washed out and back to the shipper to drop the washed trailer and pick up the load.

When they assigned us the second flour load it was supposed to be in Houston by 0700 on Friday and they said "no problem" if it's a little late. Through all the mess I had calculated our arrival to be between 0900 and 1000 and entered it in the QC. Whoa Nelly, we get a message that the load can't be late and we're to drop it at the Dallas OC for someone who has hours left to run available to pick it up and deliver on time.

So that means we're not going to Houston and subsequently not going to Maryland, drat !!!

As of now, we have dropped the trailer and have no idea where we're going tomorrow. All I know is we're showered and the laundry is getting done.

As you can see, today was a mess and time consuming and very little pay for our efforts.

But we're tough.