Wow....I haven't seen an internet connection in 12 days. WTF. Anyway, Long story short, I've been all over the place in 12 days. Been to Texas, Colorado, California, Arizona, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, BACK to Texas.
This past weekend was a joke, though. We picked up a load coming from Illinois, bound for Laredo, TX, and point south into Mexico. Now we don't run Mexico, but we get it to within 9 miles of the border. We didn't make it. Our load was plenty on time to get there, but Werner has a fleet of daycab trucks that simply run back and forth between 2 pre-designated cities Monday thru Friday. We got a message on Friday evening that a daycab from Laredo wasn't going to be meeting a daycab from Dallas, and that we needed to meet the little whiny SOB in Buda, TX, and swap trailers so he could get home to his loving family......I'll spare my exact thoughts on the daycabbers, as most of them are rather full of expletives, and I'm trying to keep this a PG show.
SUPER long story short - we went to Dallas, got stuck there for 3 days, Greg was almost fired when he went to get his Medical card renewed because the "doctor" in Dallas is a quack, we had 2 loads assigned and then taken away, Werner fired 2 other drivers that same day for iffy medical reasoning, and we finally escaped the prison (seriously, the terminal is surrounded by a chain link fence with razor wire loops on top), and got a load to Houston. That we delivered, and headed to a Wal-Mart DC for another load.
So here I sit, in a Houston-area truck stop, awaiting the repair shop to get to us to fix an air leak on the trailer we picked up. I was really hoping to have my 275 hours completed prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, when Greg returns home yet again. Somehow I'm fairly sure that I'm going to be screwed. Again. Thanks Werner. Sometimes I wonder if you really WANT me to work for you. Or if you'd rather see me walk.
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