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Ah the life of a truck driver.
I get a chance to take a decent long run for a change of scenery and I jumped at it. The trip is to just the other side of Statesville, NC. Dispatch told me earlier in the week when I grabbed it that it won't mess up my Easter Sunday because it's an 11 AM Monday appt and I can run it however I want to. That would entail pulling out around midnight Sunday night and running straight down. After I made delivery I could run 2 hours back toward home and then I'd need to go off duty for 10 hours (as required by federal hours of service regulations) and then boogie the rest of the way back and essentially have Tuesday off.
THEN on Friday morning they tell me I will also be picking up cracked eggs across the state just off of I-95.
The first delivery is as I said near Statesville which is over by I-77. The pick up is 235 miles away from the delivery and due to the time I deliver there's A) no time left for me to drive all the way there (can only run 11 hours) and B) even if I could make it there I would get there after they are closed. Bottom line......it will be a Tuesday morning (7 AM) pick up. If I run down....deliver...run across as far as I can...take 10 hrs off then run the rest of the way to the pick up, I'll likely not make it all the way back and have to take ANOTHER 10 hours about 1 - 1 1/2 hours away from home!!!!!!!!!!
Now this also messes me up because on Friday afternoon they tell me to call from the delivery site and find out if I WILL go get the eggs or just come back!!!!!!!!
WTF?
SO..........now to facilitate this POSSIBLE clusterfuck and not shoot myself in the foot for the rest of the week I have to leave TODAY, run down and take 10......deliver Monday and then run across the state, take another 10 or more hours off and pick up first thing Tues morning then run back to the plant.
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I get a chance to take a decent long run for a change of scenery and I jumped at it. The trip is to just the other side of Statesville, NC. Dispatch told me earlier in the week when I grabbed it that it won't mess up my Easter Sunday because it's an 11 AM Monday appt and I can run it however I want to. That would entail pulling out around midnight Sunday night and running straight down. After I made delivery I could run 2 hours back toward home and then I'd need to go off duty for 10 hours (as required by federal hours of service regulations) and then boogie the rest of the way back and essentially have Tuesday off.
THEN on Friday morning they tell me I will also be picking up cracked eggs across the state just off of I-95.
The first delivery is as I said near Statesville which is over by I-77. The pick up is 235 miles away from the delivery and due to the time I deliver there's A) no time left for me to drive all the way there (can only run 11 hours) and B) even if I could make it there I would get there after they are closed. Bottom line......it will be a Tuesday morning (7 AM) pick up. If I run down....deliver...run across as far as I can...take 10 hrs off then run the rest of the way to the pick up, I'll likely not make it all the way back and have to take ANOTHER 10 hours about 1 - 1 1/2 hours away from home!!!!!!!!!!
Now this also messes me up because on Friday afternoon they tell me to call from the delivery site and find out if I WILL go get the eggs or just come back!!!!!!!!
WTF?
SO..........now to facilitate this POSSIBLE clusterfuck and not shoot myself in the foot for the rest of the week I have to leave TODAY, run down and take 10......deliver Monday and then run across the state, take another 10 or more hours off and pick up first thing Tues morning then run back to the plant.
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