08-14-2012, 03:06 PM
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Feast or famine. The problem is that sometimes the feast isn't really a feast but rather just a cram it all in orgy.
I haven't had a really good paying trip for a while so for tomorrow I get one. Oooooooook. Fuck of a day and if anything goes afoul I'm fucked and will have to end up sleeping in the truck either in some fucking shithole place or so close to home I can smell it.
Run from the shop to get my loaded trailer, then down to S. Plainfield, empty to Boyertown, back to S. Plainfield then empty back, stop to fuel the reefer and truck, take trailer back to the plant then return to the shop and park.
Times......(hrs) .25 to plant, 3 to S. Plainfield, 2 to Boyertown, likewise back to S. Plainfield, 2.75 to shop, .25 to plant, .25 to shop. That's 10.5 out of 11 allowed hours of driving. Now I have to accomplish all this in less than 14 hours or I gotta do the Cinderella bit in the truck. Figure 15 mins to do my pre-trip inspection, 15 to grab the trailer, either 15 mins to drop and swap or 1/2 hr to unload live, maybe an hour to load at Boyertown, whatever it takes at S.P. again, 15 mins to fuel, 15 to drop trailer. Add that to drive time and it's 12.75 hrs (Like it ever goes 100% right)
I'm betting on eating the full 14 hours.
Couldn't get the GOOD one where I run a load to Boyertown, unload that then reload and run to Greensboro, NC, take my 10 hours off at a nice little place just minutes from my delivery, deliver in the morning and run back empty. That run pays better when you break it down to the 2 days it takes and is kinda relaxed and easy compared to the ass busting I'd take doing 2 days like I'm gonna do tomorrow.
The biggest pain in the ass is that once I cross from NJ back to PA the first time I have a time stamp from the toll booth and now have to make sure all the times match up. Then i get a second one when I cross back to PA on the final leg. Whatever happens between those toll times has to be right, tight and legal.
Oh well......I need the money so I gotta go ahead and beat myself up.
I haven't had a really good paying trip for a while so for tomorrow I get one. Oooooooook. Fuck of a day and if anything goes afoul I'm fucked and will have to end up sleeping in the truck either in some fucking shithole place or so close to home I can smell it.
Run from the shop to get my loaded trailer, then down to S. Plainfield, empty to Boyertown, back to S. Plainfield then empty back, stop to fuel the reefer and truck, take trailer back to the plant then return to the shop and park.
Times......(hrs) .25 to plant, 3 to S. Plainfield, 2 to Boyertown, likewise back to S. Plainfield, 2.75 to shop, .25 to plant, .25 to shop. That's 10.5 out of 11 allowed hours of driving. Now I have to accomplish all this in less than 14 hours or I gotta do the Cinderella bit in the truck. Figure 15 mins to do my pre-trip inspection, 15 to grab the trailer, either 15 mins to drop and swap or 1/2 hr to unload live, maybe an hour to load at Boyertown, whatever it takes at S.P. again, 15 mins to fuel, 15 to drop trailer. Add that to drive time and it's 12.75 hrs (Like it ever goes 100% right)
I'm betting on eating the full 14 hours.
Couldn't get the GOOD one where I run a load to Boyertown, unload that then reload and run to Greensboro, NC, take my 10 hours off at a nice little place just minutes from my delivery, deliver in the morning and run back empty. That run pays better when you break it down to the 2 days it takes and is kinda relaxed and easy compared to the ass busting I'd take doing 2 days like I'm gonna do tomorrow.
The biggest pain in the ass is that once I cross from NJ back to PA the first time I have a time stamp from the toll booth and now have to make sure all the times match up. Then i get a second one when I cross back to PA on the final leg. Whatever happens between those toll times has to be right, tight and legal.
Oh well......I need the money so I gotta go ahead and beat myself up.
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