I’ve been neglecting trucking lately. Even thinking about trucking is a little depressing. If I can’t write anything good, then I probably won’t write. I don’t want this to turn into a whine fest, which would be real easy nowadays. But to come out here and have a return trip rescheduled, another trip rescheduled and have a trip offered that paid $1 a mile (thankfully, my office turns that stuff down so I don’t have to deal with those idiots) it gets a little depressing with all of the waiting. Waiting isn’t trucking. Okay, waiting is a part of trucking, [...More...]
Jun 082011
Jun 082011
After being home for more than a week I go back to work tomorrow. I’m going to Los Angeles to pick up a trailer, bring it back to Vegas and move Mama Mia out of Mandalay Bay and take it back to Yonkers, NY for storage. While I enjoyed being home, I couldn’t really enjoy it because I’m not working and not making money to stop worrying about the bills. The holidays are over and everyone should be back to work, ordering stuff and shipping stuff, but they’re not. After talking to a couple of other owners, it’s really bad [...More...]
Jun 082011
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Jun 082011
Which is what trucking is most of the time. Lately though the feasts have been more like snacks and the famines seem like they go on and on. After sitting for two weeks, not finding anything and what was found was not worth taking, I not only get a good load, it’s one I think someone else fell off of. Since I was told, hurry up and get there and the deliveries are saying I’m late, someone committed to this load, then dropped out for whatever reason. Which is fine for me, it’s usually how I get a really good [...More...]
Jun 082011
I mentioned before I was expermenting with flickr.com. If you notice on the right hand side there are a couple of flickr "badges". Same pictures, maybe a few extra than the ones already loaded on Typepad. Not sure if I’m going to stick with flickr or not, but it seems pretty flexible and able to setup security for pictures we don’t need to share with everyone, just friends and family. Not like we get a bunch of traffic here that isn’t friends or family. If you notice, I don’t have ads on this site or a bunch of links to [...More...]
Jun 082011
Drivers Side, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. Here it is. I made a Flikr set and will be adding more pictures of the trailer and the equipment we have. Nothing like a stack of new pads! Most of the equipment is in the boxes below to make room for the trade show crates we’re loading in Orlando on Thursday or Friday and then heading to Vegas for Monday. We have a team load in Reno on Tuesday to Iowa then to Chicago for another team load to Phoenix. A couple of quick runs then back to Vegas to take [...More...]
Jun 082011
I hate going east. It seems you’re already late before you get started. Since I was loaded late in Vegas, I missed the closing time in Denver and had to unload this morning. Drove 700 miles to Iowa. All legally, thanks to 75 mph speed limits in Colorado and Nebraska! I’ll deliver in Minneapolis then haul buns to Chicago for early Friday for two drops. Cindy sounds pretty excited about starting school. It won’t be the same on the road without her. This week is busy and it’s paying okay, but it’s not great for all the LTL and extra [...More...]
The twitter tag I created for the website “REAL Women in Trucking” and companion Facebook fan page called “Real Women Truckers” is @WomenTruckers and this is the bio: “Violence against Women in the trucking industry is being covered up. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? Demand the ATA MAN UP, show leadership” It has close to 3000 followers and I have been using it for about 2 years to talk about this issue and other violence against women issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, human trafficking and other human rights/social justice issues. My personal [...More...]
Jun 082011
View Larger Map I’m trying to not look at the trucking news while I’m sitting here in New Jersey waiting for a load. I’m going to have to move soon because it’s pay to park, but I was trying to stay close to NYC Jersey metro area so I wouldn’t have to drive so far back to the area, but it’s been a few days and I need to start planning on a long, long weekend. The Flying J is about 50 miles away from where I’m at now, which is already 50 miles away from the metro area, but [...More...]
Jun 082011
This is NOT Michigan! So much for working. A couple of possibilities either didn’t pay very much or got rescheduled, one needed a team going to Houston. Which was only 1300 miles. Some “team” loads aren’t really teams. I beat a team to Detroit that they’re still looking for. They were loaded right after I was, I stayed in Vegas for a few hours and drove legally 2000 miles to Detroit. Some teams don’t really drive team. When Cindy was driving with me, we could drive 1500 miles in 24 hours. That’s only stopping for fuel and usually staying at [...More...]