Well it happened did not leave as expected Thursday the driver they wanted me to go with said no hitchhikers. Got a call Friday morning 6:30 told to get to terminal ASAP. I arrived at 8:00 am and met my "co-driver" to Texas and then we sat. Finely the asked us to do a couple of runs for them. Simple things take one truck to freightliner, and pickup another one that we needed to take down the hill in Fontana while picking up the truck we will be taking to Texas from the body shop. We arrived at the body shop at 12:30 and was told it would not be ready until after 4:00.
We finely left Adelanto at 9:00 pm me behind the wheel co-driver trying to sleep. I drove as long as I could made it to Holbrook Arizona unfortunately my co-driver who had not teamed with anyone since he was in training 10 years ago was not ready to drive. So we parked for a few hours so he can get some rest. We made it to Wilmer, Tx Sunday night I got the truck that I was to pickup to and went to pickup my load in Waxahachie to California. When I arrived the load I was to pickup was already gone? There was 1 pallet that still had to go to the same location they decided to give me that 1 pallet. I told them they are crazy but I will take it if they wanted me to I would be willing to wait but they insisted I take it. Made it to Amarillo had been sleeping for a couple of hours when I received a call from my DM telling me I needed to take the pallet back, that it was to go via air freight. Got it back to Waxahachie Tuesday night and got another load to California delivered it Thursday afternoon. Got my next load to pickup that evening 160 miles away arrived at 8:30 and found out my load was already picked up 4 hours earlier. Luckily they had another one that I could pickup which I did but my 14 hours where up and had the spend the night at shippers. After 3000 + miles I made it back to my new home terminal yesterday. Will be home until tomorrow and then will be heading out tomorrow. I am a bit tired but after not working for 6 months I'm doing OK.
