Well made it to Florida not without issues. My first stop went off OK I was told that my appointment was for 4:00 pm, however, I found out just before I got there that it was an open appointment first come, first served. 4:00 pm was closing time, I did get there an hour before my "appointment" so I was good. My second stop was not until Tuesday at Wal-mart DC in Shelbyville, Tn was told appointment was for 8:00 am and given a confirmation number. I arrived at 7:15 am and was notified that I did not have an appointment and that the confirmation was a confirmation of a pre-schedule? So that did not happen I sat for 3 hours before they decided what they wanted to do with the load. Ended up taking to Nashville and a forwarding company who will deliver it for us. By this time I am 5 hours behind schedule as I planned on being in Jacksonville by 5:00 pm never made it out of Georgia. Jacksonville went of as planned I told customer service that I'd be late I'd be there at 9:30 eastern time and not 6:30 as scheduled she said she'd let them know. That did not happen but they did take their 2 pallets and finally got to my last delivery in Gainesville just to find out I had no appointment, luckily they took it as well. So by 12:00 I was empty notified the terminal and was told to call back in the morning? They had no loads for me, I was told that if your not out of the Georgia terminal it will be hard to get a load out they favor their drivers. I was kind of use to it since Swift had the same problem with the Memphis terminal.
I did get a load out on Thursday picking up in Monroe, Ga and delivering in Grandview, Mo (or so I was told) left Reddick, FL at 3:00 pm it had be raining a little bit before I left but as soon as I got on I-75 it just let loose this was the leading edges of TS Fay. Arrived at customer Angel Food Ministries http://www.angelfoodministries.com/ at 9:30 pm 30 minutes early, another driver from my terminal was there and another was to show up soon. We all where given the wrong pickup numbers but they where able to determine the other guys loads me not so lucky so I drove 360 miles in a lot of heavy rain (near zero visibility) maybe for naught. However, the right info in the morning CSR inputted wrong. Made it to my delivery to Calvary Chapel in Granger, In on time with a couple of hours to spare even got some sleep before everyone arrived to unload the trailer. Of course being it is a Saturday I get the weekend off, told there will be no loads for me until Monday, so here I sit in Porter, In. The good news I got a shower and was able to do laundry today.
In the three weeks since I have left I've gone from Bakersfield, Ca to North Hatfield, Ma down to Edison, NJ to Fairfield NJ to Minster, Oh to Columbus, Oh back to Edison (This does not include the trip to Florida or up to Indiana). A total of 4400 miles my total pay received $1000.00 including $460.00 in advances (both for personal and company needs) so for two weeks my checking account received $600.00. Needless to say my wife was furious to say the least. Turns out they "Forgot" to input the load to Minster 600 miles and "inputted" the wrong info from the Columbus run 640 miles. Also this is the week that 90% of the office staff in my terminal are now unemployed I am sure there is no connection. Well my next check should be good with the 1240 from last week with the 3020 this week unless of course they forget or input wrong again. We will see next Friday anyway
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