On The Road

Yesterday Sue and Mom and I went up to Laramie to the building dedication for their new church building. In a word - nice. Really nice. And they had a pretty good turn out for the celebration. And enough food to feed and army.

I was late getting out of town again because I badly needed a service on my truck and then couldn't find an empty trailer. Was way to tired to start the week anyway. Tuesday was driving along over by Grants and ran over a piece of gator stretched across my lane and snapped the brake line off right front axle. I made it to the sholder and got the line plugged so I could run it on in to the Petro(only 10 miles away) but couldn't get the brakes backed off. So I called brake down and they sent a Indian kid out with a new line and we had it fixed in no time. I got an hours sleep tuesday night and arrived 10 minutes before my appointment. But no one showed up for 3 more hours to open and unload us(Russ McRae had the same load to the same place for same time). He got his reload and I went back to bed. When my reload came in it was 4 picks, Corona, 2 in Vernon and a L.A.. Made it too Corona and back before rush hour and did Vernon, ate and went to bed till last one opened at 10pm. I was so tired I said screw it and slept till 4:30. I only had 3' or less on back of trailer and 5 pallets to pick up but I hand stacked and what not and got it all in. When I weight it I was 82,460# gross and 39,000 on trailer axle! Ooops. Didn't want to take it back since I had hand stacked it all in there so figured oh well and headed up Cajon. It was closed( I was prepared to wait them out) and I timed it so I would make St. Geo at 1am when they were closed. Came around the bend and they were wide open and running ALL trucks in! I near had a heart attack! Not much I could do at that point but take my medicine. So crossed the scales. Their were 2 guys working inside checking logbooks and not paying attention to scales so just had to produce my logbook for them. If your going to run over weight you had better have it up to date! Don't add insult to injure. Went around Loma and Dumont and was in the yard at 5pm. Made it in time to pick up my check which was the purpose of hurrying home. Then the bad Bad news.

It seems that as of Monday I will become a Navajo employee. They say not but it sure seems that way. Paychecks will come from them(Yhay direct deposit) as will insurance(finally) but we will still be running under Tim at Digby.I don't understand it all, but what are the options? We get new fuel cards, hope it doen't mean we are resticted to Navajo fuel stops. Worst part is that my truck is one of the last 10 new trucks and I have to move out because it has been leased to another Navajo carrier! But the one I'm moving into is a new one just like mine with only 45,000 miles. Driver got deported about a month ago and it has been setting empty. We will have to see how this is all going to work out.

Enough for now. Later...

Well, I've now gotten my first paycheck from the dreaded Navajo. Guess what? It came direct deposit and was on time! Probably a first for them. For the last 5 out of 6 weeks I have delivered at the same place. Nice place, they get right on it and your done in no time at all. Only problem is the appt. is for 4am and I never get there till then and with no sleep for 24 hrs! Then I sleep their for a few hours and start my pick ups. Same went for this week except I only had 1 pick and it delivered friday. I asked the office to delay the delivery appt. as late as they could because I had to pick up my brother at DIA at 6pm and didn't want to set around all day doing nothing. I got a 12 noon appt. so took my time getting home(a nice change to say the least). I was in the office at 11 on friday when my phone rings. It is Sue telling my my brother got a stand by flight and would be in town by 2pm! Best layed plans of men and mice! So I hurried over and they unloaded me right away and I was parked and waiting for them by1:40

Today Mom came down and we took a nice ride up in the mt., something we haven't done in a long time. Had a wonderful time, Mom got to get out of the house for a while and we all enjoyed it. Stopped at Wendy's on the way home.

Had a rather interesting call from Ernie this morning. Seems their garbage disposal had quit working and he was telling me about it and I mentioned did you try the little wrench thingy you get with it. Never heard of it. I told him to look in the tip-out in front of sink and showed him what he was looking for and how to use it. When he got home last night he looked and low and behold it was their, he used it and now everything works again! I'll just put it on his tab for now.

Tomorrow is lining up to be a very busy day so after our ride when we got home I put up the medicine cabinet that we bought 2 weeks ago that I promised to put up that many times! Nice, will take some getting use too. Can't think of much else so

Later...

As you can see by the title nothing much has changed. That is not to say that drivers aren't dropping like flies, just no one is screwing with me. Went back to Long Beach(now 7 wks in a row) and reloaded out of Lodi and Oakland. Gave me good miles and in by 6pm on friday. Came back the nothern rt. so called Sue and met her at Johnsons Coener and ran down to unload. After we got unloaded went over to Flying J and saw Larry P and Gary Wells for a few minutes. Pretty good week. Ran down to Guymon with Russ and he delivered to the same place in Long Beach. This next week I'm headed to Vernon to a place I've been quite a few times.

Tomorrow I guess I need to put a door on the chicken coop and get a run up. That is if I can get my hip to work. I can hardly move the joint is so sore, killing me! I wish I could of helped Thorban and Ernie last week. I here that the door is in and looking good. Pick up is running good. Seems the mileage is trying to creep up a bit.

That's about it. Here is my states map. Later...


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