Mix up at the trailer yard.............

Its been a disappointing and stressful past couple of days here in SC.

After finally making it through that snowstorm and delivering on Monday morning, we have waited 2 days to get another load. We had plenty of offers, but none, except one, that we would have made any profit on had we taken it. Unfortunately the one that would have been profitable for some reason took about half and hour to come over our Driver Tech (our satellite communication system) and by the time we responded to it, the load was already taken by someone else. Our driver manager was out sick yesterday or he would have called us and given us a heads up.

Last night we finally received an offer good enough to accept. However, we needed a different type of trailer than the one we currently had. The load was picking up in Charleston, SC and there was a place we keep empty trailers on the way there, so we were instructed to stop and pick up a RGN, or removable goose neck. Some of you might know this as a lowboy. The trailer detaches so that you can drive a vehicle up on onto the bed.

We arrived there about 9 pm last night, and guess what? There were no RGN’s to be found anywhere. We put a call into dispatch and called it a night. It seems as if it weren’t for bad luck, we would have no luck at all.

The day dawns bright and sunny and its warmer now than we’ve seen in a couple weeks. After waiting for the time difference between SC and Minnesota, we get a message from our dispatcher. They Send us a few more load offers, and we take one that picks up in NC and is going to TX but it isn‘t supposed to pick up until tomorrow. Which puts us behind again for this week. Hopefully we can find a Wal-mart that we can get to, we need some supplies and I unbelievably forgot Joe's birthday this weekend in time to have some things shipped to NY for him last week.

It sounds like this load is going to be a real nightmare, it’s a load of elevators and both of the other of our drivers that are here have warned us about these loads and the place we are going to pick it up. I have a feeling this will be another one of those “Can’t wait to forget” experiences. Oh, and it has to be tarped naturally.

We talked to another one of our drivers that is loading here this morning and he said this is his last load for this company and then he is leaving to go to one of what I call the “Big Three” (Swift, JB Hunt and Schneider). We will be following in his footsteps as soon as we can sell our truck. It’s a sad day indeed when you are offered a better deal from one of these companies than we have here now. The economy certainly is not getting any better any time soon.

We did spend some time yesterday getting the truck washed taking all new pictures and listing it again with another company in an effort to get it sold. Hopefully soon our luck will change.

Check back later to see how we make out with our lovely load of elevators. Going up?