Just trucking along

This working through the weekend sucks! I decided to work over the weekend and it took me awhile to remember how to log without a 34 hr reset. Luckily I ran out of hours at the house. Bad thing is I have to be rolling again by 2am. I'm not going to get too far though. I will only have 7.5 hrs to work with. Dispatch didn't like to hear that part. He was figuring I could be about 490 miles from here by 1500 tomorrow. Now he has to figure out who I can swap loads with and where. I love it when dispatch doesn't pay attention to the information that is right in front of his nose. I have to send in my hrs everyday and the computer at work keeps track of hours available for each of the drivers. Dispatch doesn't even have to do much figuring. I don't have a truck fast enough to do 490 miles in 7 hrs. The load goes to Ohio so that is 3 slow states to travel through and Chicago!
I can't complain about my miles lately. I left the house on the 4th at about noon and was back here today by noon and have about 4000 miles put on. I even spent part of Saturday at home.
I want to get some good miles in now because i want to take 4 days off next weekend. Get home on Thursday and then head out to Lake Michigan to fish in a derby for 3 days with my Dad.He's in his 70's now and I want to take advantage of things like this. We both enjoy fishing and he has his boat all rigged for great lakes fishing. I think this will be alot of fun.

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