Just trucking along

I went and had a thought last week and know I'm paying for it! I figured as long as I had a short week last week and I go on vacation starting on Wednesday, I would work through the weekend. Well I took a load down to Alabama that delivered yesterday. I was empty by 5PM and then found out my next load has 4 pickups and as of 6:15PM today I am sitting at stop #2 and only 260 miles on for the day!! This will teach me to try thinking!!
I don't know how this place gets anything done. They misplaced part of my load and now they are reworking the stuff. Somebody is dishing out a fair amount of money for a truck, trailer and driver sitting here of which I get very little. Which is nothing new.
2 more days and it's vacation time!!!!!!!

Category: General

Today has proved to be quite interesting. The litigation for the accident took place this morning in Chicago. The driver of the car I hit and his lawyer were quite a pair. I think the lawyer took some mail order classes and passed the wrong bar exam!! By the end of the meeting he was basically just babbling on and making no sense at all. The driver of the car couldn't keep his story straight even if his life depended on it. At the scene of the accident he told the police he was fine and then almost two weeks later goes into a doctor complaining of neck and back pain. Today he claims he had told me and the police that he was hurt. Today he claims that he had been in the right lane since getting onto the freeway but told the police that night that he had been in the center lane and had moved over to the right just before the accident!!
Like I said, this was a very interesting morning. He was driving a 93 Mazda that he only paid about $1000 for a couple of years ago and was seeking $1900 for repairs! When a little Mazda can be driven away after being rear-ended by a vehicle grossing about 78000#, they weren't hit too hard!! Our lawyer figures he will hear from the litigation board either this afternoon or sometime Monday. Our lawyer is guessing that the guy isn't going to get a plug nickel out of this and probably wouldn't be able to come up with the $200 to file an appeal. The guy doesn't work any more and when he did it was just odd jobs.

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I had a meeting with my therapist for my depression and we got on the subject of my weight loss. I told her it was going so-so and that my biggest problem is trying to keep from getting bored and wanting to eat. She asked the ultimate question " Have you thought about another line of work?" I just laughed and told her that I have too much diesel running through my veins to do anything else. I think I would be back into a truck within a couple of weeks.
So if anyone out there in la la land has any ideas on how to keep this one brain cell of mine busy while going down the road let me know. For now I am going to get some sort of audio books to learn another language. That way I will know if some foreigner from California is bad mouthing me!!
These last couple of weeks have been quite rough. I messed up on my meds and didn't take a couple for about 2 weeks. Talk about somebodies system being messed up!! After having things straightened out for about a week now, I'm still not 100% yet. A person finds out real quick as to how much some meds help. I was going from crying jags to complete rage to being mellow all in a matter of seconds. I was making the incredible hulk look like a pussy cat!! I'm surprised my wife didn't call the men with the funny white jacket to come and get me.
A week from today I get to sit at some lawyers office in Chicago for a litigation hearing concerning an accident I was in last fall. The other driver admitted fault to the cops, was given a ticket and was able to drive away. He is now suing us and claiming I was at fault! Declined any medical attention on the scene and waited a week before seeing a doctor! Somebody figures on making some money off a trucking company. They probably seen one of the billboards around Chicago that has an ad for a lawyer that specializes in truck related accidents and decided to go for it!! Only in America!!

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I was getting bored just sitting here. So I decided to see if I could possibly bore anybody else so that I wasn't the only one. I am sitting in Cincinnati waiting to get unloaded. My appointment time isn't for another half an hour. The lumper just showed up so hopefully they will get started soon.
So far I haven't had to mess with the DOT during this 72 hour blitz. I don't think all the states are doing 72 hour deal. It wouldn't matter to me if I get checked because it's $30 in my pocket for a clean inspection. Drivers always complain about getting pulled around at the scale and getting an inspection done. Yes it is time consuming, but what isn't. I've been pulled around many times over the years and only ran across one cop in Wyoming that had a real attitude. All the others I've had no problems with. In fact most are willing to joke around with me. No sense getting all worked up over it. I have seen other drivers come in all pissed off and the cops will know before the guy gets to the counter what they are going to do. They will get me done quick and then start on the one with the attitude. They will take their little old time and thoroughly go over everything,truck trailer and paperwork. The driver will be stuck there for a long time!
Now that I've bored anybody that read this, I just want to know something. I have to get over there from here and then go someplace else and plan to go this way and then that way. My question is what time will it be in China when I get where I'm going?

Category: General