Between having to go take a drug test, and not getting very much sleep the night before, we didn’t even get out of Ohio yesterday! This means got to cover over 580 miles today across Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut to make delivery in Windsor, Connecticut! We do run into some road construction in Hubbard, Ohio where we'll stop for fuel, but we'll make good time otherwise. You can see on this map of our overall … [Read more...]
Random Drug Test Before Getting our Tipp City Load
January 20, 2019 by ·
We made our delivery in Lockbourne, Ohio last night and then drove a short distance to Schneider's Columbus terminal near Groveport. This morning I got picked for a random drug test; so we've got to go do that before heading out to get our next load in Tipp City, Ohio. Dealing with the drug test took over two hours, so we arrived at the shipper in Tipp City at the last minute. After getting the load of food products, we have to … [Read more...]
Load Rescheduling Blues – Another Day Not Going as Expected
December 26, 2018 by ·
Just when you think everything is going according to plan; someone throws a curve ball to mess things up! We're rolling along just fine until a half way through the day I'm informed that the next load I had booked has been rescheduled. This creates a conflict with the load I had booked after that. I had to scrap both of those loads and find and re-book new loads to replace them. And, since I'm in a hurry, I made mistakes and … [Read more...]
