Tuesday 10/14/08

We left the yard this morning around 7am intending to make a quick run around the road test course so I'd be familiar with it, then head over to a drop lot to grab an empty trailer, get loaded in Wausau, and be on our merry way south. Enter Murphy. My trainer was unsure of the...well let's face it, he didn't know where in the hell he was going. So our 20 minute road course trip took over an hour. Our empty trailer was supposed to be nearby. Nope, not in the drop lot. Maybe its at one of our regular shippers right up the road. Nope. After discussing with dispatch, we were told there was indeed an empty trailer available. In the company yard.

So we finally get to the shipper and get our assigned dock and a guy walks out to tell us they're about to go to lunch, and the brooms are inside the door so make sure the trailer is swept out before we load you. We, and by "we" I mean "I", swept the trailer out before going across the street to grab some lunch. It wasn't ten minutes after we got back that a guy came out with our paperwork. Beautiful. With that, we were finally able to get on the road. US-51S was pretty much our route today. I hit some rush hour traffic, but it cleared up pretty quick.

Oh yeah, I'm going home tomorrow!! My trainer is going to drop me off on the way down and pick me up whenever he comes back through. Sweet!