Sylacauga, AL

I apparently have superhuman abilities that allow me to simultaneously be in multiple places, though I haven't figured out how to utilize them yet. My dispatcher appears to have every confidence in me though, since at one point today she had assigned me 4 pre-plans all picking up today. Most in different cities. Birmingham to Catawba. Birmingham to Calhoun. Catawba to Charlestown. Hickory to Wisconsin. Nevermind that my current load isn't scheduled to deliver until tomorrow. At the very least, she has me thoroughly confused. According to my load instructions (which were sent by my dispatcher), the receiver's hours are 7am-5pm. I was at the shipper in Little Rock at 7am this morning. I stopped once to scale and shower and once for lunch. I knew all day that it was highly unlikely I would make it to the receiver by 5pm, and I was right. The Qualcomm message I received (and read after I arrived in Sylacauga) was "if the receiver is closed when you get there, drop the load in Lincoln and you can pick up in Birmingham tonight". Great. Then what? Thanks to the traffic on US-280, which was so terrible I'm convinced it's the cause of all the world's problems, it was after 6pm when I got here. And with only two hours remaining on my 11 and 14-hour clocks, there was no way I could get to Lincoln and Birmingham. Since I'm only five minutes from the receiver, I decided to make the delivery as scheduled and go to Birmingham in the morning.