What's a driver to do? We arrived at our destination this morning. Our directions were quite simple... no name on building, long gray building across from Maryland's chicken.... ok so you're in a strange town, small town at that, looking for a long gray nameless building... in the dark!
We arrived at 7:30 am and our delivery time was 8:00 am. We back up to the dock and Trapper gets out and rings the bell at the door. No answer. No problem, we're early right?
8:15 am rolls around and after Trapper does a quick inspection of the property, there is absolutely no one here. We decide it's just a warehouse and decided to call the number on the bill of lading. That information has to correct, right?
No answer at the first number, so I googled the name of the place and found a couple of more phone numbers. We call those, no answer.... we finally called our dispatcher who in turn called the Laredo terminal (where this load originated).
The Laredo terminal calls us and explains they can't get anyone on the phone either... for us to sit tight. Ok... we're sitting....
Two hours later, two and a half hours since this started... our qualcomm goes off and we are headed to the Atlanta, GA drop yard. Turns out the place we are trying to deliver is.... (wait for it)..... CLOSED on Fridays! LOL
As I type we are sitting in Atlanta waiting on our next load.
WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
10 years ago
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