Boy this morning at 5:30 a.m. we thought we had a sweet treat for Halloween... a 2185 mile run from Laredo, TX to Massachusettes!!
Turned out, it was only to be a trick... oh well... after everyone did the math, you can't make a 76 hour trip (with breaks and all that junk) in 72 hours. So, we are relaying the load in West Memphis, AR.
Our GPS says that since we started rolling this morning... the truck has been moving for 10 hours and 37 minutes of our allowed 11 hours driving time.
In a perfect world, we could have made the entire trip but we all live in the trucking world where you have to expect the unexpected and adjust accordingly.
So, have a safe Halloween... watch out for pranksters... (oh, I'm sounding like a safety recording...., sorry)
People are drawn to this business because of the lure of the open road, no boss over your shoulder, bla, de, dah... when in fact... we have to obey the Federal Motor Carrier laws, we have GPS's that track our every move, we have to document our every stop, and our trucks are only allowed to run so fast.... ironic isn't it?
WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
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