AN ACTIVE DAY

We were up early yesterday morning to start driving towards our first delivery of the day at Pepsi-Cola in Corvallis, OR. Just shy of 100 miles into the day and we were unloading two of the 9 pallets of chilled juice we had on board. We had a little difficulty actually finding the correct location. Sure, the GPS and mapping program said we were in the right place, but the open field proved them wrong. With this being the first time anyone had delivered, there were no directions available on the truck computer. So, off on foot Craig went, but he didn't have to go far, looking down a dead end street he saw the Pepsi trucks and we knew where to go.


It was somewhat of a tight fit getting into this little place. It looked more like a Pepsi vending machine graveyard than a distribution center, as most every spare space around the buildings were occupied by vending machines in need of a little tender loving care. It took longer to get situated into the dock than it did to off load the 2 pallets we had for this location, but we were off and on our way towards Clackamas, OR.

The remaining 7 pallets were dropped off at the Safeway distribution center in Clackamas, OR and at a Core-Mark in Milwaukie, OR. As soon as we were empty we were told to dead head to the Fred Meyer distribution center in back in Clackamas and drop our trailer. We were then to bobtail south to Salem, Or and meet up with another driver to repower his load as he had run out of hours. With starting as early as we did, we were also dangerously close to running out of hours ourselves, but were able to hook up to our new trailer, loaded with banana for the Fred Meyer DC in Puyallup, Wa, and head to the nearest truck stop in Brooks, OR.

This load is suppose to deliver at 5am this morning. It is now near 3:30am as I write this, and we still have some miles to go. We may not make it right at 5am, but we will be close, and we had forewarned dispatch yesterday, when they gave us this load, that with the 10 hour mandatory break, we would most likely be there between 5am and 6am. All I know right now is, once we get there, it's nap time!