LAZY TRUCKER DAY

Sometimes it's hard to get back into the groove after sitting for a couple of days. Such was the case this morning, especially when the alarm went off at 4am, after a night of staying up and watching the Olympics. But, good thing we gave ourselves an extra hour to get to our delivery location, as per usual, the Los Angeles highways had their share of accidents which slowed down our travel time.

We were surprised upon our arrival at the Receiver, to see not one, but two other TWT trucks sitting waiting to be unloaded. They had staged there since Sunday and had spent the night waiting for their morning deliveries. After checking in, we were told we were 4th in line to unload in their one tiny little dock. As before, we have no trouble sitting, knowing that with each passing quarter hour, we make money.

We enjoyed watching the other drivers get into the dock. As you can see, once situated into the dock, you had to unhook from the trailer, so as not to block the street. Craig and I impressed some of the other drivers with our team work and communication getting him backed up with just one run at it.

After four hours we were finally unloaded and sent in our empty call. Neither one of us were all too enthused to jump right on another assignment, so when we didn't hear anything, and having a nice parking spot along the street, we settled in to take a nap. Yep, you guessed it, just as I pulled my little blanket over me to drift off to slumber land, the beep came across. This time it said they didn't have anything for us yet, and to head back to the Company yard in Bloomington, and along the way, drop off the 22 pallets we had picked up in Idaho, at a local pallet company.

Back at the yard, we took showers and did laundry, and upon returning to the truck we saw that we had been given a dispatch. We are to head to the City of Industry, CA to the Tropicana Plant first thing Tuesday morning at 8am, to pick up over 42,000 pounds of juice and take it to the Fred Meyer Distribution Center in Puyullap, WA, by Thursday morning at 9am. Looks like we will have to lose the lazies and gear up for a very nice 1150 mile run over two days.