Short Work Day

DATELINE: CHECOTAH, OK, 2:44 p.m. CDT

Miles Today: 144

Not very many miles tody, but hey, how far can you go when you only have 3-3/4 on-duty hours available? I know you (and I) were expecting today's dateline to read "Oklahoma City", but after I made my delivery this morning, I still had enough time left for a pickup and to start heading down the road a ways. By pure dumb luck, there is yet another Flying J right at the spot on the highway where my hours ran out. (I had planned ahead for that, though.)

Anyway, Checotah is most well-known as the home of Carrie Underwood, a name familiar to you American Idol and/or Country Music fans. It is a small town surrounded by nothingness (if you consider rolling grasslands to be nothingness), but they do have a couple of truck stops, hotels, fast food emporiums (emporia?), and the like.

My pickup was another repeat; a place I'd been in January. 'Twas a mere drop-and-hook, so it didn't take much time at all. What I like about that place is it's on a road by the name of "Wolverine". Must be a great place, eh? ;-) This load is headed to southwestern Wisconsin, but I don't know yet if I'll be taking it all the way there or not. Delivery is set for Wednesday morning, and since my hours are limited by the 70-hour regulation, and because I need to swing by our West Memphis terminal to pick up some truck registration paperwork on the way, I may just have to drop the trailer there for someone else to haul it up north.

So that's what's what for today. I'll be up early again in the morning to head to West Memphis. I probably have about 6 hours to drive to get there. Then I'll contact my fleet manager to see what he wants me to do. So check back in tomorrow to find out the latest in this continuing saga. Thanks for reading and commenting, and KOT.