DATELINE: MEMPHIS, IN, 6:15 p.m. EST
TA DA! I'm back! Many humblest apologies for my disappearance from the blog waves these last few weeks. The major factors that kept me silent were:
1. USA's been keeping me busy, with long days and tight schedules that left me little spare free time to compose daily updates for y'all. I've had to limit most of my nightly breaks to 10 hours in order to keep the delivery and pickup schedules. So with the long days, I've needed to spend most of that break time sleeping.
2. The whole grind of the job and other pressures of life have been getting to me lately, and when I have had some spare time, I haven't been in the proper frame of mind to write these reports. (And here's a secret: I'm very slow at writing them. It takes me a long time to form up these word things just the way I want them to be.)
Anyway, I am back now after a long, hard truckin' week. I had the good fortune to have a couple extra days at home for Thanksgiving because the yard where I park my truck during home time was closed over the weekend. It reopened at midnight Sunday night, so Mrs. R.T. drove me back there then. I had been sitting on a load over the weekend that was due at 5:00 Monday morning in Findlay, OH, so after getting things squared away in the truck, I headed out. (Did I mention that I had had a long, busy day on Sunday and was therefore pulling an all-nighter? That made for a fun work day.) The delivery went fine (a drop-and-hook)...you know what, I'm getting tired again, so I don't feel I can sustain a blow-by-blow account of my work week. Suffice to say that it's been all run-run-run, and I'm still working on correcting the sleep deficit with which I started out the week. But here's a summary.
Monday: 351 miles, Romulus, MI to Findlay (delivery), Columbus (pickup), and Lima (another delivery), OH. Parked for the night in Beaverdam, OH.
Tuesday: 565 miles. Picked up a load at our Vandalia, OH terminal and started the long trek to its Uxbridge, MA destination. Stopped for the night in Bloomsburg, PA.
Wednesday: 594 miles. Delivery in Uxbridge, pickup in Townsend, MA, destination: West Jefferson, OH. Stopped for the night in Newburg, NY.
Thursday: 586 miles. Finished the long drive to West Jefferson and delivered the load. Parked in London, OH.
Friday: 453 miles. Pickup in Marion, OH, drive to and deliver in Glasgow, KY. Park in Smith's Grove. KY.
Today: Dropped my empty trailer at another company in Glasgow, bobtailed to Clarksville, IN to pick up another empty trailer. Because my hours are running short, I need a 34-hour break. So my next pickup is Monday morning in Seymour, IN and I'm at a Pilot in here in Memphis (IN, not TN) for the weekend. Whew! Do I ever need that break!
Well, it's 7:30 now, and I'm definitely feeling very tired. I'm set on the rise-very-early-get-to-bed-early schedule these days, so that's to be expected. So I'll wrap this up now. Begging your pardon once more for my lengthy absence from this blog. I hope to do better at keeping a near-daily update schedule here. Send me your best thoughts that I can manage it.
Thanks for continuing to check up on my during my blog break. Let me hear from you, and keep on truckin'.
3 comments:
Hurray, you're finally getting a break! It was about time - you've been sounding a little tired lately, and your time at home wasn't totally relaxing, as usual.
If I drive 50 miles it seems like a long day. You've had some major hauls lately. Get all the sleep you can!
A pretty tough schedule and lotso miles. Hope you get some quality time off for the holidays.
Glad to see you back in the blogosphere, though.
Jim the Baritone
Glad to see that you're back to blogging again.
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