I made my delivery in Minneapolis yesterday. It was raining and cold and took far too long in my opinion. Standing in a cold rain does seem to make everything take too long. Once the machine was unloaded they loaded up the forklift I was to pick up there and I started making my way back across the state to the yard.
It wasn't really a hard day at all but for some reason by the time I reached the yard I was exhausted although I'm not sure why. I was looking forward to some rest.
The boss asked me if I would travel half way back across the state to make a 5:00am pick up and deliver the load to the Southern part of the state. I didn't say no but I think the look on my face was enough to convince him that I really wasn't too thrilled at the prospect. He called another driver and asked him to do it instead and told me to go get some rest. I was more than happy to oblige.
I was originally supposed to put my truck in the body shop this morning to have the repairs made to the damages caused by the rookie driver who hit it in a truckstop. All of the parts are now in, but the body shop was booked up and so now I'm waiting to hear when we will be able to have the repairs made.
I'll probably do some load shagging today while we wait to find out. Shagging loads is basically going and picking up various parts of loads and bringing them back here to the yard where the full loads we haul out are put together. It's a lot of work and running around but that how we get our high paying loads and somebody has to do it. I still feel a bit tired, maybe I'm coming down with a bug, but I'm rested enough now to make some pick ups while waiting to hear from the body shop.
It's still cloudy, cold, and miserable out here but at least it isn't raining at the moment. Time to wander into dispatch and see what sort of fun they have in mind for me this morning.