I'm Back!!!

All right... So after the holiday they sent me back down to Baltimore area to grab a load for Mississaga ON. This company takes care of a paper work for the border for us so I headed out. Got to Buffalo and spent the night parked in front of the business that I park at when I go home. My dad brought me My new Drivers license, my mail and a piece of pumpkin pie mom sent along. Then he went a got me a cup of coffee. ahhh it is nice to be home even if it was only for a moment. Then I headed out. Got to the border and you guessed it. The paper work wasn't sent through. SOB!!!! So the broker has on office right there went in took then a couple of hours to get it done and headed into Canada. Got to the Grimsby truck stop and spent the night. Delivered the next day and picked up a load of POP for Wal-Mart in OH. Ran that down here and now and headed to Columbus to grab a load to goto TX.I guess the road are pretty slick. The wind is blowing but not to bad. But it is an empty trailer so I am sure I will be all over the road way. I don't have to be there until 5pm so I might just wait a little longer. it is supposed to get better but who knows. At least I can give them time to salt the roads. They want me to deliver this load on the 5th. Only 1200 miles away. But we have a terminal in Dallas and I hope they are going to let me drop it there and have someone else take it the rest of the way. I don't see why I have to hold on to it and sit with it for all that time. We will see when I get down there. I am not going to say anything until I get there because I don't want them to take it from me any earlier than that. I need the miles. Things have been bad as far a freight. Usually it is near impossible to find parking after night fall but it really hasn't been the case. I really think there is a lot less trucks on the road now. I really didn't believe all the talk about how bad the economy is and all that crap, but I am starting to see what they are talking about. The trucking business is really the cannery as far as where the economy is headed. it is one of the first industries hit by a bad economy and one of the first to reap the rewards of an upturn. So I guess I am lucky to have a job. Over the past 6 months there has been thousands of layoffs of drivers. Our company says that wont be the case with us and I believe them. We really are set up pretty well as far as how this operation is run. But I think we still would have been better if we didn't get taken over by Con-way. But I guess there are some advantages to it. at least some possible ones. It just seems like they could be a lot better job as far as the different divisions working togeather. But I guess if that was the case we would even have more Con-way control then we do have now, and from what I have seen that isn't a good thing. I think you can tell a lot about a business at looking at the little things. Even the Con-way bathrooms are never clean. I mean if you can't manage to keep a clean bathroom, how can you trust them to move product efficiently? I guess it sounds a little crazy but it is true. I have been in hundreds of business facilities and the little stuff really tells you a lot about how a business is run. So if you are ever going to buy stock in a company my advice to go there and see if their bathrooms are clean and their offices and warehouse is well organized. Ohhh and i suggest buying stock in Budweiser or another alcohol beverage company. If the economy keeps doing poorly their sales are going to skyrocket, and that's no joke. Better get rolling.
WOOZE