Change Of Plans

In the dispatch we had for Spartanburg, SC one of my trucks was "to be determined". Meaning one or more could go but it would be which one was ready to go when we were on the way to pick up.

We stopped in Resaca, GA for fuel in our pickup and called dispatch to see if my truck had been "determined".

An hour later. There will only be three trucks on that dispatch and we were pulled from the load. Joe went into the Flying J at Resaca to receive our dispatch fax. It didn't come and he waited, called dispatch to resend it. It finally came; six pages he was charged $6.00. When he looked at what was handed to him it turned out to be three of the pages twice. Some of his dispatch was missing and all of mine was not there. Ten minutes later, after voice escalation and much gesturing and showing the papers, he got his money back.

When he came back to our pickup, still a little hot, he called the dispatch office again while I called Kinkos in Chattanooga for their fax number.

We are going to La Vergne, TN, which is south of Nashville, for our weekend load. We have three trucks (one doesn't have a transmission) and four trailers going to Tunica, MS to an auction.

We deadheaded 150 miles from Resaca, GA to La Vergne, TN, which is excellent for deadhead miles, and stopped at the Super 8 for the night. We will stay here for two nights.

Our game plan is: take two trailers with the two running trucks, deliver the trailers, drive the trucks back to La Vergne and stay at the hotel. Next day do the same thing to deliver the last two trailers. We will leave one of the trucks at the auction and come back to La Vergne in one. The next day do our normal hookup for the dead truck and the one we have been using as a "horse" and finalize the delivery to Tunica.

That is our plan for now. It can all change when we see the actual condition of the two running trucks.



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