Headed to Fort Worth,Texas

Thankfully this morning we woke up and had another load. It was FedEx again but this one was delivering to Fort Worth,TX instead of Shawnee,KS. So went through the same routine as yesterday. Got up, got a shower, found our empty trailer at Fontana, headed over and picked up the load and thank goodness this one wasn't cancelled! So we headed out and stopped back by the OC real quick to grab some food and then we were off. We have to maintain an average of 47.5 mph per their contract or it is a service failure and the clock starts when we depart the shipper. So we are actually behind since we stopped at the OC for food. It doesn't matter that we weren't moving, the fact is that we left the shipper so all that time stopped, about 45 minutes, went against our average. Anywho, we will make it up. Right now it is 1745 hours, and we have right at 1100 miles to go. I told them we would be there by 150o tomorrow afternoon. I actually thing we will make it sooner than that. Of course that means that we aren't stopping for non moving sleep tonight like we normally do. And that sucks! It means I have to be up and in the drivers seat and driving by 0330, if I get up at 0300. But we said that we were going to run hard to make up for some lost money being broke down, I just didn't mean right off the bat! LOL!!

Oh, coming into Arizona from California I had to pull into the scales and they were checking everyones log books. I wasn't worried because I knew my logs are legal, but it still makes you nervous. And I had never been inspected before so it was all new. But they didn't have me pull in. I just pulled up and they asked for my log book and permit book. So I handed them both out the window. Then the Trooper took it to a little table and thumbed through the log book and another lady (not sure if she was a trooper or what) looked at my permit book and they were done. The Trooper handed them back to me and said "Good job! Have a safe trip." That was nice of him. I can only imagine the drivers that log loose leaf and the pain that is to check. Our log books are in book form and the pages are perforated so we tear out the original and send to Green Bay and we keep the copy for our records and per DOT. But it is over and I passed and didn't even pee my pants, so it was a good day. :)

That's all for now. I'm going to log out and hit the sack. Gotta be up early so I can deliver this on time by the end of my shift tomorrow!