It was bound to happen....

Finally, after a year and a half on the road, I feel complete as a truck driver. Last night we had a lot lizard knock on the door! :) Because you know you aren't a "real" driver until that happens. LOL J, bless his heart, is not the nicest of people when you wake him up. She didn't bang on the door, just knocked, so I figured that is who it was knocking. A driver will actually bang on the door, not a timid little knock. He peeked out the curtain and saw who it was and told her to get lost. He said if she had been half way decent looking he would have been nicer. But in his words, "she looked like a beaver and was about 300 lbs" and when she pointed at the "goods" and asked if he was sure, then he told her to "f'ing get lost." It was hysterical! Now that I am pretty confident that the timid little knocks are going to be lot lizards, I think I will greet the next one and explain that my man doesn't need some skank ho to keep him satisfied. He has a wife, who by the way is much better looking than a 300 pound beaver if I do say so myself, that can keep him happy on the road! :)

After the lot lizard incident last night, we got back to sleep at that little Pilot and J got up this morning and took off to Cutler which was our second stop. I felt him arrive there but never felt him leave. I was tired. I woke up while he was on the way to our third stop. I asked him if he remembered to send in the trip sheets so we could get paid and he said "SHIT" which means no. Haha So we stop at a Flying J only to find out they don't have that service. We were able to fax the stuff to our FM who is supposed to get it scanned in there for us. We will see if we have a check this week. We freaking better and he better make sure he gets it scanned. I hate when people say they will do something and then don't.

We are currently sitting at our last pick-up and we are still having problems with this trailer. We keep getting an Alarm Shutdown A13 alarm. The unit has shut down 3 times on us so far and the last time, when we pulled into this shipper, it took 4 tries to get it running again. Now after we are loaded we have to take it to a Carrier rep here in Bakersfield to have them look at it. I just got off the phone with the guy and he said worst case scenario is they would have to send us to a cold storage place to have all the produce off loaded so they could get to the inside of the trailer. NICE. But that is worst case so I am hoping for better news than that. He said that code means it is over-charging the system. Maybe too much freon he said but of course they wont know anything until he can take a look at it. They close at 1630 local and I don't know if we can make it by then since we are still being loaded. They do have after hours that can take care of it, but of course that will cost an arm and a leg. Thank goodness it is the Trailer and Prime will take care of that bill. What irritates me is that they had it in the shop yesterday and found nothing wrong with it. Either it has gotten worse since then ot they didn't know what they were doing. Regardess we will probably have to change our delivery appointment because of this. We have almost 2700 miles to destination and 57 hours as of right now to do it in. We shall see. At least the Carrier rep is real close to where we stopped night before last so I can run grab a shower while they are working on it.

More on the trailer saga to come as the story unfolds.....