Marengo,OH

Do you ever do something, then after you start doing it, realize that it was stupid and just want to kick yourself in the ass? I had one of those moments today. I set my alarm for 0700 to get up so that I could see if by some miracle I had a load assignment yet. I didn't. So I headed into McDonald's grabbed breakfast then came out and walked Smokey. After that I got back into the truck and chilled for a while. Talked to my Mom since it is Mother's Day. Also got a call from Justin, my step-son, although I am sure he and Jessica got a text from J reminding them what day it was. LOL Jessica sent me a text since she was at work. Then I talked to J for a while.

After all that, I decided I better get all my trip sheets filled out so that I could send them in to get paid. As I was working on the last one, my Qualcomm beeps. Awesome, I have a load. It loads at 0300 Monday morning and delivers up to Alpena,MI at 0800 on Tuesday. Double awesome because that will go on this paycheck.

Now I have to sit and figure out when I need to leave to pick the load up since it is picking up really early. I decide that I will go ahead and head that direction and find a place to park that is fairly close. That way, when I get up, I can get the load and get most of the driving done since I stopped early enough to get a 10 hour break in before I picked up. Now this is where I want to kick myself in the ass.

I headed out and got maybe 30 miles down the road when it hits me. If I would have stayed until at least 1930 hours tonight, I would have gotten a 34 hour restart! So I just screwed myself! Even if I had left at 1930 and drove the 150 miles to pick the load up, I still would have had time to get half way there, take another 10 hour break and still be able to deliver on time. ARGH! I am so mad at myself! This is going to come back to bite me in the ass later in the week when I will be forced to sit for 34 hours and not make money when I could have accompolished that today. It is frustrating. This is the part about driving solo that I don't like. All the planning. I know solo guys do this all the time, but I am just not in that frame of thinking since I am so used to running team.

So here I sit at the Pilot in Marengo,OH. I am going to head to bed in about 30 minutes then get up and be on the road by around 0130 to drive the last 46 miles to the shipper. I am hoping for a preloaded trailer so that I can drive the majority of the way and stop at the last truck stop before the receiver. That way I can get a good nights sleep and then drive in Tuesday morning for my 0800 appointment.

This is Tracy with her head up her ass signing off for now.......