Quality Control

Hey gang! Well, we had a successful delivery early this morning at 2am. Then, once we got our break over, we headed to the next shipper to pick up our preloaded trailer. Yes, I know lately preloaded trailers were never actually ready. This time I was excited though because we had the loaded trailer number already which we’d never get unless it was loaded and ready.

So, because of the long line to get into the shipper, it took us 45 minutes to reach the gate. We go in, drop our empty trailer, and hook up to our loaded trailer. There is only one outbound lane (but 3 inbound) and we were behind 29 other trucks trying to escape! We get up to security and find out that our load has been placed on “quality hold” and we had to turn around and put it right back where we got it. We were told to bobtail out and talk to our dispatch about getting another trip.

Yeah, about that… we only started the day with 8 hours or so, and used half of those messing with the shipper this morning. Wednesday morning we only gain back 2.5 hours. And, we don’t even have a trailer anymore! Not sure what the next course of action is, but it’d be a good bet to take a 34hr restart so we don’t have to fight that 70hr clock!

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