HOWDY! Well we have been waiting for a door at the shipper in Henderson, Nevada for more than ten hours. We aren’t the only ones though. There are trucks here that was here when we arrived. I can’t get an answer from anybody about what the delay is. I have seen multiple trucks come in and go right to a door. Others I have seen do a uturn and leave right away. What a joke this is. I was awake to drive here. Then we have been awake waiting for the door. Then I’m expected to drive in the morning – that is if we ever get loaded. Las Vegas is one of those busy cities that if you don’t find parking by 5pm, you are out of luck. The bad thing is once we leave the city, it’s all backroads until Oregon, so very limited parking along the way. This has really messed with our schedule and sadly, alot of shippers and receivers all have total disregard for trucker schedules. If we are late, they throw a fit and fine us as much as $500.00 AND then reschedule. But, they get away with it, so nothing will ever change.
Onto other news…a little story about a chat I had with the driver parked next to us that is also waiting. During our conversation about parking and the lack thereof this time of night, he asked about what truckstops were around. I told him the general locations but he seemed really confused. So, to make things easier, I pulled up the addresses on my tablet and wrote them down. He looked at the paper and told me he doesn’t know where “that is”. That what? Those are two truckstops. Then he told me he doesn’t have any idea how to get there. Huh?
I then said “wait. You are a trucker that has to find thousands of customers all aroundthe country but you can’t find this?” I told him to put the address in Google maps to get directions. He told me customer addresses are automatically on his truck navigation so he never uses Google. All I could do was shake my head. Is there no way you can think of to find your way to a truckstop? After he told me he wished I would just tell him where they are I just walked away. I can’t believe this guy was that clueless. How does he survive as a trucker? How does he survive in life period?
And so goes our night. Still waiting. Still trying to keep my sanity. No idea of what the broadcast schedule will be but I’m sure you can find the way to our stream once we do get driving. You can, can’t you?
