New Caney, Texas: Flying J

I am back where my day started. It took forever this afternoon for dispatch to get me a load, then it was hurry up and get there. I am half convinced that the load was available all day, and they finally found it after lunch. Then once they booked it they just handed it over to my over worked dispatcher, who then forgot about it for a while. I can understand how that could happen, mainly because I have been a dispatcher, and when the phone keeps ringing, it is easy for things to get forgotten or buried. It is a big problem though, since today was basically a waste as far as driving goes, it seems unlikely that I will be able to get rid of my current load before Monday. Which makes getting home more difficult, though not impossible. I will start applying pressure tomorrow morning with an email. I will be done with my ten hour break at 5:15 tomorrow morning, but since I am currently doing my laundry, it seems likely that I will be sleeping a bit past that.

Planning ahead for tomorrow, it looks like I will make it to somewhere between Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, before I will have to stop. I will have to fuel somewhere along the way as well, since my tanks are definitely low, though I am unsure how low since my fuel gauge doesn't go below a half, ever. I figure I probably have between an eighth and three eighths of a tank left. It doesn't sound like much, but when you are starting out with around 226 gallons as full, it isn't that bad.

The place I picked up at today was a bit funny, the dock workers barely spoke English because they were all Hispanic, and the office people barely spoke English because they were all Asian. It make one wonder how anything gets done there. Other than that I did get loaded fairly quickly, and it was a lot easier dock to get into than this morning's fiasco. I also got to enjoy the evening rush hour getting out of Houston tonight. Dealing with traffic and the long wait, just made me not care about the possible extra two and a half hours I could have driven tonight. Of course then I would be down to my last set of clean clothes, (well I do have some spares, but no jeans). So stopping here is really the best option.