Cheektowaga, New York: Jim's Truck Plaza

I am at a real dive of a truck stop, next to a Kmart that doesn't like trucks in their lot. Looking at the number of cars in their lot, if it wasn't for truck drivers buying things from them they would have closed long ago, so their dislike of trucks is puzzling. Talking to another driver the food in the diner, too seedy to call it a restaurant, is pretty good, and the bathrooms are clean. They also have showers that supposedly are pretty good.

Yes, once again I do not have a load, not even one for tomorrow. So far this week, the only money I have made was the trip here, barely four hundred miles, pitiful. Looking at my average pay for the year, it just keeps dropping lower by the week. I am not sure how much longer I can stay with a sinking ship, they may have new customers, but I am not getting much benefit from them. I think next week, once the truck is out of the shop, I will see how they do with just a week out. It isn't like they can keep me moving when I give them two weeks of running. At least that way I will be home more rather than sitting somewhere. It will also give me more time to look into the other local companies in the area. Browsing online is fine, but nothing compares to talking to someone in person. At this point I wouldn't recommend anyone work for Falcon Transport as a driver or as anything else. A driver won't get the miles they need, and everyone else would never know when they might end up getting fired.

Across an extremely busy street with six lanes of traffic is a nice looking mall, The Walden Galleria. If I had a death wise I might attempt to cross the street to window shop for a few hours. Especially since it looks like I am here for the night. It is a two story mall, with a movie theater and quite a few restaurants in it, seems to be a very easy way to blow some money I can't afford to spend. Definitely much safer to stay here and eat at the cheesy diner tomorrow morning. Even if they have seven different showings of the new Star Trek movie between now and midnight to choose from, at the bargain price of $9.50. Yes, I think resisting will be easy, even if resistance is futile.