10/9/08

You know what's really good? Swedish fish. I don't think I've had any of those since I was a kid, until tonight. Tasty.

It was looking like a pretty lousy day for a while there. Around 2pm I had only made it to #10 on the board. Then I got an assignment. 49 miles? El Paso to Las Cruces? What? I grabbed my notepad so I could petition Congress for a bailout, but I got another beep before I started writing. They had a better run for me, but first I needed to get some copper from the mine in El Paso and run it up to a customer before they closed today. Then I would deadhead back to El Paso for my planned assignment. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. I get it. Fair enough.

I had only been to the copper place once before. On that previous occasion I was there for a few hours. Today I was in and out immediately. I had to nail down some 2x4's to keep the load in place, but that's not exactly backbreaking work.

So I got unloaded in Las Cruces and pulled my empty back down to El Paso. A quick drop/hook later, I was headed... east. I win! Haha, I thought for sure I would jinx myself and get something to the Left Coast. Not this time though. I have a Monday delivery in Tennessee. Tonight I headed up to Pecos and stopped at the Flying J for the night. I should be able to get into Arkansas tomorrow and then look for a motel somewhere along the way for Saturday.

Another week, another $1,100+. That'll do. The final tally will be 2,836 miles plus the one extra stop.

It sounds like the Bush administration decided that we're going to own stocks of banks now too. Awesome! Maybe they'll nationalize the trucking industry next. I think a mandatory salary of $90,000 and two months' paid vacation should be cool. If we're going to be socialists, why pussyfoot around? Let's go full tilt. That's my policy.