Laugh For The Day....

I started driving at 0300 all the way up to Eastern ME which might as well have been Mars due to the lack of civilization.

The 01 had three plants across the street from each other and the main gate guard told me to drop my trailer down the street at one yard then find the office there. Office can't find my paperwork but has my trailer number. They tell me to go back to the first building and find both the trailer and BOL.

The trailer is no where in that yard. So I drive through the various yards for an hour... YAY!!!! My trailer... in the yard where the office guy said it would not be. I go to the other building for the bills....passing the guard gate for the fourth time. The entire warehouse is empty. The guy in the 3rd building told me "I'm just stock... I don't know nothing about shipping... but they should be there they don't go to dinner for an hour"

Back to the guard gate. "Do you know when the break"... no. Really? ????

So I see a guy sitting on a picnic bench smoking. I tell him " hi I'm having a bad day and you look like a nice person who can help.me. Do you know anything about the shipping guys?"

Turns out he was the shipping manager and they broke early cause of no trucks. Tells me to put my drop n hook in door 2 so he can put load locks and seal it. I get to door 2.... there's someone there. By this time it is 1500... I started driving at 0300. I really didn't care if the damn trailer was sealed or.not. lol

Another guy comes out and gives me another door... then says "let's check your paperwork and make sure you have the right load cause the morons across the street coukd have screwed rhat up too". Thankfully I had the right one. They could have told me this trailer was going to Alaska and I would have gotten my dispatch changed to take it cause I was not going trailer hunting again

Finally get parked and do the QC report and get a message back "check your traiker number. That trailer is attached to another truck and in Virginia".

I just freaking laughed... told them to run the GPS on the trailer and they would see a pic of me attached to it. I went to sleep and after my break I drove 100 miles and got a message "pull over and call dispatch".

They were still trying to tell me I didn't have the trailer. I was like "ok. Ill send you a pic when I take my next break" hahahha. Omg... what a day

Sounds like a fun one, definitely had those days. Usually that place is on top of it too (assuming you are hauling French fries out of Easton). I like that diner right when you turn on 1.

I just hate going there in winter, last time I was there it was around -20 and no amount of gloves helped with grabbing load locks off the back of the truck.

Maine is home buddy. If you're anywhere but southern Maine you might as well be on another planet. I wouldn't trade it for anything though.

Nothing more beautiful than Mount Katahdin coming up on the port side, heading north with no traffic in front or behind doing 75.

Hey Rainy S, come to think of it, you where in Mars, as you are heading north you have the ski hills to you right and the wind mills, you might have also noticed some planets on poles along the road, well that area is know as Mars Hill.

Hey Rainy S, come to think of it, you where in Mars, as you are heading north you have the ski hills to you right and the wind mills, you might have also noticed some planets on poles along the road, well that area is know as Mars Hill.

I love those planets. Did you know that's the largest scale sized solar system in the world.

I did not know that. I live in TN now, and encourage people to travel to Maine. The Armish community in Houlton has connections with our Armish community in southern middle TN.