When someone’s mistake works in your favor (Patreon)

This week started okay, I was offered a load 1200km away, with 3 days to get there. I took it, because it let me restart easy. BUT, it seems someone realized I’d hit the road early for the load, because once I got to the customer on Thursday morning, my delivery day, I was informed the delivery had been moved to Wednesday Morning. Which, of course, no one informed me of.

Now, where this sort of worked in my favor was that my appointment time was late morning, and I got there pretty early. I already had my next pickup and if everything worked out fine, it would be close to be there on time. me being a day late for the delivery didn’t bode well, so I let dispatch know about it.

Usually when something like this happens, I can sit for hours before they have the time to get me in.

5 minutes after telling me I’d have to wait, he told me to back in the door. Turns out the truck ahead of me didn’t have everything in order and they weren’t unloading it. So I could go in. I ended up leaving the customer 3 hours early, if my normal appointment time had happened.

It made for a no stress drive to the shipper, and then heading for Vancouver, where I’m delivering on Thursday.

Other thing on note is that I think it’s actually winter. I’ve had to idle the truck a night or two because of how cold it got. Even the nights I didn’t have to, it was still cold enough the bunk heater only just managed to keep the truck warm.

And that’s it for now, so I’ll see you on the next one.