Underweigh at 09:30. Re-checked routing, discovered that I am NOT going through Yakima. Damn. No Miner's for lunch. But I WILL get to Spokane at about the time I estimated originally: 13:00
Missed a turn.. not my fault, though. Construction has all the signs taken down. Took a while to get turned around and back to the intersection... make the turn, and find out that where I need to turn AGAIN to get to the consignee's, the entire road is closed. So I have to turn around AGAIN... and go back up the way I was the first time...
Get to the place (pretty easy,once I made the correct turns), and I find that the load has been re-scheduled for Tuesday morning. Dispatch had sent me a note to this effect a couple hours ago- about the time I was 20 miles from Spokane. I'm a bit peeved- if they'd sent the note yesterday, I could have dawdled in OR, and slept a couple nights in cool weather, instead of this hell-hole (it's 102 right now, according to the truck)
So, here I sit at a Flyiing J, maybe 5 miles from the consignee, waiting for FOUR DAYS to pass, so I can deliver my load. Worse, this screws up my getting home on Tuesday. I mentioned this to
dispatch...supposedly they're working on loads to get me home – sometime this year.
Talking to the kids online. Kodi has officially asked to go out with me on my next run. So long as I get home before Aug 14, all should be good.
Temp is finally down to acceptable levels (it's 71, down from almost 100 at 14:00) Still got a long way to go catching up on Trucker's Report, but I've got days to take care of that. I think I'm gonna bag it for tonight.
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