Spent night at shell station as expected. Arrived a half hour early for appointment and they put me right in the dock. North West Freight Handlers (Lumpers) went right to work while I was prepping the comcheck.
Looking at my logs, I have two hours in which I can work today. In that two hours, I need to get down to Lewiston (or close to it) for my next load. I'll have about 18 hours workable in which to get that load to Denver. Should be good, cuz the last load looks to have taken about 16 hours – and that one spent a lot of time putzing along at 35-5 on highways 12 and 13, and in the back of beyond, ID.
Gah! Made it to Lewiston barely in the nick of time. Would have had about 10 minutes to spare, but got behind this moron in a step van that would NOT go the speed limit. Generally about 10 under. I was wondering why nobody was passing – it turns out that the three vehicles immediately behind him were part of his caravan.. and nobody sane wants to pass 4 cars at once. By the time we got to Colton, WA, I'd been behind him for 30 miles. I could not see the end of the train of vehicles behind us – it was at least 40 vehicles long- possibly longer. In Colton, he FINALLY pulled over and let people by. A whole 5 miles from US 95 and 4 lanes of travel. Frelling moron!
Going through truck's permit book – don't have over-length permit for Idaho. Asked dispatch if they could tell how much one would cost, and if Port of Entry would take Comcheck. They seem a bit confused – it's apparently supposed to be in the book. I double checked, only thing with Idaho on it is the hazmat permit. Not the same thing at all. We'll see how this goes. I think I'm gonna take the book in Monday and ask Tim or Danny to look through it and see what's missing. Don't want to run into this again.
As usual for this part of the world, it's hotter than hell in August. Truck says it's 103 outside. And I'm not even on blacktop – dirt lot. Probably actually closer to 95. I'm idling the truck anyway, until it cools off a bit.
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