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ROUTE: Manchester, TN to Brighton, MI: 668 miles (602 loaded + 66 deadhead) Wednesday 11/19 my day started at 06:00 as my delivery was scheduled for 08:00 and I was two hours away. I arrived at 08:30, which is OK, as most places have a one hour tolerance on appointment times. The unload took two…

ROUTE: Hazelton, PA to Lebanon, TN: 956 miles (765 loaded + 191 deadhead) This ended up being another Hellish assignment. I started my day on Monday at 09:30 after a three-day break at home where I got done a bunch of errands and spent time with two of my kids. The drive to the shipper…

I requested home-leave time for Friday 11/14 because I had a doctor’s appointment with the retina specialist. I see him every six months. I tend to schedule my doctors appointments for a Friday or Monday that way I can have the weekend to see the kids. My CDL and hazmat endorsement expire in February 2026,…

ROUTE: Canton, MI to Fishkill, NY: 731 miles (630 miles + 101 deadhead) I had requested home-leave for Friday 11/14 as I had a doctor’s appointment at 10:15 and had other errands to do. I always set up my doctors appointments on a Friday or Monday so I can see the kids on the weekends.…

ROUTE: Baltimore, MD to Portland, MI: 704 miles (612 loaded + 92 deadhead) What should have been a routine assignment turned into a Hellish one. I started Monday 11/10 at 06:00 with a Dunkin Donuts’ coffee, bagel and munchkins. My delivery was a just over an hour away and the delivery appointment was set for…

ROUTE: Belleville, MI to Martinsburg, WV: 517 miles (457 loaded + 60 deadhead) My previous assignment ended with a delivery in Port Huron, MI. From there I was instructed to pickup a load in Centerline, MI headed to Fishkill, NY but I was suppose to bring it to our terminal because the consignee did not…

ROUTE: York, PA to Findlay, OH then Port Huron, MI: 695 miles (674 loaded + 74 deadhead) This was a shitty assignment, but sometimes that’s the luck of the draw. The miles were good the problem is that it was two stops and each one would take two hours to unload. The bigger problem was…

ROUTE: Salem, MA to Chambersburg, PA: 509 miles (454 loaded + 55 deadhead) This assignment was brutal. It wasn’t the distance but driving small country roads going through towns where cars are parked on the side of the road with barely enough room to get by. Sharp turns at night where it’s hard to see…

ROUTE: Blissfield, MI to Plymouth, MA: 877 miles (800 loaded + 77 deadhead) This assignment can be done in one-a-half days but I was picking it up on a Friday and the delivery was scheduled for Monday at noon so I could push the hours and do a 34 hour reset at my home base…

ROUTE: Lock Haven, PA to Southfield, MI: 647 miles (429 loaded + 218 deadhead) The pickup was schedule for 23:30 but it was a loaded trailer and was ready. The problem was that I had already driven four-and-half to drop the previous load and there was a three-and-half hour deadhead drive. I had driven eight…