We took off from the yard and hit the AmeriCold warehouse and headed north to North Platte, Nebraska. Unfortunately the route took us through Oklahoma but at least it was during the daytime.
[North Bound I-35 Arbuckle Mountain, Oklahoma]
The drive itself was pretty uneventful, just long. We swapped out in Phillipsburg, Kansas and Tom drove us on to North Platte, Nebraska and parked us at the Flying J for the rest of the night around 2:00am.
[Oklahoma has horrible roads, at least they are trying to fix parts of them]
I got up at 8:00am and hit the showers at the Flying J and got us on the road to our receiver. However, here is where we caught a glitch. We both knew that we were delivering to the Wal-Mart DC up there however the address we got from dispatch was to an actual store. Talk about a mess, we got to the store and of course they didn't know what to do with us. Finally we got ahold of the receiving manager and he gave us the correct address and directions to the DC.
After pissing around for an hour we finally got to the DC which was about 10 miles away and got ourselves unloaded.
Luckily for us, as soon as we sent our MT call we got another load assignment. This one was going to be a good long one.
We dead-headed 222 miles to Schuyler, Nebraska to the ConAgra meat packing facility and found out that our loaded trailer was waiting for us. So we dropped our empty and picked up the new one and took off, back to Texas :)
[The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument on I-80 in Kearney, Nebraska]
I've always said all roads at Raider lead to Ft. Worth and this one is no different. It was a multi-stop load, but we've already been informed they were going to give us another load once we got to the Ft. Worth yard and someone else would make the multi-stop deliveries.
So we are sitting here McPherson, Kansas about to switch drivers and I'm gonna get some sleep.
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