Wells, NV

Got here yesterday packed with 43k. I get to the reciever and the first thing he tells me is that he won't let his guys in my trailer and doesn't have a dock.

The load didn't pay well to begin with, and now I'm supposed to unload over half of it manually? For free?

The guy in charge here said that he specified a tailgate load, right? OK, so the shipper just ignored that and negotiated based on a typical industry-standard no-touch load, and stuck Korena and me with it.

This is bushwacking. I had to do it, or just sit there with half the load in my trailer indefinitely. And it was backbreaking labor--the soft materieals and projections between the pallets bound and hung up. I'm stronger than average--a lot of drivers could never have got it done. I mean, I was launching myself physicly to shake stuff loose! Hell, I couldn't have done it if I wasn't overweight!

Rediculous! Korena says she'll take care of the pay part, but she over-promises. That's a new negotiation and she lacks leverage. We'll see. THAT driver assist was freaking priceless, dammit.

Wells this time of year is colder than hell. It's in a wind-tunnel formed by the Rockies. I'm sure that the original settlers were people who wanted to be alone and didn't want to fight for land. Tough, though. Tougher than hell.

You can't grow anything, and there's not enough to feed cattle. It's really pretty, in it's way, but inhospitable.

Not the people, though. I'm at the Motel 6. Went to the casino last night and accidentally won 50 bucks fooling around with the video poker thing at the bar. I had two drinks and fled with a to-go dinner. Which was good.

I'd normally have wanted a pickup today, but dammit if Korena didn't burn up my hours! First time that's happened to me in years (ps running out is a good thing. It means your running hard and making money).

I din't think they could do it, since I know where all the wormholes and temporal distortions are! I could have kept going in a different situation, but here I'm at one end of a pendulum-swing, and will be again running full-tilt all day every day when I resume, and that would shut me down.

So I shut myself down for 34 hours here.

Korena gets that, and is lining me up for a lucrative Jerome, ID-to Florida load tomorrow.

Good. I don't want to cross Wyoming again--I think it's going to snow, and there's a big section of it that gets drifted under (another wind tunnel). I can take a more southerly route to FL.

Close to checkout time. I'll hang out in my truck til my 34 is up, then get to Jerome tonight. I'll load then if I can, and get a night's sleep, or will be all set for a morning load.

Finally set up periodic transfers from my corp-to-personal account. I owe myself 26k that I loaned the Corp. to buy the truck and APU...maybe more, I'm not sure. Finally got a small safety margin in the Bus. account. Finally on my feet again.

OKbye