It's been a long, tiring couple of days. I do NOT like using the sleeper berth split. It leaves me exhausted having to split up my downtime like that because I'm one of those people who cannot just stop and lay down and fall asleep. I have to unwind a bit, get my paperwork for the day done and then go through my emails (and maybe a bit of FaceBook). I had to use the split yesterday and of course I was so tired I ended up having to stop on the way to the next stop and close my eyes for about an hour...they had gotten too heavy to keep them open. Then add today to it and I'm ready to hurt someone over these split hours. But unfortunately dispatch put me in a position where I had no choice. I told him that I had to be parked at 7pm. So what happens? I get a load that doesn't get me to the shipper at...wait for it....7 PM! Go figure. So once I got docked, I got watch as trucks came in after me, got unloaded and leave. And wouldn't you know it...I was pretty much the only truck left in the row by the time they finally got around to unloading me and got to leave at 2am. Well...sleeper berth split again to make it legal for me to drive to a truck stop.
And this is where the miracle happens. It's a rare thing to find parking spots open after 7pm. I pulled into the closest one from the receiver and OMG! There was a spot open just beckoning me. Obviously someone up there was watching out for me. So now I get to unwind a bit. Gotta get up at 10:45 (that's the earliest legal time according to my Driver's Daily Log software). And then pass out.
So it's a g'nite y'all!
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