I took a load Wednesday night for delivery Thursday morning in Metairie, LA. When I went to the D.C. to pick it up, they had added on a backhaul pickup in Baton Rouge.
The problem is that in order to make the backhaul pickup, I had to juggle my sleeper berth hours. The result was that I got the load picked up, but it threw my schedule off so I couldn't do a short load this morning to Plano. The log laws are extremely complicated, and we are electronically logged at this company, so I really couldn't cheat on it, even if I wanted to.
So, soon after I left Baton Rouge on highway 190, going west toward Opelousas, I came to a traffic jam. Very rare out there. I had seen an ambulance going that direction, and more and more emergency vehicles passed me. Turns out there was a truck and multiple car wreck at the junction with highway 1. At least one fatality.
I see online that it was caused by someone pulling out in front of another car, causing an accident, and pushing that car in front of the big truck, which jackknifed in an attempt to avoid it.
Man, I'm tired.
The problem is that in order to make the backhaul pickup, I had to juggle my sleeper berth hours. The result was that I got the load picked up, but it threw my schedule off so I couldn't do a short load this morning to Plano. The log laws are extremely complicated, and we are electronically logged at this company, so I really couldn't cheat on it, even if I wanted to.
So, soon after I left Baton Rouge on highway 190, going west toward Opelousas, I came to a traffic jam. Very rare out there. I had seen an ambulance going that direction, and more and more emergency vehicles passed me. Turns out there was a truck and multiple car wreck at the junction with highway 1. At least one fatality.
I see online that it was caused by someone pulling out in front of another car, causing an accident, and pushing that car in front of the big truck, which jackknifed in an attempt to avoid it.
Man, I'm tired.