I was delayed at the last customer for almost four hours, before getting to my next place to pick up. Trying to adjust my planned arrival to the next delivery can be daunting for me, until I really am loaded and ready to roll. This was going to be one of those days where I feel more pressured to get to a routine (and every so often a routine means something different). Once loaded, I rolled as far as I could before fueling, and then looked to create that “routine”. The load was going to Michigan, and I was going to have to stop for the night in Franklin, Kentucky, and find another stay over along the way.

It has been a very constraining Contract (my opinion only). Typically, an Independent Contractor can roll and run their own schedule their own way. For me, this contract was already long, and with only several weeks left, I am waiting for the whole thing to unravel, and fall to pieces. The type of contract I signed onto only allowed four days off a month, which was just enough time to go home, get bills and roll again. Over the last two years, I have passed several family members’ hometowns, with no way of stopping in, since the time to deliver and be ready for the next load held priority. So many times they would ask, “When will we see you?” All this, by others, just to own a truck.