Any One Out Trucking On Christmas Day?

Hi guys,

Any of you guys out trucking out on Christmas day today? I know I was. I didn't see to many trucks out on the road today. I was on special assignment, ran from Cleveland to our warehouse near Pittsburgh with a set of doubles and then hooked on to a volume trailer and ran back to Cleveland to do 3 stops at 3 different stores. So now I've done it all you could say ha-ha! I've done sales-service, transit and volume truck.
First time I pulled doubles ever today and it was a little weird going around corners with them.

Then pulling a big 50' volume trailer first time in a long time I pulled a big trailer like that. I never really realized how unresponsive the big trailers are when you back them, they just go straight back hardly walk anywhere unlike our 28' footers which you constantly have to correct and what ever the big trailers just go right back like nothing.

Anyhow it was fun out on the road today I would much rather be a transit driver or volume truck driver then run routes and hopefully I can get there eventually kind of like my goal and all. It was great actually had a lot of fun at work today, I had my own raging rock concert in the truck down on the Ohio and PA turnpike.

When I got on the highway I put on this tune:


It's right up there with Rush's Test for Echo as far as good trucking songs go.

Yeah Pennsylvania has big swooping hills and all that good stuff, but it all worked out well.

 

I'm not quite in the same boat, but in a boat that certainly has some similarities. Not married, no kids, no girl friend or anything like that, so I was kind of like "Roll on Christmas Day?" Sure why not? Now if it was go run a route on Christmas Day I would be like, that's kind of a drag, but transit and volume truck! Where do I sign up?

I ran the whole route on my time table nobody around I pulled into the warehouse nobody was there place totally closed up. Walked into the office, saw my paper work sitting on a table. Grabbed my paper work, went out into the yard hooked up to my trailer and took off.

Had keys to all 3 of my stops which were our companies grocery stores. GFS is the only broadline food service distributor to have it's own chain of grocery stores. I got home about 9:30pm eastern standard time really not a bad run at all, I love doing stuff that's not my usual job. If it was my regular job ehh, but when it's transit or volume truck to our stores, yeah I'll take a crack at it.

 

That was my thought yesterday when I was out on the road I thought gee you know if I have any breakdown, I'm kind of screwed the shop was closed and I was pretty much only GFS truck out on the road in our division yesterday, well more guys were running later on that night, but I was a whole day ahead of the curve.