Hard running and I nearly lost my patience.
Mar 5, 2016 19:11:11 GMT -5
Post by rah on Mar 5, 2016 19:11:11 GMT -5
Ran both Monday and Tuesday. Then on Wed afternoon they called again. Team with Charlie. Vandalia terminal run. Girl told me 'You will go up to Sherbrooke, QC once and then come back'. How many times have I been told that and found out it was not the truth? It is the truth as far as they know it when they tell me, but all of a sudden things change. Sometimes I've been told that same thing and ended up working the whole week!
Anyway she told me to get right in ASAP. So I did but when I arrived I was ready for our time out running to be extended. Once I got in they weren't ready. Still trying to figure out what trailer we were to take to the Vandalia, OH terminal before we started from there for the run we were called in for. By 18:30 they had it figured out and we were on the road. Charlie took first driving shift and I went into the sleeper. Charlie drove to the Vandalia terminal and dropped the trailer we had brought and hooked to another trailer that we were to take up to Sherbrooke, QC. Sherbrooke is about 80 miles east of Montreal off Hwy A-10. Our route was up I-75 to the Ambassador bridge in Detroit over into the Canada onto I-401 and all the way across Ontario to A-20 in QC then through Montreal to the junction with A-10 and then on east to Sherbrooke, QC.
Charlie got us east of Toronto and I took over from there. Found the place and we delivered the empty containers we brought and then I went through the paper drill of accounting for each and every container and the parts it contained and documenting the information on the provided check sheets as it was put on the truck. Then I did the export paperwork and gave it the clerk at the customer to email back to the import/export division at my company. There they send the information on to a border broker who gets the border clearance. Then the broker sends that clearance back to my companies import/export department and they fax what is called a "lead sheet" to the truck stop I tell them to where we get that sheet and use it for crossing back into the US.
I got us through Montreal and back east of Toronto and Charlie took over. Then we got a call. They wanted us to do the same run again but set up a relay at the ABC yard which is just under the Detroit end of the Ambassador bridge. We met the driver there exchanged paperwork and trailers and went back over the bridge into Canada. I took over at Comber, ON and drove us back to the place in Sherbrooke, QC. I did the paper drill and accounting again there. Charlie took over and got us back to the truck stop at Comber, ON where we got our lead sheet and I took over driving.
Both loads were hot. We didn't even eat the first 28 hours after we first departed and the whole time the only seats our butts hit were the truck seats and toilet seats. So we were busting our butts to get the job done and make up the lost time and then I reach US customs and it was a little over an hour waiting and then being treated like were some kind of threat. I know that border control guy has a job to do but this one was slow and very unfriendly. What can you say when your country allows undocumented and thus illegal aliens flow across it's southern border and run free in the country. Then that country sponsers "refugees" from the Middle east from countries which produce terrorists and many of which have no documentation or forged documents. But when a native born US citizen that is a decorated veteran and was truested with a TS security clearance and had an Official government issued passport at one time tries to get back into his own country having all his paper work in order and renewed passport with microchip is delayed and questioned like he may be a terrorist?
It really is hard not to lose ones patience sometimes. Fact is the only thing that stopped me from going off on them and being in cuffs in some little room at customs in Detroit right now is the fact the load had to get through even if they unnecessarily cost us over an hour and caused us to miss our drop dead time for getting back and thus more than likely some assembly line at some automobile manufactures plant will be shut down for a time waiting for the parts we were bringing. And that is no BS because that is the kind of runs we are sometimes called on to try and salvage and they were tracking us and calling us all the time to get our ETA which usually means that is what the situation is.
Anyway she told me to get right in ASAP. So I did but when I arrived I was ready for our time out running to be extended. Once I got in they weren't ready. Still trying to figure out what trailer we were to take to the Vandalia, OH terminal before we started from there for the run we were called in for. By 18:30 they had it figured out and we were on the road. Charlie took first driving shift and I went into the sleeper. Charlie drove to the Vandalia terminal and dropped the trailer we had brought and hooked to another trailer that we were to take up to Sherbrooke, QC. Sherbrooke is about 80 miles east of Montreal off Hwy A-10. Our route was up I-75 to the Ambassador bridge in Detroit over into the Canada onto I-401 and all the way across Ontario to A-20 in QC then through Montreal to the junction with A-10 and then on east to Sherbrooke, QC.
Charlie got us east of Toronto and I took over from there. Found the place and we delivered the empty containers we brought and then I went through the paper drill of accounting for each and every container and the parts it contained and documenting the information on the provided check sheets as it was put on the truck. Then I did the export paperwork and gave it the clerk at the customer to email back to the import/export division at my company. There they send the information on to a border broker who gets the border clearance. Then the broker sends that clearance back to my companies import/export department and they fax what is called a "lead sheet" to the truck stop I tell them to where we get that sheet and use it for crossing back into the US.
I got us through Montreal and back east of Toronto and Charlie took over. Then we got a call. They wanted us to do the same run again but set up a relay at the ABC yard which is just under the Detroit end of the Ambassador bridge. We met the driver there exchanged paperwork and trailers and went back over the bridge into Canada. I took over at Comber, ON and drove us back to the place in Sherbrooke, QC. I did the paper drill and accounting again there. Charlie took over and got us back to the truck stop at Comber, ON where we got our lead sheet and I took over driving.
Both loads were hot. We didn't even eat the first 28 hours after we first departed and the whole time the only seats our butts hit were the truck seats and toilet seats. So we were busting our butts to get the job done and make up the lost time and then I reach US customs and it was a little over an hour waiting and then being treated like were some kind of threat. I know that border control guy has a job to do but this one was slow and very unfriendly. What can you say when your country allows undocumented and thus illegal aliens flow across it's southern border and run free in the country. Then that country sponsers "refugees" from the Middle east from countries which produce terrorists and many of which have no documentation or forged documents. But when a native born US citizen that is a decorated veteran and was truested with a TS security clearance and had an Official government issued passport at one time tries to get back into his own country having all his paper work in order and renewed passport with microchip is delayed and questioned like he may be a terrorist?
It really is hard not to lose ones patience sometimes. Fact is the only thing that stopped me from going off on them and being in cuffs in some little room at customs in Detroit right now is the fact the load had to get through even if they unnecessarily cost us over an hour and caused us to miss our drop dead time for getting back and thus more than likely some assembly line at some automobile manufactures plant will be shut down for a time waiting for the parts we were bringing. And that is no BS because that is the kind of runs we are sometimes called on to try and salvage and they were tracking us and calling us all the time to get our ETA which usually means that is what the situation is.