Today I sit in Baltimore, Maryland after delivering here last night. I picked up a load in West Virginia, 2 drums which weighed just over 1000 lbs total making for a nice ride. I had a pretty smooth ride, and the roads had been cleared the whole way... which was good... as in Northern West Virginia and Maryland, I passed some ridiculous snow piles, and drifts. Some places still had not dug out. I took this pic near the Maryland border, of two dump trucks that were still buried.
In some places, snow was piled higher than my van, and to leave the fuel pumps felt like I was driving down a hall way! I couldn't see anything on either side of me but snow.
The flip side of it was driving thru some areas that the snow had already melted due to the recent warm up (high 30's, 40's in some areas). The large amount of snow melting on alraeady saturated ground, turned many areas into mudpits. So instead of looking nice and green, there were just huge brown swampy areas. Not purdy LOL.
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02 Mar 2010, 13:21
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08 Mar 2010, 08:02
I am SO over snow LOL.. definately ready for Spring!
Scott,
It does seem to work that way for me. I've had a couple trips to the deep South, but most of my runs tend to be, as you said, East of the Mississippi. Part of that is being based out of Columbus, OH, and the fact that I do go home more than some drivers. A lot of freight crosses thru my home area, so if I'm within a couple hundred miles or so of home after delivering I usually go home. FedEx dispatches single van drivers a little differently than some.. we will only get offered up to 700 mile runs, because they want them to be able to go straight thru.. longer ones will usually go to teams, unless it's a weekend, with longer del time. Now granted, once you're out 5-700 miles, you will sometimes get offered those going further away... but usually I'm fortunate enough to get something going back the other way, and within a few days, back thru Ohio. Being in Chicago would be an excellent place to get freight out of (probably one of the best for FedEx, ) and a lot goes back there too. You may not get home every few days.. but every week or two you would probably get thru there.
