Fuel for Thought

Overdid it...

         Well, the run that I had scheduled for Thursday night, didn't happen. After we left the airport, I started feeling kinda ruff, but tried to go on thru it, ya know how guys do LOL.  Went home and went to bed, trying to shake it off, but as the time to leave got closer, the ruffer I felt.  Finally, I gave in and called dispatch to ask them to remove me from the run.  I hated to do that, as it was a good run, but there was no way I was safe to drive 11 hours feeling that bad.  Dispatch was very understanding, and since the run still had almost 3 hours before pickup (it was a transfer load from another driver).. they were confident they could cover it.

      So I hit the sack, and concentrated on me... today, still not really better, so off to the doc... but, nothing really wrong!  Apparently, with all the running we've done lately, getting kid ready to fly, stuff around home, plus trying to run a business, I was just exhausted and dehydrated. So, out of service, just recovering. Didn't really realize we had been running so much til I look back over the past couple of weeks.

PS... these last couple of blogs were posted late, sorry!  Sometimes I write them up, then forget to post them!

Dale is a solo van owner operator for FedEx Custom Critical, and can be reached with comments at [email protected] or by using the comments section below.