u/lottanadatosay

Long story short, got in an accident (semi truck driver fell asleep and hit me) 2 weeks ago today and totaled my truck (would’ve totaled me also if the truck didn’t take the beating so well). I was shuttled off to the hospital puking from a concussion. I had been on 10mgs of Valium for the past 4 years. Daily. It was only yesterday that I realized some of these “symptoms” are probably withdrawal related and not concussion related. Meds were part of the carnage of the wreck, or got stolen by police or the tow yard, I’ll never know. Accident happened in a different state than I live in, so no pharmacy would refill the Valium, not sure exactly why. I’d been wanting to stop taking Valium for the past 6-8 months anyway as the med didn’t seem necessary anymore, just wasn’t sure on the method. So, here I am 14 days later and finally sleeping a mostly full night and the tremors and other symptoms that may have been Valium related are pretty much gone. Has anyone stopped a similar dose CT and had a similar experience? Anything that could jump back up a month or two from now to be concerned about?

Hey guys and gals. Just a heads up that a big chunk of I-84 and 97 are closed to fires and of course fuel has shot way back up Wa, or and ca. just a heads up for freight in or out of Wa/Or

So pit stopped on the north side of Vegas at a bar and grill to watch the padres game. Played video poker at the bar area and won about $3500. Paid for my food and soda and tipped $20 ($35 meal). The bartender said “you do know it’s customary to tip 15-20% of your winnings, right?” I said “no, I’ve only stayed on the strip in the past. Toss a tip here and there to the craps table manager, but I don’t do slots and don’t want to be on the strip, just wanted a bite and got lucky on the video poker”. She gave me an ugly stare and I said “tell the chef the food was excellent” and left. Is this really standard off the strip? I took a life altering loss 10 years ago at hard rock and won’t sit at a table again, so I don’t know these unknown rules of video poker off the strip. I felt a 75% tip for my meal was a good tip, am I wrong?

It’s a twilight zone in the freight industry in every aspect right now. Had a driver that wasn’t responding with freight I loaded and secured onto the trailer going cross country. When he would respond, just got these extremely deranged texts. I could tell he wasn’t running his ELD, no logs at all. We could see the truck location going in the right direction…but rpms going wayyyyy up and lots of hard braking. Over 4 days, it was touch and go of whether to call the highway patrol/DOT or not. Couldn’t tell speed, only rpm and braking. 2 hour stops, drive for 20 hours…15 hour stops..he made the drop. Tried the best method possible to fire him, get him out of the truck and get the truck and trailer somewhere safe…but that backfired and scared the shit out gate security.

A 5th new person talking to him managed to talk him off the ledge and get him in an uber. Looking back, I guess the comment of “I’m a vampire and I’m out for the first blood I can find now!” should’ve been the call to highway patrol.

That’s enough for a Wednesday. Machine successfully delivered and BOL off for with invoice. My lord. Rest of the week can only get better.

Figured with highway hijacking carriers ELDs that it was only a matter of time before they had their own brokerage. Are any of you paying Highway to have your loads sent to carriers that run the lane Highway sends to the carrier? Get about 3 emails a day from Highway (and AI calls today) to cover loads with the Broker listed as Highway. I’m sure an army of ants and AI are reaching out to all those pickup and drop locations theyve captured through ELDs of carriers that allowed it to steal clients from Brokers.