I pulled a choke pick this morning at 8am when the clerk called for my choices for our new twelve week pick. It appears that I'll be keeping my weekends off, but it looks like I'm going to have to learn how to be a morning person for a while.
Another quiet night on the 46 tonight. I had load-groaning-noises-guy again. The most interesting thing that happened
was this CP railroad crossing that I got to wait at for a while. A long while. 30 minutes after I showed up these guys showed up:
Another 10 minutes one of the St. Paulice helped me back up about 150 yards so i could go around the block, and just then the train started rolling. I still had 2 passengers that hadn't given up and tried the long walk down to W. 7th St. (probably half a mile), across the tracks, and back again as far as their apartments are, so I waited until the crossing was clear instead of trying to find my way around the side streets of St. Paul. Another 7 minutes and I'm on my way. 49 minutes late. After a scheduled 20 minute layover that consisted of me driving around a block without any laying of the over, the I waited for the still-rolling-at-ten-mph train for another 5 minutes. I read a lot tonight.
Comments (5)
Those trains are the only bad thing that can happen on the 46. Well, the trains, and A Baker's Wife sometimes runs out of donuts...
Vacation hold downs aren't so bad, are they? I was a bit surprised (as was Kim) that you took that, but I figured you knew what you were doing. ha.
So do only drivers with higher seniority get to pick their vacations during the second half of the year? Is that how you know you'll end up with weekends off and early-morning work?
Posted by Crackity Jones | August 23, 2005 1:25 PM
Posted on August 23, 2005 13:25
yeah the list of each week's vacation is posted and updated with the rest of the pick. it's way down to the right. i didn't look in detail but there's a lot of 3 digit driver numbers, SS off, and run numbers less than 1090. i think i really fucked up since i have a 9am class on fridays. well see. there's a lot of 10 hour runs with fss off too
Posted by ryan | August 23, 2005 1:41 PM
Posted on August 23, 2005 13:41
well, look at it this way Ryan, you're gonna have to become a morning person in January anyway right? This is just practice...but without changing daipers or feeding someone.
Posted by ben | August 25, 2005 10:53 AM
Posted on August 25, 2005 10:53
yeah i'm gonna have to be a 24-hour party person
Posted by ryan | August 25, 2005 12:39 PM
Posted on August 25, 2005 12:39
you still have weekends?! oh goody! keep us on fer sunday nights, friend!
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Posted by yourBelle | August 25, 2005 9:09 PM
Posted on August 25, 2005 21:09