Beaumont Boondoggle

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Yesterday I filled up the tanks at Goodman with Freon. So I knew that my second load today was going to be canceled. So when Jeana asked me to pick up an empty trailer in Beaumont, and bring it back to the yard, I accepted it.

That would fill up my work week, and maybe keep Cole Nelson off my back for working the weekend. I thought it would be a quick easy load, and it kind of was, but a little bit of an adventure!

I started my normal time at the yard. The first check to see if my truck was fixed. A fender bracket on the tractor was broken off and needed to be replaced. John the shop manager in the evening, said he would check to see if he had the part available. Apparently he didn't and had to order it.

So Gina had given me a tractor to take this morning. It's a sleeper truck, 17-1362. They just had someone come out to detail it. It has over a half million miles, so I guess they cleaned it up to sell it. Tractor was still on the fuel Island, I headed off to Beaumont, Texas.

Actually it's Goodyear in Cheek, Texas. Cheek is a small town just before Beaumont. Goodyear has a plant there, and Trimac Transportation has a yard inside it. I was sent there to pick up one of two trailers that were empty there. What are the trailers still had a truck hooked up to it, so I took the other one. That one was, 49-3031.

But the plant is off I-10, and that's all tore up for construction! The normal exit, Smith road, no longer exists. Also the service road no longer exists. I had to drive past the plant take the next exit. Turn right and went to the road that runs behind the plant. I took that road, and there was no entrance for the plant!

So I took a right on the first road after the plant. It welded around till it look back around the same road. So I called Gina to see how I can get to the plant. She didn't know. I called Judy, she didn't know either. We run dozens of loads out of there every day nobody knows how you get in there!

So I turned around and went back to the road and runs along the back of the plant. Stopped in the business near it. The middle aged white man walked up. I pointed to the plant across the street. I asked him how do I get to that plant! You gave me directions.

Apparently when they tore up the service road and the exit, They just didn't think he was necessary to put in a temporary exit. They also didn't think it was really necessary to put any signage along the road so that people could find the plant. So I finally got into the plant and got the trailer.

Coming back I thought I'd save a few minutes by going down highway 99 around Baytown, Texas. I found out the hard way that the whole road is under construction! So I think I finally had my fill of construction today!

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