Sumner, WA

So much has gone on that I haven't blogged about, but all that in a nutshell is that we talked to a driver we met at orientation and he said I should call our orientation co-ordinator and talk to him about our situation. We did and it's all set up to switch terminals. I just have to have our current driver manager call him and set it all up.

I think this will allieve us of a lot of the headaches and stuff that's making us hate this job and be on the verge of quitting.

Think of this, 95% of our runs were in the northwest, which is all mountainous, which we're used to by now, but it's also all bad weather and busy and non-stop mountains, ice, snow, rain, wind.

So we asked to switch terminals, which was our original plan anyway. He said it's frowned upon, which makes me wonder why he said we could before. So we compromised and he put us in a comfort zone.

The first time he said he'd do it, he didn't. We asked him again and he said he did. Now 99% of our runs are in the northwest. Then every job we get going back into our comfort zone, we have to drop in Salt Lake City and get another going back. If we question it, we just get told we need to do it. It's just so ridiculous now we had to go over him to get this done.

I wonder how he'll take it? I don't care. I want to let him know why, even though he should already know.

At first he said that we'll have to run outside our comfort zone, which we knew and was why we accepted the first runs. But all of them? The only time we've been given one in our zone was to route us back for Christmas (after refusing three runs to to the west which would have got us stuck in Wyoming or something in that snowstorm, which we almost did, anyway).

I hope things work out now, because if not, we're saving up money to get an apartment and car and quitting and moving to San Antonio.