One of my many duties at the compound is coordinating the "live-floor" trailers and trucks which haul the seed block or breeding seed. These trucks are equipped with trailers that convey or walk the load off.

For several years I have used primarily one company out of Lubbock. This company has been pretty good to work with until lately. On several occasions I have caught the dispatcher not being totally honest with me. This past weekend the dispatcher was going deer hunting. In fact he left Wednesday or Thursday, but he told me he would have his phone with him if I needed to book trucks. Friday and over the weekend, I left him messages on his personal cell phone and on the company truck's Northstar system, but he never returned a call. Last evening Frank, the plant superintendent, called me wanting to talk. We had to either make alternate arrangements or cancel if our regular truck provider was not available. I called the dispatcher one last time and he didn't answer. Then just as I was returning to the office to talk with Frank, my phone rang. It was him and he told me he had received no messages, no indication of my having called any of his numbers. I went ahead and told him what we were wanting to schedule and he told me he couldn't do it until mid-week. What he didn't know and doesn't to this time, is that I had been talking around him when I couldn't get hold of him, and I learned from this source that the dispatcher is at odds with this particular seed breeding company over pay issues and is no longer hauling for them until these issues are properly addressed. I can understand his dilemma, but I am a third party contact that has no agenda other than needing a truck. If he isn't going to work for that particular vendor, more power to him, but don't lie to me!

And that's all I have to say about that.

Krl and I tried to leave the compound to go buy milk and pickup a pizza in Stanton. We have one idiot truck driver who has a problem any time we leave the compound. Yesterday was no exception. When I returned I did a farmer fix to his rig even though I had already made arrangements for a new part to come on a bale truck. After investing over an hour, this jackass told me he would just wait for the new part.

Hey if I had known that I would have stayed in my trailer and enjoyed my pizza while it was hot!

Well, Krl is waiting. Got to go to the bank.

Have a day!

Oh FATHER, help!