The 14-hour rule

So I'm sitting in Rochelle, Illinois yesterday afternoon after being unloaded at a nearby consignee. Ten minutes before my 14-hour clock is about to wrap up I get a phone call from our afternoon / evening dispatcher asking if I can drive about 120 miles to Oak Grove, Wisconsin and pick up a load that was sitting on their dock because another truck of ours had a breakdown.

This is the same joint that screwed me out of over 20 hours of detention pay that I mentioned in passing in the Garlic and the Bong post a few months ago. So it was not with a heavy heart that I had to gently tell him they could stuff their garlic bread.