DG: Arrived on time, as usual. We were just 30 miles from our stop and at 4:00 am there is not much traffic although being as we are in Atlanta there is always some traffic.
I ran my clock out yesterday so have to call logs this morning and get that straightened out. Got to the receiver and there was some discussion amongst the powers that be as to where to dock me for unloading. At first I was told to wait until the truck that was in door 36 left and pull in there and then I guess someone realized there were about 20 other empty doors on this side of the building so intelligence prevailed and I was told to pull in the door beside that guy. Good thing to because he is still being unloaded and I have been done and gotten my paperwork about fifteen minutes ago. I’m sitting now waiting for my clock to reset. Boy how I would like to take a Congressman along for a ride sometime and let them see the time that is wasted adhering to their stupid regulations. 17 more minutes and I will be able to legally drive to the terminal in Morrow where I will be able to sit even more. I sit for a living. Sometimes I’m moving and sometimes I’m not. Right now I’m not. But I am sitting. Oh, and no load yet. The planners don’t get in until 7:00am Central Time. I’ll wait. Sitting. Of course.
Came to Morrow yard. There is a trailer sitting here that needs to go to Salt Lake City. Sounded good. 1800 miles. However it does not deliver until 4/7 and receiver will not accept it early. That’s four days of sitting around so we had to decline that one. Now we wait. Here I am waiting.
Annie – Sat all day. All day we sat. Time to turn in. Have a trip to Oklahoma in the am. Goodnight y’all.
DG: Yes, sit we did. For sitting is what we do. We sit and sit and sit some more for sitting is what we do. Do. Do. We sat.
Now we sleep so that we will have strength to sit. Sleep, sleep, sleep.
Good night you all and God bless.
Hills Over The Road 
Take the Congressman in on this one too:
FAA to the Rescue! Not.
I should note that contracting in the Part 135 world is a bit harder than it used to be. In the old days, if you were typed and current on an aircraft, you could fly for any charter company that operated that kind of plane. It wasn’t uncommon for a contract pilot to fly for several operators. A few years ago — for reasons no one has been able to adequately explain — the FAA essentially did away with that capability.
Today, a five-figure recurrent only entitles you to work for the certificate holder under whom you trained. It doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran of ten years and 10,000 hours in a Gulfstream IV; if you went to recurrent on Company A’s OpSpec, as far as the FAA is concerned, when you move to Company B you are completely unqualified to operate a G-IV on any Part 135 flight until you’ve been through another recurrent… at your own expense, of course.
Government just cannot get a hold of this “common” sense thing….
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