Rush Hours

In Startex, South Carolina we picked up plastic pipe going to Baton Rouge, Louisianna.
Ran all night to get there early so we could get unloaded and then reloaded quick, so we could make our next delivery before the weekend.
Alas, it wasn't meant to be. We were early at the unload site, but it took them an hour and a half to unload us. Then we deadheaded 16 miles to West Side Galvanizing in Port Allen, LA, where it took them six hours to load some Galvanized Steel bound for a Refinery Warehouse in Linden, New Jersey. They finished at 3pm.
We now had 24 hours (we thought) to make a 22 hour drive.
Drove through the night again, frantically trying to make a 3pm delivery time, but despite our best efforts - bare minimum of stops, doing the full speed limit of 70 when legal - and looking at an ETA of 2:45, we found out when we got to the Pennsylvania line that the crews go home at 2 pm on Friday, and there was no way to get anyone to stay late. The contractor had no authority for overtime.
So we have decided to spend two nights at a Red Roof Inn in Allentown, PA.
We will deliver at ConocoPhillips at 7 am, then deadhead 160 miles to New Holland, PA to pick up some equipment. This is a one pick, six drop load. The deliveries start in WI (four there), then one in MN, then the final one takes us home to Salem, so even with missing delivery today, we will still get home by Friday, in time for the Spring Birthdays Party at Mom's house on Saturday.