20180126 - NC-IN
Rolling before sun up and the only rush is to just be home. Fuel is cheapest in Clear Lake even though it went up four cents since yesterday. We stop and fuel and then on to Forest City. Forest City had been closed because of the weather recently so we expected to see more snow. No, just enough to c...
20180125 - NC-IN
We weren't really good at getting going early this morning. We couldn't pick up our rental car until 8 AM, but we didn't get going until after 8 AM.... we were within walking distance of the entry gate for Kings Island amusement park. But it was the off season or we would not have been staying here...
20180124 - NC-OH-IN
Last night when I stopped it looked like I had about 1/16th of a tank of fuel, this AM I couldn't get it to move off of E. Fuel had to be still there but not a good feeling. I drove about two miles to the station and filled the tank. 50 gallon tank and I squeezed and squeezed to get 34 gallons in. N...
20180123 - NC-OH-IN
NOT a good way to start the day. No issues with the motel and we were on the road earlier than we had planned. But before we get on the freeway we make a U-turn to find a better route. Not sure if we did. It took us two hours to go just over 30 miles. We should have driven those 30 miles last night...
20180122 - AL-NC
No reason to get up early, we don't pickup our car until 8 AM. Breakfast is a little lacking this morning. No hot items. Hard boiled eggs and biscut's that needed to be nuked. And all of their yogurt was out dated but they did take care of that right away. Dropped BB off at the airport and I was on...
20180121 - AL-NC
If I don't write these up the day of the trip... almost all is lost. Stopped for a break in Thompson, GA Stopped for fuel in Lexington, SC Stopped to eat in Camden, SC at Fatz. I got the brunch burger. Stopped for a break in Rowland, NC Stopped for the night in Wilmington, NC at the Sleep Inn. Walke...
20180120 - AL-NC
Went to bed early last night, by 8:30. It was an 11 hour day but we didn't even make 500 miles, thanks to the back roads. We are up way before we have to be. The car rental place is not open until 8 AM. When I was dropping BB off at the airport, a cop pulled up beside me and rolled his window down....
20180119 - FL-AL
Early, we got up early today to try to make delivery before close of business (and dark.) Just barely getting light out as we checked out of the motel. We had checked fuel prices and the cheapest fuel was 20 miles down the road. As I start out from the stop light to get on the freeway, the gauge dro...
20180118 - FL-AL
After getting up this AM we decided to take one of the runs out of FL. The ones to TN were about two hours further so I took the AL run so that we could easily make delivery on Friday. A few minutes after 8 AM we called dispatch and got the run, as soon as they emailed my paperwork we went down to t...
20180117 - NC-FL
A bit chilly here in FL this AM, before too late in the morning we received emails from dispatch that they were closed due to the weather. They are based out of GA. We spent most of the day today on the back roads, only a twice did we get on the freeway only to get off at the next exit. Much more in...
20180116 - NC-FL
Got going before sun up, good breakfast, bacon, real eggs, even the juice tasted like juice. Third time to this location, first time we've had to unlock the gate. We had stopped in last night so we knew where the pickup was. We had to scrape frost off of our car this AM but not off the pickup. It's...
20180115 - NC-SC
Toilet not working this AM, worked last night. Might have froze, it was down below 20 this AM and the motel is up on posts over an open garage. So we used a garbage can and filled it in the tub. Other than that a great room for twice the price. I had parked on the north side of the building where no...
20180114 - FL-NC
Usual breakfast, except the yogurt was warm. Room temp, so I didn't eat it. No idea where it had been kept. No issues getting going. No frost in GA, but not too much further up the road there was frost on the roofs and in the ditches. Lots of rivers this close to the ocean. Saw a place yesterday whe...
20180113 - FL-NC
Not a long day planned but we do need to get the rental car returned before they close at 4 pm today. We get going after 7:30. Only one stop on the way down to Vera Beach at the Palm Bay rest area about 20 miles before my pickup. Got to the pickup a little after 10 am, I had told them that it would...
20180112 - NC-FL
First order of business this morning was to line up working heading out of FL. Took a few dials but I got it... them. Turns out the one coming back from FL to NC has a second leg, picking up at the same place as I drop in NC and going to SC. So a nice extra bit o money, plus IF there is work, it get...
20180111 - NC-FL
Call dispatch right away this AM for a run but someone got in ahead of me. We thought instead of sitting around half the day that we could do a short run in the AM before we picked up the van at noon. Didn't work so we sat in the motel until noon. At times we had the next two weeks planned based on...
20180110 - IA-NC
Didn't get going quite as early as we had planned but we are not on a tight schedule today. We got going about 7:45. We were about 20 miles from BB's drop and she had to stop first to put in 'final fuel.' Not much room in this dealers lot but I was able to get it backed around. It took about a half...
20180109 - IA-NC
We making progress:) 400 miles a day for two days in a row. Instead of 500 or the 600+ that I used to do. I slipped a little walking out the door of the motel this AM, didn't land on the ground this time. First stop was a few miles away in Dayton for fuel. GasBuddy says it was the cheapest... last n...
20180108 - IA-NC
I had planned on calling on a few runs this AM just so I would know what they were. The ones from NC to Walla Walla were gone before the office opened. I'm guessing they forgot to remove them last week when someone took them. I did get threw to another dispatcher, one of the trucks in Cedar Rapids,...
20180107 - IA-NC
We got going earlier than the original plan as it was warmer than we expected when we got up. After breakfast we stopped at WalMart and walked out with bags full instead of the one item we walked in for. Stopped in Forest City to fuel as to leave are car on full. Less chance of not starting? Neither...
20180106 - IA-NC
Got going early this AM, just getting light out. Woke up early and we would like to get the rental car returned today if possible. Short stops today, just north of Kearney at a rest stop. Chick-fil-A in Ankeny. Fueled at Eagleville. Picked up the car in Forest City. BB fueled the rental in Lakeville...
20180105 - IA-CA
Let's start with the not so good. A couple of days ago I was sending emails from one of my accounts and it wanted me to re-log in. And it asked for an answer to a security question. I don't remember ever setting one up. Anyhow, this AM I tried to contact the company and spent lots of time getting no...
20180104 - IA-CA
Up before we needed to, breakfast was being served, still dark out when we left the motel. First stop is the post office in Kingman, then the Flying J in Kingman for fuel. Not too much for events today, first rest area was closed so we stopped at a Flying J a few miles down the road in Bellemont. Th...
20180103 - IA-CA
No alarm today. We eat breakfast and then BB decides to do laundry so we don't need to stop home before heading out again. I had talked to our CA bus dispatcher yesterday and he was more interested than last time when he cut me off saying 'call me next month.' We had seen Atlanta buses on the way ou...
20180102 - IA-CA
We had decided to stay in El Centro instead of El Cajon to save a little money (and stay away from the homeless.) But we still wanted to deliver close to their start time in El Cajon. That meant getting up and rolling by 6 am there time. OK, that is 8 am our time but it is still dark here and they a...
20180101 - IA-CA
Rough to leave such a nice room. Missed taking a picture of the sunrise by about five minutes. But not a good day to do stuff outside, air quality warning. Really hazy as we left this AM. Didn't leave until almost noon, no big rush. Stopped 15 miles down the road at Loves to fuel, we'll see if that...
20171231 - IA-CA
Up with the sun. As we left we noticed a 'Full - No Rooms' sign on the door. We had waited and made reservations from the parking lot, it's a good thing we got a room. Yesterday I had one fuel tank where I made over 10 mpg, today the first fill is down to 9.2 mpg. I won't fill again so I won't know...
20171230 - IA-CA
Cold this AM, glad I went back out and got my gloves last night. When I told the desk clerk that all of the yogurt was outdated, they came and looked at it... tipped the ones back upright that I had flipped over and left everything in there. Other places have immediately emptied all of the out dated...
20171229 - IA-CA
We had thought of waiting until 9 AM to leave to make sure we'd miss rush hour. Ended up leaving at 8 AM instead. Rush hour? Today is Friday but traffic was as heavy as it would be on a Saturday... at 6 AM. No one is working? Did have to cross a scale in KS but they weren't flagging anyone in. Somew...
20171228 - IA-CA
Rolling by 8 AM, it is cold... and snowing. We are close enough so we don't need any rest stops so we are there in under an hour. Getting our paperwork at Forest City takes longer than usual as they need to give us some of our stuff for 2018. But they don't have updated tabs yet so we will be runnin...
20171227 - IA-CA
We have a trip - Iowa to southern CA. We are giving ourselves an extra day because of the holiday to get where we are going. El Cajon, south of LA. The work was there, it's cold here and warm there. And right now there isn't much daylight so we aren't always making 500 miles a day. Computer routes u...