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, IA was a tanker going to FL. There had also been an RV going to FL that we could have matched up with it if we had needed work. The other dispatcher didn't answer until later.

Still icy when we left this AM at 7:30. Lots of sanding trucks out, lots of cars and a semi in the ditch. Nothing recent.

First stop is a half hour down the road at Pilot for fuel. I don't need any yet but it is as cheap here as we will find it so I topped off. I'm only getting 7.1 mpg. Don't think I will make a lot on this trip. While were at Pilot saw a guy walking across the field with shorts and a T-shirt on heading for the Pilot. When he got there, he stood outside until he finished his cigarette. It was a little over 10 degrees then. It looked like he had likely slept in his van parked in the field, it looked like it was a 'lived in' van.

I got flagged into a scale right before our two hour break so BB got ahead of me. I just had to cross and then back to the freeway. This RV is 22,000# so have to cross most scales. Caught up to BB just as we were pulling off. So far we have been running at 60 mph. Still lots of cars in the ditch and sanding trucks out so that's another reason not to push it. And now that we only made Moline last night we won't delivery either RV until Wednesday.

Food was going to be at Crawfordsville at Wings Etc, but when we got there, there was a note on the door saying pipe had burst and they were closed for the day. So back on the highway to the next exit and Subway at the Pilot.

From Pilot we have started taking the two lane highway shortcut to Indy. The two lane was fine, but a couple of places today trucks came over on BB as if they didn't know she was there ...

Next break was New Paris OH at the welcome center. We had talked about getting to Chillicothe yet tonight but I was doing the math and that would be long after dark and we didn't need to get that far to still make Wednesday delivery.

We ended up stopping at Englewood just before Dayton. We stay at a Comfort Inn there, and right across the freeway is a Clarion with a huge parking lot if there isn't room for us at the Comfort.

There's room, first I park in the main lot but before I get out of the RV the mailman moves so I move to a 'trucker' spot. I'm a little close to the tree but it should only be the small branches that I make contact with. Food is next door at the Waffle House, we are the only customers the whole time we are there. And we are there at 5 pm not some off hour.

Still having to use the coach battery to start the RV, if it's still an issue I will have to call dispatch before delivery. We still have about 400 miles to go, the same as we did today. I will have to put in another 30-40 gallons of gas before delivery so no huge savings on fuel this trip.

Did get ahold of the other dispatcher about trucks in Indiana, they are CBC ... cab and chassis, Autocar. The worst ride I have ever had, so I told the guy 'No Thanks.'

There had been more units out of NC but they are going as fast as they are being put out there. There had been one to CA from NC, I ran the math and we would make about $15 a day, BUT it would keep us out of the cold. Sometime after the close of business it was gone from the board. There are some short runs in South Carolina I will call on. If the pay is good we might do those until something else shows up.

40 load disappeared out of FL today, but before the day was over they added another 30 so still lots of work. But we need this to be a two way trip to make much money. We won't go broke if we had back empty but pay would be better.