20180227 - CA-MO
We can't get the rental car until 1 PM so we don't leave the hotel until 7:30. Not much for traffic, first stop is in Cuba two hours down the road. We get to the Blue Beacon truck wash, there is four ahead of me so it looks like it will be close to the one hour wait that I had guessed. When we were...
20180226 - CA-MO
Full, I am still stuffed from last night and I only ate half my meal. Was only going to have yogurt but then I saw SPAM, or chopped ham so I had some of that too. Cranberry juice was pretty strong, I don't think the concentrate was getting mixed. Made my calls this AM, found out where to drop, right...
20180225 - CA-MO
Left out of Albuquerque right about sun up. Not sure how close, even at the time, because the sun was already a ways up in the sky or there was a huge sun dog a ways up in the sky. But the time we cleared the hills the elevation, etc had changed so it was hard to tell which it had been. Last time we...
20180224 - CA-MO
Awake by 5:30, breakfast at 6:30. Great spread, three kinds of eggs, five kinds of dry cereal, real plates, bakery donuts. But that was the second night in a row where we've spent over $100 for a room. Ice on the windows of the bus, thought we'd be rolling by 7 AM, it was closer to 7:15. Thought I'd...
20180223 - CA-MO
Friday was a long day. No rush getting up, we can't return the rental car until 7:30 AM. Breakfast is the next door down. Good breakfast, the office and breakfast are set up in a conference room. We get ready to pull out about 7:30, scrape the ice off the windows... yes, this is in California. Peopl...
20180222 - CA-MO
Left out early to be able to get the car returned by noon. After doing a quick fuel at an Arco in Bakersfield we headed up CA-99 to Famoso and then through Wasco to Lost Hills where we caught I-5. Trees are starting to bloom, hills are turning green, it's supposed to freeze tonight... People are bus...
20180221 - IA - CA
Left out before daylight. Sign said breakfast from 6-9, so we had bought breakfast at Loves last night. And when we checked out this AM at 6, people were in eating breakfast so no idea how long it had been open. Most places first light is about a half hour before sunrise. Out in the desert you can s...
20180220 - IA-CA
Wanted to head out by 6:30, but breakfast wasn't until 6:30 and it wasn't out any earlier. So we had our stuff out in the RV's and waiting, had to plug in the toaster. One of the last things he did was unlock the yogurt. That's all I ended up having for breakfast. No meat today, garlic bread instead...
20180219 - IA-CA
Up and ready before breakfast was ready. We were down at 6:30, but half the food wasn't out and still wasn't by the time we were done eating. May be windy again today so we want to get an early start. And we also may be able to get more than 500 miles today and make up some time. For some reason my...
20180218 - IA-CA
WIND No free breakfast at this place, so we might try the Quality Inn across the street next time. Breakfast buffet is $13 each. I'm not hungry, if I had seen the soup on the menu last night, that is all I would have gotten. Instead I ended up with a quarter pounder. BB has looked at the weather and...
20180217 - IA-CA
At breakfast this AM I noticed the sausage was about room temperature so I told the breakfast help. They took care of it right away, someone had shut the temp off on the warmer. At 7:59 we started calling in, but the phones weren't working right so instead of being busy they would go to someones voi...
20180216 - IA-CA
No write up for yesterday, we sat home all day. Sat home again today watching the board, at some point they have to start putting huge numbers out there. They did put out about double today but nothing we wanted. We had talked about heading down at noon but that sounded better earlier, once it got b...
20180214 - CA-LA
As we were sitting eating breakfast near the lobby, a call come in to the front desk. Someone had forgotten their log book in their room. My first thought was... 'if you'd quit talking and let the person off the phone, they could go check.' Your log book is supposed to be updated every time you star...
20180213 - CA-LA
Older notes... coming across the southern states somewhere we saw a cloud of dusk I thought was coming from someone driving down a dirt road. Turns out it was from a train car leaking something. I had thought of calling, but up ahead there was a crew working on a switch, I'm guessing they would noti...
20180212 - CA-LA
Food was great last night, but maybe too much of it? Neither one of us slept very good. First call was to the office to find out why I couldn't use my company fueling card. We got that cleared up right away, just more numbers to remember. Half hour down the road we stop and fuel at a Loves in Goodwo...
20180211 - CA-LA
Good news. The ice warning that was for this morning has shrunk and we shouldn't hit ice until Dallas. One phone is routing us one way and the other another. We take the route BB's phone says because there is a truckstop with a good price on fuel. BUT that is when things don't go so well. I've had t...
20180210 - CA-LA
When I checked out this AM, the desk clerk asked the usual 'how were things?' So I told them I wasn't happy paying for one of their better rooms and not having any WiFi for two days. Someone in the parking lot started talking to BB as she was walking around. Another couple that does driveaway. He ha...
20180209 - CA-LA
My day off. I've spent some time the last couple of days looking at how much less we make on diesel units vs gas. Finally today I call a number that is listed about fuel. I've seen the charts but never checked them out. I wish I had called earlier, we could have been saving about 10% on fuel if we u...
20180208 - CA-LA
Headed out at daylight, one of the other trucks were already gone. I looked at a lot of options for getting my permit printed, then when I went down in the morning the person at the desk said 'no problem.' So a little time wasted for nothing. First stop is about an hour down the road at the AZ port...
20180207 - CA-LA
Because we can't lock the bus, we have to haul all of our stuff in every night. Two trips, we do not travel light. I thought the desk clerk had said breakfast at 6 am, but the doors were still locked at 6:30 when we got down there. BB rang the buzzer and woke the guy up. He puts stuff together as we...
20180206 - CA-LA
Written one day later, some things may have already been forgotten. Left out at first light. There is a restaurant on-site so no free breakfast. But we did have a couple of apples that we needed to get rid of before entering CA so that was breakfast. Starting out we had about 100 miles to spare of f...
20180205 - IA-CA
Up and going at very first light, just enough to see the outline of the mountains against the sky. Gets light very quickly though. Stopped after an hour at a rest area to order our 2nd NV permit. Wasn't sure if there would be cell service in the middle of nowhere but there was. Someone has to pay do...
20180204 - IA-CA
Usually BB is pretty quiet when she gets up, not this AM. Yesterday we were shut down because of the wind. Forecast was for the roads to open sometime mid-Sunday. We had finally checked in after noon and at about 4:30 they dropped the restriction so we would have been free to go. But we were already...
20180203 - IA-CA
BB was up before 5 local looking at the weather. IF'y. We had planned on heading out by 6:30 but decided to wait and call dispatch to see what the guidelines were. I did that at 7 AM. We are to shut down with winds at 30 mph. Forecast is for gusts up to 60 mph but the weather stations are all report...
20180202 - IA-CA
Left out of Omaha a little after daylight. Some of the trucks in the lot had been running all night. But not MN weather. We fuel at the BP/Buckey's next door, cheapest fuel we find for a ways on Gas Buddy. 90 miles later we stop at a rest area near York. No water, no signs that say no water, the onl...
20180201 - IA-CA
Up and go. It's -1 when we get going this AM. An hour later it is up to 0, by the time we are done with our meeting it is +1. Great warm up. Safety meeting was about two hours long. Lots of the same old, same old we hear every time. This time I noticed as they were showing data that the total units...
20180131 - IA-CA
We are off again. We were up before 8 AM so we could grab a run as soon as the office opened... and then didn't. We decided to wait for something that got us out of the snow, like southern CA. Within the hour, they added two going to El Cajon, down near San Diego. I called, and they talked us into t...