We are both up early but no need to, we can't pick up our car before 8 am.

Breakfast had bacon ... plus the other usual stuff. Oh, this room was to be over a $100 again last night but we used points because it was only 8,000. Usually the only room you can get for 8,000 points is at a Rodeway or EconoLodge (the bottom of the chain)

No work last night so I call my company in MN about 9:30 midwest time. Yes, they have a truck in Billings going to KS. But they want to check things out. But before they call back, I start to remember who the customer might be and realize it is likely a cab-over ... rough ride. They call the customer and it is a cabover so that is a no go. They also have one in Chicago going to Duluth ...

BB calls before we go to pickup our rental. No they do not have a car and likely will not have one tomorrow ... we needed to make this backup plan a few days ago. So ... we will have to go to the airport and pay twice as much. The profit on this trip is going down fast.

Before we leave I get a call back for where I plan on hosting my website. That call took quite a while. He seemed to find it hard to believe that I didn't want the best, flashiest website out there ... no, it's my personal site, and others can look at if they want to. I don't care if they can't view it on their phone and it doesn't look pretty. (and is compiled from software from a company that went out of business 15 years ago)

And before I am off the phone with him and truck shows up on our board going from West Sacramento to Buffalo, NY. I call dispatch but they can't give me all the info I want so I pass.

But as we head down the road I start remembering that dispatch will give me the phone number for this customer and I can call them myself. So we stop at a mall area and I call back to dispatch. By now someone else has it on hold for 20 minutes so we wait. I call them back, the other driver did not take it. Then I call the customer and find out it is a 'day cab.' They can be a very rough ride and not likely to have enough room for all our luggage. So I pass on this one also. By this time I have spent a good 1-2 hours on the phone and we still haven't picked up our 2nd rental car.

Because BB has 'status' with Hertz, we don't have to wait at the counter, we can walk right to the 'Presidents row' and pick any car we want. But they are all big cars with poor mileage. So we talk to someone and they show us a smaller car, but it doesn't have cruise. Finally the person helping us mentions a Toyota, it was in the row for those who hadn't made it to President status. We take it.

Then BB calls to see if we can drop the first car at the airport instead of back in West Sacramento. We can, so we drop it and walk across the lot to where our Hertz is parked.

We end up back at the Arbey's next to last nights Comfort Inn. Two gyros, but another 10 plus minute wait for our food as others behind us were getting their food ... just not our week I guess.

As we came into NV the truck inspection place was open. It is rarely open and if it is open there are 2-3 cops there. Today there were about 20 cops checking trucks ... luckily I was in a car.

Next stop is at the same Flying J in Fernly to use the restroom.

Then we eat at a Mexican place in Elko before heading to our motel. The post office in Elko does not have a street drop so we had to go inside to drop our mail ... and six o'clock at night. The building is not locked.

Comfort Inn. About $10 more than the Quality Inn, but they sold out a few hours ago before we made reservations. We could have made it another hour and a half to Wendover but decided to get off the road earlier than last night.

Next week I will be driving buses back from Crookston, take an off day on Saturday and then leave out on Sunday if there is work. Not likely to be anything to CA, it seems to go in batches and this run looks like its over.

This trip we made about 1/3 of what we did last trip. Still OK, but at this rate we need to work more days.