191214 CA-MN
Back home... will start filling in the past write-ups. 1st stop, Clear Lake at Pilot for fuel and logbook (no logbooks) 2nd stop, Kwik Star (Kwik Trip) in Garner for logbook (none) 3rd stop at lot to pickup car 4th stop, Kwik Trip in Owatona, no logbooks a few more local stops and then home to shove...
191213 CA-MN
1st stop, RA near Kearney, NE 2nd stop, Omaha at Flying J for fuel and Arby's to eat. 3rd stop just North of Des Moines on I35 at RA. 4th stop in Story City at the Pizza Ranch to eat and Comfort Inn for the night Have local work lined up for Monday. <<<<<<<<<<<<&l...
191212 CA-MN
1st stop RA at Evanston, WY 2nd stop Loves in Wamsutter 3rd stop at Iron Skillet /Petro in Laramie 4th stop at RA in Pine Bend, WY 5th stop in Ogallala, NE. Walmart for fuel, McD's to eat, Quality Inn for the night. <<<<<<<<<<<< (Being written up a few days later)...
191211 CA-MN
More mistakes, this time our fault. Still heading home. 1st stop Flying J, Fernley, NV 2nd stop TA Taco Bell, Mills City 3rd stop Sinclair, Elko 4th stop RA Wendover, UT 5th stop Arby's and Comfort Inn, Tooele, UT At this pace we should be home Saturday AM. Won't leave out again until close to the n...
191210 CA-MN
Backpack stolen, computer and legals needed to drive. So heading home on a rental car. Going to make very little if anything this trip. May not post again until I get a new computer. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< (The following is written up a few LONG days lat...
191209 CA
Still no work. Went down and ate breakfast, then finally got going just before checkout at 11 AM. When we left Morgan Hill, we drove right past the RV dealer we have dropped at. I even picked out the motel we stayed at. Nope. I was able to find the trip write-up. We did deliver there but had not sta...
191208 CA
Weekend day two. Could have slept better, damaging the rental car is going to bug me for a bit. Finally got up at 6:30 local. Stuck with just yogurt this AM, could have been the worrying that was upsetting my stomach, or too much food last night. Then went out and looked at the car. I was able to an...
191207 CA
We are 'waiting for work' so I am still showing this as part of the MN to CA run. No work so we have a two day re-start. Slept in until 5 AM local, don't want to get to used to this time zone. Went down for breakfast at 7 AM. We aren't the only ones here but it seems like it. This place is still re-...
191206 IA-CA
RV from IA to Davis, CA... delivered. No bus today or over the weekend. No alarm today... so we were both up by 5. Ate breakfast and then sat in our room until 9 AM. This has worked out good the last couple of trips. Stay in Rocklin, about 30 miles before the drop. Wait until rush hour is over and d...
191205 IA-CA
Got the remaining RV from Wendover, UT to Rocklin, CA today, BB is just along for the ride. Breakfast wasn't until 6:30 local so we slept in, kind of. First thing I hear this AM is the TV from the guy in the next room. It was also the last thing I heard last night. Not loud, just on. Breakfast was t...
191204 IA-UT-CA
2 RV's, dropped one today in UT, will drop the other one Friday in CA. Nothing boring about today. Alarm went off at 4 AM, BB was already up and I was already awake. This place has a box of 'to go' breakfasts, haven't seen that other places. We had seen it here yesterday so we knew it was available....
191203 IA-UT-CA
7 AM. Yep, roads closed and we are sitting. The roads were open last night by the time we went to bed up closed again by the time we got up. So we wait. As we sit we have time to look at our load board. Last week we had the chance to take 2 RV's to the Carolina's. Now today they have another truck c...
191202 IA-UT-CA
<<< Photo <<< AM UGGGH Weather had forecast that I-80 would be closed (except for car) for 12-14 hours. We thought it was to start at 5 AM, but nothing yet. That will delay my drop but not BB's... if that's the only delay. PM We are shut down in Laramie, WY. Forecast says we will s...
191201 IA-UT-CA
2 RV's, one to UT, one to CA... got as far as York tonight. Not much updates on the weather map this AM but we are assuming everything will clear by the time we get there. We are likely the first people down for breakfast at 6 AM. It's Sunday so there is bacon. That does seem to be the routine. The...
191130 IA-UT-CA
See 'PHOTOS' for a bus I haven't driven, but have been asked to. Two RV's leaving Sunday, one for UT, one for CA. The usual dilemma for work. Things change as we watch. Called into dispatch on Wednesday before Thanksgiving for work leaving Monday. But for the first time since I've worked there, they...
191121 CA-PA
Heading home... We were running an hour later today, to get back on our own time zone. Down for breakfast at 7 AM and rolling by 7:30 East coast time. Breakfast was eggs, sausage and yogurt. Mostly 'lite' again, but a couple of cups of an off brand that were not lite so I got one. 1st stop was a few...
191120 CA-PA
WE HAVE HEAT. It's in our car and we have it cranked up:) New Columbia to Williamsport... then to Maumee, OH and heading home in a rental car. There ended up being two runs heading back if we would have had time. One from here in PA back to IA, the other was 400 miles from here but the drop was 30 m...
191119 CA-PA
We froze. Flint, OH to New Columbia, PA... almost there. The lot did NOT fill up last night. But easier to get the early people to move than those that come in in the middle of the night. People parked across the parking spots across from me so no one was going to back into me. Breakast, large pre-m...
191118 CA-PA
Pontoon Beach, IL to Flint, OH... heading to Williamsport, PA Read bad news this AM. Petro-TA where we like to eat the buffets is converting it's restaurants to IHOP's. No more buffets at truckstops. First it was Flying J, then in the midwest it was Kwik Trip and now the last one. No other major cha...
191117 CA-PA
Oklahoma City to Pontoon Beach (E St Louis) with a 40' bus. Down for breakfast at 6 AM, 1st people down again. Sunday, they have bacon. So I still have both bacon and eggs... and yogurt. Am not really back to doing one or the other yet. Parking lot lights must be based on time, not light. They went...
191116 CA-PA
Moriarty, NM to Oklahoma City... heading to Williamsport, PA. Breakfast was the usual, except for the host. The front desk person was putting out the food and he had on a three piece suit. They also had a yogurt machine... he said they had gotten it because they had won the 'Gold Award' for their ch...
191115 CA-PA
Made it to NM... have decided not to try to make delivery Tuesday so we don't have to push as hard. (NOTE: This write up is being done a couple of days after the fact, finally have time) Up and going before daylight. This place plugs they have REAL scrambled eggs and yes, I can tell the difference....
191114 CA-PA
Santa Nella to Kingman... on our way to Williamsport, PA with a city bus. Breakfast was the same as yesterday. No other drivers here last light. 1st stop at the rest area in Coalinga. Other than being really dry, there is not much new from the last trip six months ago.... When we came out from the r...
191113 CA-PA
We are heading to Williamsport, PA with a bus... Livermore to Santa Nella tonight. Not up and down for breakfast quite as early as yesterday but still one of the first people down. Bus that came in last night when we were walking for food is still here so they aren't in a big rush. Still stuffed fro...
191112 IA-CA
From here to no where. We still don't have a run. Mostly staying on our time, eating breakfast as soon as it is supposed to open. We were down before the hot food was out. Not sure what happened here, but sometime last year we were here and most rooms were NA because they were being remodeled. Now t...
191111 IA-CA
Rocklin, CA to Davis, CA... or not. Then to Livermore, CA. Breakfast, not quite as much as yesterday, no bacon but they did have biscuits and gravy and maybe they did yesterday and I just didn't notice. Apple juice still wasn't working so I told today's help. They looked at it for a while but not su...
191110 IA-CA
No miles and still not enough time to do a write-up? We were down for breakfast close to 6 AM when it starts... 8 am our time. Breakfast, apple juice option was straight water, some of the bacon was just how I like it, the fat crisp enough to melt in my mouth... but the meat was hard enough to bust...
191109 IA-CA
Elko, NV to Rockin, CA (California, not Canada) Breakfast was a little more crowded this AM than prior nights. Food was the usual, eggs, sausage, yogurt. Haven't gotten back to one or the other yet. This place had 'enhanced water,' I had the mango. Yep, it was water. Got going again close to sun up....
191108 IA-CA
Rock Springs, WY to Elko, NV Well I guess the food that sat out all day didn't kill me... not really a guess:)... seeing I'm still here. Breakfast at this place is good. They must have huge crowds some days but not today. Huge pan's of eggs, bacon/sausage and hash browns. Also, made to order omelett...
191107 IA-CA
Ogallala, NE to Rock Springs, WY... with 2 RV's Just a few issues with last nights motel. Last night we had to change rooms because the heater was stuck on high... or off. This morning at breakfast both kinds of juice didn't taste right so I passed, then I went for yogurt and it was all expired and...
191106 IA-CA
More from yesterday... when we left Clear Lake there were 2 mixers / transporters at the Kum and Go, across the street at the Pilot there were a few RVs. Did see a few others on the highway, no more of our RV's though. After we checked into the motel we went for a half hour walk. Saw a couple of DOT...
191105 IA-CA
Off to Davis, CA... just west of Sacramento on I-80. Had to stop at the clinic before we left town so we weren't in any hurry to get going in the AM. We also aren't delivering until Monday so we don't even have to do 500 miles a day and we will still have a res-set day. We get to the office about 11...
191104 IA-CA
Finally. We are back, ready to go on the road. We thought we had finished up on the last of things we had to do Thursday so I didn't work local on Friday. But sometimes the wheels turn slow and everything didn't clear the necessary hurdles until 4:30 and the offices close at 5. Not enough time to ma...
191017 ND-MN
Still not back on the road, this is just highlights from a local trip. It used to be when I was 'off the road,' I was able to get local work to fill in most days. Not this year. We have been off road since mid-April and last week was the first day I worked all week. And it is maybe the 2nd week wher...
190904 IA-MN
Alarm went off at 5 am, breakfast at 6 am. Scrambled eggs, bacon and cherry yogurt. Picked up our paperwork at 7:15. There are a lot more RV's in the lot than are showing up our board for the drivers to pick from. Managed to get our RV's checked out in under an hour. No issues. My RV was full of fue...
190903 IA-MN
It will likely be another year before we are back on the road anywhere near full time. Plan was to do a couple of back to back trips in Sep, but life has thrown us another curve ball. No. But we are doing a short one today, tomorrow. We called in this AM and got two RV's going to Brainerd, MN. So we...
190731 IA-MI
We did make it home. More later WEEKS LATER - We made it home in 24 hours from pickup. Now we will head down in a day or two to pickup our car in Forest City, IA. We did one stop in Menomonie, WI at the Taco Johns. And a 2nd to fuel. Hard to do write-ups three weeks after the fact.
190730 IA-MI
Up and down for breakfast by 6:30. Breakfast for me was yogurt. We ate way too much too late last night. I was up on the middle of the night because my stomach was still stuffed and hurt. Rolling by 7 am. 1st stop was just over two hours down the road near Battle Creek. Got to cross two scales this...
190729 IA-MI
Not sure why we didn't call in for this trip on Friday. These two RV's have been on the board for a few days, not sure what we thought we would get that would have been any better. Saturday after we had called in for the run, we got a call back from dispatch. They can't give us the runs until someon...
190727 IA-MI
Ready to go, then Opps. Heading out Monday instead of Saturday to MI. We have been off the road for about three months. If we didn't get back to work by the end of this month, we would have had to gotten another OK or we would have had to re-apply and go through re-training when we wanted to come ba...