1 bus going to St Louis, IL.

... spending the night in Kingman, AZ.

Other bus was gone by the time we went down for breakfast.

Good news, we can now get our AZ permits from our permit company and have them in hand before we get to the scale. But they don't have them to us before we leave this AM so we will have to pay to have them printed somewhere.

CLUNK ... I've gone out this motel entrance a dozen times and never bottomed out, but this is a short bus and I bottomed out both on the front and the rear. Guess I'll head out the other entrance next time if I remember.

And then not too far down the road, I hit a pot hole, not sure why I didn't avoid it I guess it didn't look that big. BUMP ... OUCH. I hit the hole just right that it jammed the steering wheel into my knuckles and threw the bus towards the other lane. Fingers still hurt enough that I am remembering it the next morning.

1st stop Rest areas are closed so we stop at Lovers in Lost Hills. They have their email address printed right on the ticket box so it must be usual thing for them to print from emails. I've never found any place that would do it before, always had to be faxed to them.

$2 and I had my paperwork.

Not sure what happened a mile down the road. I let a construction guy walk across the road ahead of me and I couldn't get the bus to move again. Kept trying different things and finally it went. ???

Things looked pretty much the same as a few days ago around Bakersfield and Tehachapi.

2nd stop. This short bus has a smaller fuel tank so I put in 20 gallons here at the Loves in Tehachapi before going in to eat at Subway. Picked the wrong fuel lane again. One truck was ahead of the truck in the fuel lane so I though that's why he was still sitting there not fueling. Quite a while later the driver comes out to his truck and motions that this pump is broken ... Grrr. I hate when drivers do that. The park so you can't see the cones that are blocking the pump. To them it is just a good parking spot. To me it means I just wasted a bunch of time.

While stopped I have to call dispatch, and I find out that I'm still showing as working on my last run. Took three phone calls but got that taken care of. Also called the drop, they ARE open on Monday so should only be a one day delay because of the weekend.

We just get back on the road and I see that I am down under a half a tank of DEF. I'm not going to make it to Kingman, AZ. We will need to stop again. We had thought we had the day planned for 130-130 miles but now it will be 90-150 miles.

3rd stop is at the Flying J in Barstow. One pump open so I back in as that is the only way to get DEF from the pump. And I didn't line up right so I really had to pull on the hose to get it to reach. 2.5 gallon. I have a small tank, I will need to fill ever time I get fuel.

Not good. I filled with DEF but the gauge didn't move. Problem with this new stuff is if the computer says there is no fuel or DEF, the engine won't run. It doesn't matter what is actually in the tank, it matters what the computer thinks. So we could have an issue where the computer thinks I'm out of DEF even if I just filled it.

No issues with the DEF. The tank is holding at 1/4 and I've shut the bus off, battery off, a couple of times and it is holding at 1/4. I will just need to fill every fuel fill.

4th stop is at the Wagon Wheel in Needles. Really good food. And limited truck parking.

I have my permit so I don't need to get it at the POE. The guy at the window just asks if my plate is on the rear (it is) and then I show him my permit. We are good to go.

MORE BAD NEWS. Now my widow won't close. I pull off to the side for a minute, nothing works so I drive the last hour with my window open. I have the heat cranked on high so it's not bad but I need to do something to get it closed.

5th and final stop - Quality Inn in Kingman. $30 cheaper than Needles so we did 500+ miles today.

What I did about the window was take part of it apart. Now I need to put it back together before I deliver.

At the Quality Inn, we got a lesson on how to print our own paperwork. My NM permit. If we log on to their wifi we can see their print and then just ask them to hand it to us. Now if only we can remember next time.

I'm going to need fuel in the AM so we will back track to save $.04 a gallon on 50-60 gallons. And I still do not have that companies perks card.

Up to 51 RV's on the board out of IA tonight. Looks like we will drop Monday, be home Tuesday and then we will see how fast I can get my appointments to get my DOT physical done. Once that is done we'll likely be back on the road in a day or two after that.

The rest of the trip should be under 500 mile a day. Still need to contact the inspection place. They didn't answer when I called them right before they closed. Dispatch had said (I thought) that I needed to get a level 1 inspection, this place does emissions testing. Level 1 is a complete under, over and all around the truck plus looking at all of the drivers paperwork. Not sure why they would need to see my paperwork before I delivered. Miscommunication I'm guessing but I'd better call dispatch back.