200827 DOT
Still waiting on my DOT, kind of. I watched my info on our long haul website and my info did not get updated. Late morning I finally called the office. They kept me on the phone while the looked everything up and got me cleared. I thought. As of tonight I am still not cleared to run. I would have pu...
200826 DOT
DMV opens at 8 AM, I decided to wait until 9 AM and was kind of expecting that I would need an appointment or be sent elsewhere. The line looked long when I parked, but once I got to the line I found out that mot of those hanging around had already been checked in and were waiting their turn. Two pe...
200825 DOT
Luck? Sympathy? Timing? I PASSED on my 1st visit. I had my annual DOT physical today. BP had been under 120 the last two days, then up this AM. Up more at the Dr but came back down. Opps, I thought I was doing good on my weight this year, but looking at my DOT cards, I am up 5# from last year. I had...
200824 Covid
Not a work day. But I did play with the ELD / Electronic Log Devise. Except it is not, there is some other name for the ones that are not hard wired to the trucks and that is what we use. The ones we can use are not tied to anything, not even reality. We can change times, cities reasons, anytime we...
200822 Covid
Today was my first time in a non-grocery store in six months. I had to make an appointment to get a new phone. The stores we have gone to in the past were full up so I ended up in WI. I forgot what time I had made it for and then forgot what time it was today. When I finally looked at the clock, I s...
200821 MN-MN
2 local moves, one final destination San Diego CA, one final destination Santa Rosa CA... spending the night at home... Local dispatch had called about these trucks yesterday but they needed my signature listing all the traffic violations I had had in the last year. Formality? I'm guessing they do t...
200820 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR, delivered... spending the night at home... Breakfast... our first real hot breakfast since early March. Scrambled eggs, sausage. Could have had biscuits and gravy, didn't. Plus yogurt and juice for me. Not sure SD ever shut down, but this is our first time eating breakfas...
200819 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR, delivered... spending the night at Mitchell SD... 815 miles today... No alarm this AM. Breakfast, 2 yogurts, 2 juice cups. BB didn't like the hard boiled eggs last time here so she stuck with cereal this time. Rolling before 7 AM. Thought I knew were I was going but opps....
200818 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR, delivered... spending the night at Butte MT... We just "Cut off the nose to spite the face." Just before we stopped, BB was checking motels after we passed Butte and found that motels in Bozeman were over $100. So we turned around and back tracked to Butte. Once checked i...
200817 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR, delivered... spending the night at Kenniwick WA... Breakfast, almost the same as yesterday. Except the night before last we filled out our request when we checked in, this morning we filled out our request when we came down for breakfast. Then the person on staff filled t...
200816 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR... spending the night at Springfield/Eugene OR... We had to pick what time we wanted our bagged breakfast ready, but it wasn't. Two people standing behind the counter when we came down. I had time to walk out and look to see how the parking lot looked for cars. It was abou...
200815 IA-OR
2 RV's to Junction City OR... spending the night at Pasco WA... Breakfast... 2 yogurts, juice. BB had hard boiled eggs and cereal. Very few cars in the lot, no trucks, two pickups with trailers were parked next to us. BB finally decided not to risk it and instead get fuel for her RV here. Her range...
200814 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR... spending the night at Butte MT... BUMMER... I just completed this update, hit save and it said no internet. Lost everything I had typed. So here I go again. From yesterday... Just east of Moorcroft WY there are 100's of train engines sitting. Saw my first self propelled...
200813 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR... spending the night at Gillette WY... Morning. This place actually has hot food. Potatoes are in the warmer, the other warmer has wrapped breakfast sandwiches. But they are hot. I also grabbed my yogurt and juice. So that, plus my left overs from last nights sandwich and...
200812 IA-OR
2 Rv's to Junction City OR... spending the night at Worthington MN... Very quick stop at home. BB did our laundry, I mowed the yard. We ate some over ripe corn, a bunch of plantings of corn all got ripe at the same time while we were gone, they had been planted 10 days apart but the weather got them...
200811 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI, delivered... spending the night at Waterloo IA... No alarm. Up by 7 AM. Thought I slept good but my BP wouldn't go down. OK, but not down. The only thing worth grabbing for breakfast was two donut sticks. Sugar high, just from one. BB ate leftovers from past stays. When I...
200810 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI, delivered ... spending the night at Waterloo IA... Alarm set for 7 AM local. We were both up shortly before that. I went down to check out breakfast, not much so I just grabbed two bottles of Jucy Jucie. The good stuff. BB found a couple of things in our past extra’s bag an...
200809 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI... spending the night at Benton Harbor MI... Woke up a couple of times during the night, once to thunder, but not to our neighbors. Front desk had said they didn't want to put us on the 3rd floor because their is a 'crew' staying on that floor that comes in late. Breakfast...
200808 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI... spending the night at Edwardsville IL... Another 400 mile day for tomorrow. Breakfast, 'punch' pouches, muffin, breakfast bar. And I bought a juice from their vending area. Last night when I asked they said it would be $1, today it was $2. Bus is being noisy again today....
200807 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI... spending the night at Tulsa OK... Quiet motel, as in not much for customers. When we walked down for breakfast BB went in as I forgot my mask. BB asked about not being able to get breakfast until 7:30 when we used to get breakfast at 5:30. 'Because they (motel) have to p...
200806 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI... spending the night at Tucumcari NM... Awake and up at 5:30, breakfast doesn't start until 7. Breakfast is yogurt, fruit and pastries. Plus juice an coffee. Most places have yogurt so I'm good. Miss the eggs though. When I checked out this AM I asked the owner/manager abo...
200805 CA-MI
1 bus to Grand Rapids MI... spending the night at Holbrook AZ We finally get up at 6 AM local, no reason to get up earlier. No breakfast until 7 AM, all the work trucks are gone by then, maybe that is the reason? Breakfast is made to order, we get eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast and juice. All for $3...
200804 CA-MI
Woke up freezing, the AC in this room works. Later BB got up and decided to turn the heat on so it wasn't quite so cold getting ready in the AM. Opps, blew the circuit breaker. Easy enough to re-set, but the heater kept blowing it. Later I told the front desk about it. Breakfast? Juice or coffee and...
200803 CA-MI
2 RVs to CA, 1 to Davis, 1 to Manteca (both delivered) 1 bus to Grand Rapids... MI... Michigan... spending the night at Santa Nella CA We can't make delivery by Friday even if we maxed out every hour, every day... we would come up two plus hours short. So we are going to be taking it slow and delive...
200802 IA-CA
2 RVs to CA, 1 to Davis, 1 to Manteca... spending the night at Rocklin CA I was awake or awoken about 2 in the morning by people talking loudly in the hall. BB had heard people last night walking or exercising in the room above us. Neither of us heard what the other did so both of us got some sleep....
200801 IA-CA
2 RVs to CA, 1 to Davis, 1 to Manteca... spending the night at Winnemucca NV Breakfast - a bottle of water and an apple in a paper bag. Plus a very small Walmart muffin and a breakfast bar. Better than nothing, almost. More health issues. In the past couple of months I have un-explained large black...
200731 IA-CA
2 RVs to CA, 1 to Davis, 1 to Manteca... spending the night at Evanston WY The marquee sign says 'Hot Breakfast.' And I mentioned that to the staff this AM. They know. It hasn't been changed. This place has things in the fridge you can microwave. BB had a croissant, I had a french toast sandwich and...
200730 IA-CA
2 RVs to CA... spending the night at Sidney NE Awake during the night, sound asleep when the alarm went off. Woke up a couple more times while BB showered. Then I had to really wake up, sit up, and get ready for the day. Breakfast was the same as last time, a couple kinds of fruit, pastries and yogu...
200729 IA-CA
2 RV's to CA... spending the night at Ankeny IA Most days these write ups are done at the end of they day. For today, I am going to start by updating as things change. 8 AM - 21 on the load board 8:10 - 20 8: 20 - 18 8:30 - 15 and Jct City is gone, we no longer have a match to get west. The WA are g...
200728 MN
We are being picky today. Twice they dumped out 10+ trips within a few minutes and we passed. Tomorrow we may not be quite as picky... or we will get lucky and have an almost ideal run. We did spend most of the day watching the load board go down and then up and then up again. There are still a Jct...
200727 MN
We are looking for work, starting looking sometime on Friday but nothing Friday. Today we both watched the board at times. We were not watching it every minute like we would if we were sitting in the parking lot in IA, but we were checking it quite frequently. And if we saw something new on the boar...
200723 MN
Covid - 9 deaths in MN, the highest it's been in weeks. We did go to a drive thru today for food, it looked like everyone inside was wearing masks. May head to a nursery for supplies, the pop up ones are having their sales before they shut down and tear down but that is outdoors mostly. Med - BB fin...
200722 MN
MN Covid - More rules, wear masks state wide in public. 4 new deaths, that number is staying under 10 even as the new cases keep going up. Seems in MN that they are taking the time to make sure their are no duplicates before releasing the numbers each day. Medical. BB had another Dr visit today abou...
200720 MN
MN Covid - deaths are staying down but cases and hospitalizations are going up / back up. The fear is that the deaths are going to start climbing. Nation wide it is still big news every day. More and more stores, areas, states are requiring masks and people are hot on both sides of the issues. BB ha...
200718 IA-NE
1 trash truck to Gretna NE, delivered... spending the night at HOME. We slept in today, no alarm clock. Never did go down for breakfast but did each grab one thing on the way out.... and when I checked out I relayed how we had come to spend the night in Ankeny than Omaha. More traffic on Saturday AM...
200717 MN-MN IA-NE
1 truck from Bloomington MN to Buffalo MN 1 truck from Ankeny IA to Gretna NE... spending the night at Ankeny IA Not looking forward to this day, I like it when I plan my own day and this one is planned too tight. Alarm clock wakes us both, but we are ready before planned so we head out early just i...
200716 MN-MN
Yesterday I send a email to our local company thinking it was already Thursday, telling them I was available on Friday. Shortly after I sent the email, we got a call and had pretty much agreed to a trip before we realized we had agreed to move a truck on Thursday. But in the course of the conversati...
200714 VI R US
Loadboard Monday, yesterday US - 96 WI - 9 MN - 4 WI - 5 Covid - MN deaths are still down under 10 a day from a high of 30-40 a day. Other states are not doing as well. Cases and hospital stays are both going up, deaths and ICU are going down. We spent the weekend with one daughter and family on the...
200708 CA-IA
1 bus to Des Moines IA, delivered... spending the night at HOME. Not sure why, but didn't sleep well. Thought I had been awake most of the night, until I remembered my dreams. Breakfast for me was yogurt, BB had toast, PB and fruit. Someone ahead of me at the juice machine was filling their used con...
200707 CA-IA
1 bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Ankeny IA Almost 10 hours sleep for both of us. Day eight of our road trip. We both slept good. Lots of stuff in our breakfast back this AM. Some places give us our breakfast in a sandwhich zip lock bag. Others do the lunch size bags, this place had th...
200706 CA-IA
1 bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Kearney NE BB didn't want a bag breakfast, she had left overs. We are getting a pretty good stash from all the breakfasts:) I did get the bag, with muffin's and apple sauce. BB is looking at our loadboard this AM and somehow gets on something she hasn'...
200705 CA-IA
1 bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Laramie WY Stuff from earlier in the trip. Yesterday there was something on the side of the road that hadn't been there two days before. It looked like maybe a semi trailer that had been burnt into two parts? I think the only wildlife we saw in two day...
200704 CA-IA
1 bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Wendover UT Last night... after I shut off the lights, I decide to look out the window at my bus. Except tonight we aren't overlooking the lot like we were last night. So I turn around and start walking across the room. WHAM... I walk into the coffee t...
200703 CA-IA
2 RV's to Newark CA, delivered 1 bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at MIDNIGHT... LOUD TALKING IN HALL WAY. Things are getting back to normal:( Then later I heard what I thought was someone moaning. Finally I thought it may be BB breathing and as I listened I realized that the 'moaning' wa...
200702 IA-CA
2 RV's to Newark CA... spending the night at Rocklin CA Breakfast, choices are yogurt and Ding Dongs. We both choose the yogurt. When we are down for breakfast I tell the gal at the front desk how good the food was from the food truck that parks in their lot. She knows, she baby sits one of his chil...
200701 IA-CA
2 RV's to Newark CA... spending the night at Wendover UT The night before last in Lincoln we debated walking to get food because it felt like 95 degrees. This AM it is 39 in Laramie WY. Ran out and got my jacket early so it could warm up before I needed to wear it long term. Breakfast was a grab bag...
200630 IA-CA
2 RV's to Newark CA... spending the night at Laramie WY Squeek... bump... BUMP... squeek... It seems that the person/people above us decided to do their exercises at mid-night. We both had been in a dead sleep and did get back to sleep at some point. Breakfast was... yogurt, juice and leftover fried...
200629 IA-CA
2 RV's to Newark CA... spending the night at Lincoln NE No alarm, we were up before 6 AM. Last night the sun was still up when we went to bed, had to try to get it as dark as possible in the room to get some sleep. Breakfast was juice and a muffin for me, plus my yogurt from the store. BB only ate h...
200628 IA-CA
2 RV's to Newark CA... spending the night in Albert Lea MN Originally our plan had been to spend Sunday night at home, we have to wait for our paperwork to clear before we can pick up our RV's. Then last night BB asks about my driving hours. The last few runs we have been running at a slow pace and/...
200627 MN
Today we are looking at the runs for next week that we didn't look at yesterday. Rental car rates are up to $200-$300 a day for a lot of area's. $600 a day from one place. CA and NV are two area's that are still in the $100 a day range. Anything over that and we aren't going to be making any money....
200626 MN-ND
1 mixer to Dickenson ND, and headed home... spending the night at home Last night we had gotten in to the motel late so I didn't get everything done before bed that I had wanted to. And knew the alarm was going to go off at 6 AM so we would get to Dickenson before noon. But BB and I talked for a bit...
200625 MN-ND
1 mixer to Dickenson ND... spending the night in Bismarck ND Rolling from home by 7:30. To the shipper by 9 AM. No issues so far. But the code I have for the lock box doesn't work. The number I have is something like 8765 and the lock box has a bar with 1 through 5. Something has changed. And I go o...
200624 MN-ND
Heading to ND with a mixer. ??? I got a call early looking to see what I would and wouldn't do (I thought this was on the 'wouldn't do' list.) And I found out that a dispatcher that had been with the company for <> 10 years left during the slow down / virus. I'll have to see if I can find her...
200623 WI-WI
1 garbage truck from Somerset to Eau Claire WI, 71 miles... spending the night at home Before dispatch opens, we finally get an emailed receipt for the rental car we returned, over a week ago. And it is wrong. They billed us for an extra hour because they 'assumed' that even though we picked the car...
200621 MN
Still no work for the local company. I call them usually (and today) call them late in the day after the next days buses have been released. Dispatch didn't tell me how many more they would have for this month, but they did say that they were told of four more on the original list won't be moving th...
200620 MN
Not working, yet. Called in to local dispatch a couple of times last week. They have buses going to the north east but no where else. When I said "I would rather go to AZ," they said everyone would. They did not ask me if I wanted one of the ones going east. They also said it is going to be a very s...
200616 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH, and heading home... spending the night at home This motel had breakfast in the AM, two flavors of yogurt, mini-cinnie's and juice. But again, third day in a row, the apple juice tasted like water so I stuck with straight OJ. We didn't leave the hotel until closer to 9 AM, no...
200615 CA-OH
1 bus DELIVERED to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in North Liberty IA The alarm went off this AM:( first time in a while. -0-, no breakfast at all at this location. Same person that checked us in last night is back at 7 AM to check us out. One hour down the road and we will know how the day wil...
200614 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in La Grange KY. 209 miles today !! Breakfast was a very small danish, about the size of a coffee cup. OJ was OK and cold today but the apple juice tasted like water again. BB also had a piece of fruit. Didn't think about walking next door this AM for rea...
200613 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Mount Vernon IL More breakfast choices at this motel. We grabbed a couple of Pop Tarts until we realized they were fudge. Ended up with fruit, tried the juice, OJ was warm and apple was water so I threw it. They did also have muffins and breakfast bars...
200612 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Joplin No alarm, we both woke up between 6:30 and 7. Breakfast ? Blueberry muffin or nothing. They did have their juice machine running. OJ or water. TX inspection station is not open. OK scale is closed too. Might be the first time we have seen that c...
200611 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Shamrock TX Breakfast. Canned juice and packaged pastries to go. Pulled out at 9 AM local. When I walked out I heard branches braking. A truck driver at the motel next door was jack-knifing his trailer so he could make the turn. No idea why he was in t...
200610 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Albuquerque NM I think these places are taking advantage of having to reduce contact for breakfast. I don't see any reason not to have individual packages of yogurt like they used to. This place had a few packages of donuts like items but not much more...
200609 CA-OH
1 bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Kingman AZ Waiting for a permit this AM so not in a big rush. (It came hours after we left) Breakfast was a few pre-packaged items in a box on the counter, the only other thing was coffee. BB tried one, I settled for my left over potato salad. When the...
200608 CA-OH
2 RV's to Manteca CA ... delivered 1 Bus to Cincinnati OH... spending the night in Santa Nella CA <<< Photo No reason to be up early, so we were. Breakfast was... pizza. We each had a slice of left over pizza. And then we went and got our to-go breakfast. Today they asked which room number...
200607 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA ... spending the night in Manteca CA Re-start day. Mostly because we were ready to go and the loads we grabbed likely wouldn't be available the next day. Breakfast was another packaged 'to go' bag. Today's had a bottle of OJ, orange, pastry and a breakfast bar. A couple of hours...
200606 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA ... spending the night in Manteca, and tomorrow night BP was still an issue today, I was able to get it down on the 3rd try. Three tries is what they give us at the clinic. So on my log of readings, I use the the 1st number where the top number is over 100 and under 140 up to th...
200605 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA ... spending the night in Winnemucca NV Rough couple of nights for sleeping. I sleep, but not well. The good news is I haven't been tired during the day. Bad news this AM is that I have a bruise on my arm that looked like it just happened, and it got darker during the day. I als...
200604 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA ... spending the night in Evanston WY Limited breakfast. BB had leftovers from last night. I had two containers of yogurt and a cup of apple juice all eaten in our room. 1st stop in the port of entry in WY. We must have a mask to come in, they would prefer if you have a fax in y...
200603 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA... spending the night in Sidney NE I'm now convinced my breakfast at the motels are 'free.' Because when there isn't anything... the price doesn't go down. Instead of bacon (meat) and eggs and waffles and fruit there is now about 1/10 of the stuff and it is all pre-packaged. I h...
200602 IA-CA
2 RV's to Manteca CA... spending the night in Ankeny IA <<< Photo BB had a dentist appointment this AM so we finally got going closer to noon. Once we were on the road we got started talking about the face masks that someone had left in this car, so we messaged to see who's they were. A fri...
200601 IA-CA
Here goes... We are taking the plunge, we called in this AM and got a trip. And it looks like the covid numbers might actually be heading down, too early to know for sure. The other thing we have been watching is the protests turned riots, both here and on the route we will be traveling. That is one...