201030 DOT
BB passed her DOT this AM, no issues. Then we went to the DMV to get her info in the state system. When I went there a month ago it took me about 15 minutes total. We got there today and it took about 15 minutes... just to get a number. With an estimated wait time of 2 hours. We went and got lunch n...
201023 DOT
Still off work for the rest of this week. BB had her one month follow-up appointment today and as soon as she 'passed' that she set up a DOT appointment for Friday. That was the earliest they could get her in. The way our long haul company is set up is they only get the updates once a day. So when B...
201023 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers (both delivered)... spending the night at home Breakfast was hot biscuits and gravy. Or we could have nuked a sandwich. Or had good yogurt. I took yogurt, but it didn't 'puff' when I opened it, and then I saw where something was where it should have sealed....
201022 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers (both delivered)... spending the night at Charles City IA Breakfast. A cup of fruit and a pastry. We left AT 7:30 local. Sun was just coming up, lots of dew on the windows. Today we headed back through the area where BB's computer said the road was closed a...
201021 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers (both delivered)... spending the night at Oak Grove KY Breakfast was a pastry and a package of Fruit Loops. When I eat cereal I usually eat twice as much as was in one of those packages. Oh well, I am not starving. Left out about sunrise. 1st stop was in Lak...
201020 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers (both delivered)... spending the night at Ocala FL Muffin sandwiches to nuke, that is what we had from the front desk. Better than nothing. Before we leave the motel this AM, BB had to do her (least) favorite thing. She has to make phone calls. She has to ca...
201019 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers... spending the night at Ocala FL Breakfast was a choice of three kinds of pastries and juice that tasted like water (I ended up dumping the juice) My pastry had lots of frosting/sugar on top. We got going right as the sun was coming up, 8 AM local. We had p...
201018 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers... spending the night at Chattanooga TN For BB, yesterday there was coffee in our room, but no cups. Today there was cups but no decaf coffee. When we went down for breakfast there were pastries. That's it. I start my RV and realize I do not have any marker...
201017 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers... spending the night at O'Fallen MO Breakfast, bacon instead of bacon/sausage patties. Juice was just water, but then I tried it again and it worked. Juice machine must have just been connected and not run or something. We pull out a few minutes after 7 AM,...
201016 IA-FL
2 RV's to FL, 1 to Ocala, 1 to Fort Myers (not picked up)... spending the night at Albert Lea No breakfast at the IA motels? Nothing. So BB had a left over banana and I had my last cookie. No breakfast so we got going a few minutes earlier than usual. Traffic at that time of the morning is as I reme...
201015 IA-IN
2 RV's to IN, 1 to Burns Harbor, 1 to Auburn (both delivered)... spending the night at Walcott IA Breakfast was egg patties and sausage links, plus yogurt. Egg patties were fairly dry, they were OK as long as I ate them with the greasy sausage. We left the hotel about 8:30. As we are driving out I s...
201014 IA-IN
2 RV's to IN, 1 to Burns Harbor, 1 to Auburn... spending the night at Porter IN Hot breakfast, same as yesterday. We leave out a little after 7 AM. 1st stop - Our lot to pickup our RV's. Office door is open before 8 AM, we go in and wait as they are answering phone calls. Terminal manager and yard p...
201013 IA-IN
2 RV's to IN... spending the night at Albert Lea MN Breakfast was HOT FOOD. Scrambled eggs and sausage patties. More like a mix of sausage and ham. Plus yogurt. Then we sat and waited. Then got a late check out. At noon we went to Erbert and Gerbert's and got sandwiches that we ate in the van. We ha...
201012 NC-WI
1 tree truck to Waukesha WI, delivered... spending the night at Albert Lea MN Breakfast? I had two cups of yogurt and BB had a bowl of cereal and fruit. They also had muffins and packaged rolls. We had made the rental car reservation for 9 AM so we didn't get going until after 8:30. Opps, computer r...
201011 NC-WI
1 tree truck to Waukesha WI... spending the night at Waukesha WI No breakfast from the motel. I ate a poptart that I had gotten from a prior motel. BB had something similar. Got going at 10 AM. Traffic was not too bad being a Sunday morning. Actually paced with some other traffic going the speed lim...
201010 NC-WI
1 tree truck to Waukesha WI... spending the night at Merrillville IN Breakfast was Cheerio like cereal. They were out of yogurt. They did have frozen breakfast sandwiches but I wasn't in the mood for biscuits and sausage. Rain. And my IFTA stickers were put on my placards with Scotch tape, house hol...
201009 NC-WI
1 tree truck to Waukesha WI... spending the night at London KY Alarm did go off at 7 AM local. Breakfast was yogurt and juice. 1st stop - About a 45 minute drive to the customer. We've been here before so that makes it a lot easier. We know where to park, what is locked, where the keys and paperwork...
201008 MN-SC
2 Rv's to SC, one to Greer (delivered,) one to Myrtle Beach (delivered)... spending the night at Gastonia NC No alarm today. Breakfast was scrambled eggs. (no toast) And a muffin or a breakfast bar. BB took the muffin and scowled at the breakfast bar I took, until she looked at the calories. We fina...
201007 MN-SC
2 Rv's to SC, one to Greer (delivered,) one to Myrtle Beach... spending the night at Conway SC Breakfast was two cups of yogurt, good stuff. And juice. Headed out right at sunrise. Road construction, lots of it. Hang on to the steering wheel with both hands and hit the brakes when someone comes over...
201006 MN-SC
2 Rv's to sC, one to Greer, one to Myrtle Beach... spending the night at Galesburg IL Breakfast - A chocolate Rice Krispy bar and peanut butter crackers. At a Quality Inn. When I checked out, I commented that I had expected the granola bars like the ones sitting behind him. So he tried to offer me a...
201005 MN-SC
2 Rv's to sC, one to Greer, one to Myrtle Beach... spending the night at Galesburg IL Awakened by the alarm at 6 AM. Do our usual routine and are out of the at 7:30. A rare non-stop trip to IA. Weigh Scale just north of Albert Lea in I-35 southbound was open today. I think this is the 1st time in 15...
201003 MN-SC
1 RV to Greer, 1 RV to Myrtle Beach SC We didn't want to leave until Monday so all we could do on Friday was watch the board. We did, but not often. After close of day we do on the math on what is left for Saturday AM. BB had been doing math on other runs and nothing was working but somehow she miss...
200928 MN
BB's surgery in the AM. All is going well. Spent some time on the phone trying to get billed for a truck I took through the toll booth close to a month ago. I tried to tell them I could ID my truck by time and sight but that is another department and they will bill me... some day. I made two phone c...
200925 MN-MN
We worked! Now that has to hold us for a couple of weeks. Got a call this AM about 10:30 wanting me to go to St Cloud and pick up a truck. 75 miles each way. Not quite metro, but close and it is the first thing this week and it is heading into the weekend. New (to me) dispatcher. Once I said yes, th...
200924 MN
Back to the prior update. I had missed a couple of calls because of my new phone and things not being set up correct. I called the next morning and they had gotten the load covered. I had 'clearly' said I was only available for metro, and they were checking to see if I would do a 800 mile trip to Tu...
200921 MN
Available, but no work today. I had both emailed and talked to dispatch on Friday but they didn't have anything to line up for Monday. But lots of times there are trucks that come into the office/lot over the weekend and then dispatch needs someone to delivery them Monday morning. Office opens at 8...
200915 IA
No work, just a road trip to the office in IA. BB had eye surgery last Monday and by Thursday wanted to try to drive our car/van. Things went OK so at noon I emailed the office of our local company. Within a couple of minutes I had gotten a call back, I didn't get to the phone and had to call them b...
200915 MN
No driving yet. BB had eye surgery on Monday, we went back for a checkup today. Heading the right direction but don't want to push anything until all is OK again. It is driver appreciation week at both companies. The long haul company is doing once or twice a day calls on various topics. Not sure wh...
200912 MN
OK. No work but... Friday we are watching the load board and we see all these interesting trips. Where are they when we are running? I think the answer to that is when we are running, we look at the load board once or so a day and then just out of IA or where we will end up. The interesting loads li...
200909 MN
BB had her appointment early this AM... But she wasn't feeling up to driving for other reasons. And nothing new/good got put on the load board so that is likely it for us for the month. If something happens or I get bored, I may write updates. I spent the day running numbers, looking at loads. Nothi...
200908 MN
We ended up taking today off. And the prior two days. The run that I had been looking at with the long haul company was gone early this AM and the local company never called. So we watched the board all day. Ran a lot of numbers. Dispatch called BB looking for drivers that is something they do not d...
200905 MN-OK
1 mixer to Grove OK, delivered... spending the night at home... Opps, missed showing the 1st stop on my map. Breakfast was late, no alarm, no reason to get going. Breakfast was yogurt, muffins or one lone breakfast bar (left) and juice. 1st stop was five miles down the road. We decided not to risk i...
200904 MN-OK
1 mixer to Grove OK, delivered... spending the night at West Des Moines IA... Up before the alarm, too much food last night. Breakfast was... not taking advantage of the situation. Some locations are not serving any breakfast, because they can. This place had everything out either directly or behind...
200903 MN-OK
1 mixer to Grove OK... spending the night at Harrisonville MO... Later last night I read my paperwork and found out that my drop closes at 12 noon tomorrow. Something that dispatch did not tell me. Because of previous plans, we could not drop our rental car until 8 AM today. So we were up and left t...
200902 OH-MN
1 chipper truck to Circle Pines MN, delivered... spending the night at home... We are up with the alarm, for those that didn't have an alarm, there were at least three different cars honking their horns this AM in the parking lot. I'm guessing to try and get the attention of those who should have be...
200901 OH-MN
1 chipper truck to Circle Pines MN, 1 rental car following... spending the night at Rochelle IL... Went to bed early last night, mixed up on the time zones. Still slept until the alarm went off at 7 AM local (6 Central.) Muffins and juice was all they had for breakfast. BB had muffins, I had juice....
200831 IA-NC
2 Rv's to NC, one to Mocksville, one to Concord (delivered)... spending the night at Jeffersonville OH... Lots of discussion last night about which run to take. Finally realized there were two West Chester's in OH and we had been looking at the wrong one. The correct one, based on miles, was near Ci...
200830 IA-NC
2 Rv's to NC, one to Mocksville, one to Concord... spending the night at Mocksville NC... Breakfast, bagged. One bottle of water, one fruit, one Rice Crispy bar. Plus they had yogurt in the fridge and juice in the machine. Some juice. I wanted the Orange Pineapple, but it tasted like water. So I had...
200829 IA-NC
2 Rv's to NC, one to Mocksville, one to Concord... spending the night at Englewood (Dayton) OH... Breakfast... NO breakfast. No one mentioned that to us last night. When I questioned them this AM they said it very's by state. (It seems to very by location) But at under $50 a night I'm not going to c...
200828 IA-NC
2 Rv's to NC, one to Mocksville, one to Concord... spending the night at Moline IL... The map. If you are looking at the map, you might notice that at least to start with, I am only adding our stops, not to show the route we followed. And I started the new month because we will not be home until nex...