201231`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV (delivered)... spending the night at home The 1st thing BB says to me this AM is "we are not going anywhere." With no alarm and no where to go, she slept for 10 hours. Her body needs another day or two off. The 'work' we do today is get the rental car back. So two...
201230`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV (delivered)... spending the night at home Breakfast is already in a bag, so we grab it to go. We are on the road before sun up. Until sun up I drove 65 mph in an 80 zone. Then right before sun up we got to ND and the speed limit is 75 mph. This car is doing really...
201229`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV (delivered)... spending the night at Glendive MT 165 ??? On the IA load board the end of Dec? Last two years it was -0-. Neither of us slept great last night. I froze all night and BB was up turning up the temp. This AM we think we figured it out. BB had set the fa...
201228`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV (delivered)... spending the night at Idaho Falls ID I missed taking a screen shot of the weather map that had us re-route our trip. The forecast was for snow yet today before we get to SLC. Then we would be following it, with the worst from Rawlins WY to Laramie WY...
201227`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV... spending the night at Winnemucca NV This place has hot breakfast... and I have more leftovers than I can eat. I think I need to stop eating anything with garlic or noodles before bed. Didn't sleep well, too stuffed... or just eat less of it. We need to scrape ou...
201226`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV... spending the night at Evanston WY Breakfast, today was a nuked ham and cheese croissant. All they had was peach yogurt. Seems their last shipment came in already expired so they are putting out what no one wanted before. 7:30 we are ready to go. Still less than...
201225`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV... spending the night at Sidney NE I had plenty of leftovers for breakfast, but I went down with BB to get some juice. I had to find the help to get it turned on. The breakfast choices were yogurt, pastries and two kinds of cereal. We got going at about 7:30. Frost...
201224`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV... spending the night at Ankeny IA Yesterday it had rained, and then snowed. Yesterday it was in the mid 40's, this AM it was near -0-. Makes for fun shoveling before we can leave. Both BB and I shoved for a half hour, took a break and then did another half hour. I...
201223`MN-NV
1 tanker, heading to Winnemucca NV... spending the night at home 8:15 this AM we get a call for work. Winnemucca NV with a tanker. A Ford 550, a mini. We have blizzard warning starting today so we get ready and out of the house rather quickly. Could have left in two minutes but we were not in that m...
201222 MN-MN
No calls from the farm this AM so we are free to work. Local dispatch calls at 10:30 to check if I am still available, I am. They need to check with the customer and call me back at 11:00, it is a go. We get to the office to pick up paperwork. While I am waiting for the dispatcher, another driver co...
201221 MN
Originally I had let the local dispatch know that I would be available for my local company starting today. Then we were still having issues on the farm so I changed it so I was not available today but would be the rest of the month. Today I called in and said I could do metro Tues and Weds and leav...
201217`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA (delivered)... spending the night at home Awake before the 6 AM alarm today. Breakfast was the very basics, yogurt, fresh fruit, muffins, pastry and juice. Frost on the windows but it came off with wiper fluid. 1st stop was in Clear Lake for fuel for the rental car....
201216`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA (delivered)... spending the night at Cedar Rapids IA No alarm, we are not up at 4 AM. BB had left overs, I went down and got their to-go bag and yogurt. When I saw there was a bottle of water in the to-go, I got one for BB also. We start the trip with a 24 or 36 pack...
201215`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA (delivered)... spending the night at Maumee OH Alarm goes off at 5 AM local, 4 AM our time. It is the last day this week we should have to get up early. Breakfast, BB eats her leftovers and after I go down to get breakfast, I eat last nights left over banana bread. T...
201214`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Wadsworth OH Woke up a few minutes before the alarm this AM instead of the middle of the night. Breakfast was a muffin with egg and cheese, nuked. Plus yogurt and juice. The AM desk person has almost always been the same person and was again...
201213`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Edwardsville IL When we wake up it is raining. When I carry the first luggage out it has started to snow. When we check out the cars are covered in snow. Our good luck has worn out:( Breakfast was a 'you-pick' grab bag. I had yogurt and a pas...
201212`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Oklahoma City OK Leftovers for breakfast. Then on our way out we stock up on more emergency supplies, breakfast to go. My first trip out to my bus the parking lot lights were on, but the next trip the lights were off. They must be on a timer...
201211`CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Edgewood NM Train runs right behind our motel but I don't hear it unless I am outside. Breakfast is hot food. But you have to come in the correct way or they will not serve you. Even if you are the only ones there. Scrabbled eggs, choice of h...
201210 CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Kingman AZ For breakfast we had the other half of last nights food. This AM it didn't seem nearly as spicy. I hadn't gotten my permits printed last night so this AM I went to the front desk and asked if they could print them. His 1st computer...
201209 CA-PA
1 Bus, heading to Johnsonburg PA... spending the night at Santa Nella CA Nothing to do today, but we don't want to sit in the motel again. Breakfast is a choice of three packaged pastries and orange water. I mentioned they were out of juice, but they were working on making coffee so we didn't wait....
201208 CA
1 Bus, maybe, someday... spending the night at Santa Nella CA We were going to be sitting most of the day so I kept a log of the load board. I had expected it to go most of the day without any change. Wrong, other than the early AM it was changing all day. Lots of stuff was coming and going and that...
201207 IA-CA
2 RV's heading to Davis CA (delivered)... spending the night at Livermore CA Not a good sight. We wake up in the morning, look out the window and someone has parked directly in front of us. No rush to get going this AM. We have been leaving this hotel at 9 AM local to get behind the rush hour traffi...
201206 IA-CA
2 RV's heading to Davis CA... spending the night at Rocklin CA If the worst thing that happens today is that I lost a pen, it's a good day. Breakfast, a little better than last time. Still the same Hostess goodies but also oranges, yogurt and cereal. We had to wait as it wasn't ready yet a 6:30 AM....
201205 IA-CA
2 RV's heading to Davis CA... spending the night at Wendover UT Rough night. Slept, woke up thinking it was about time to wake up. After laying there a while, looked at the clock and it was 1 AM. Often I don't get back to sleep after laying there awake but this time I did. And dreamed of delivering...
201204 IA-CA
2 RV's heading to Davis CA... spending the night at Laramie WY Went to bed way to early last night, awake hours before the alarm. We were almost directly across from the entrance door and the front desk so we heard voices late and early, but not during the night so that was good. Breakfast was... mu...
201203 IA-CA
2 RV's heading to Davis CA... spending the night at Gretna/Omaha NE Up before the alarm at 6 AM, in the car and leaving on time at 7:30 AM. No real slow downs for 'rush hour.' When we drove past our repair shop, our van was sitting in the 'done' row, but they hadn't called. We did not stop. 1st stop...