2 RV's to Greer SC (delivered)

1 tree truck to Olathe KS

... spending the night at Whitsett NC

Alarm at 6 AM central time, 7 local. We watch the NC board for anything new, but nothing.

Breakfast was juice and a pastry, BB had fruit.

When we go to pull out, BB is honking at me. I thought she didn't think I would fit under the overhang. I finally stopped, she was reminding me to check out :)

We make it to the fuel stop a few miles down the road. When BB is done, she parks hers and we go to the airport. Small, not very busy airport so no problem. We've done this before.

Another mile and I am back at the drop. The 1st person in line has brought in two travel trailers. The 2nd person has the same model as BB. Finally someone comes over and says they will get to us when they can, but they also have to move trailers when called.

Soon someone else pulls in behind me, and then BB arrives. Finally someone does come and starts checking the travel trailers. This person has said it takes about 30 minutes per unit to inspect. At that rate I would be done in two hours, BB in three hours.

Then someone else comes and starts checking the motorhomes. No driver issues with either BB's or mine when we were at the drop. Signed clear.

I logged an hour and a half at the drop. They didn't want me to leave my RV there with no one around, so I waited until BB arrived and then walked back to the gas station where we had fueled and BB had left the rental car.

... and we had lots of time to talk. The 1st driver works for three different companies but this is his first RV. Not impressed with the money. Later when all four of us drivers were talking, we got on fuel. This 1st driver said he thought our company should just pay actual fuel instead of paying us and then we pay for the fuel. Because he just 'lost money' on fuel for his RV.

That got the conversation going. BB had the exact same RV as him and she made $40 on fuel on a two day trip. And he lost money? The 4th driver was very much in favor of how things are now. He said he has driven 55 mph if that's what it takes. He has made $100's of dollars on some trips (as have I, but I didn't put a number on it)

Afterword we were talking about it. The 4th driver and I have been doing this almost 18 years each. Drivers who don't know how to make money are not going to last that long.

The 1st driver lives an hour north of here and had his daughter waiting for him. The 4th driver lives in FL and had left his car in Shelby (an hour from here) because he had just taken a truck to MN :(

We were an hour down the road when I realized that we were going past Shelby and could have offered him a drive, instead he took an Uber. I was thinking Shelby was south of us, and we were going to be heading North. Not sure how Shelby NC would be sought of Greer SC but that is what was stuck in my head ... so he had to pay for a 60 mile Uber ride.

4th driver said he is off for at least a week. His Mom turns 100 on St Patrick's Day.

As we are standing around, local (for here) dispatch adds two trucks heading to KS. I grab one.

Then when we are leaving, BB needs to change the rental car drop location. $200 ??? Drop charge ??? She calls the location she rented from. Yes, that is correct. BB doesn't often answer the phone but a call came in just a minute later and she figured she should answer. Someone else in the rental car office knew how to change the location without the drop charge. And they took the initiative to call us.

Once BB had seen the drop charge would be $200, we got off and the next exit and drove back to the 1st truck stop. We didn't want to be too far away from the airport if we needed to switch cars. Actually switching cars was not an option. This is the only company in the state that seems to be doing one ways right now.

So our next trip may not be to NC unless we have cars lined up before we take the run. Or we just use the truck we pick up and go back to the original pickup location so it is a local, not a one way rental. But that would likely be 100's of miles on the truck.

Once that is all taken care of we have about four hours up to the next truck. If we had gone to Selma again it would have only been an hour ... but they didn't have any cars.

One stop at a rest area near Thomasville.

We were just to the location in Creedmoor so it goes quicker. Dispatch had told us to make sure our truck number was correct. And we did notice a few where the 2nd set of numbers were exactly the same.

Different kind of truck and the only way to open the side panels is to lift the dump box. So we fit one we can in one small panel and the bigger luggage goes in the truck on the passenger side. With BB sitting in the middle.

Everything checks out, we are in, out and fueled in about an hour.

BB had given me verbal directions on where the rental car place was, but didn't mention one street :) I still found it.

Less than an hour down the road and we are at a Comfort Inn. Once we check in we walk across the street to Zaxby's for food. Chicken fingers again for me, salad for BB.

After we left Zaxby's, we couldn't get back in the side door at the hotel ... if we had, I wouldn't have gotten my cookies. They had forgot to put them in our order and the followed us across the street to give them to us.

Load board.

US - 377

IA - 191

MN -0-

WI - 23

KS -0-

As of now, we have a rental car home from KS. The cheapest car, by half, was at the airport. That adds about 40 miles to our trip, but worth it. And as of now, we are planning on picking up the car Thursday AM before we drop.

Then head back out again.

If something shows up out of KS or MO that works, we could head anywhere. We don't need to be back for two weeks yet.