2 RV's to Mocksville, NC

... spending the night at Walcott IA

No alarm. Breakfast is leftovers from last night.

Shortly after 7 AM I realize I have forgotten to call to get my Monday truck.

Opps and forgotten seem to be getting to be common topics. :(

I call and get the truck, it turns out the PPL as the description is short for the company name of who we are moving it for. We are moving it for another driveaway company. So extra paperwork. By calling early I am able to print out copies at home.

The last trip I didn't have my phone with so I was using the camera and the clock on the old phone. Last night I spent way too much time trying to get the software to work to get those photo's off that phone. This AM I just started emailing them to myself. Once I was done, I went to put the old phone back in the case in my bag.

NOOOOOooo. Not again. We FORGOT.

Somewhere I left the case the phone had been in. Not sure if I left it in the truck or in the rental car. I had to take it out of the larger travel bag because it wouldn't fit in the side compartment when in the bag. I don't remember taking it out of the truck, but the truck is bright orange and the case, a clip board that is thick enough to put stuff inside, is black. Pretty hard to miss.

But the inside of the car was black. Black on black.

I have called where I dropped the truck, had to leave a message and no reply. And I have filed a lost report with the rental car company.

The up side is that the value of the lost is about $25. $10 deposit on each of the two missing I-Pass.' We canceled them online and ordered one new one. The I-Pass web page asks a lot of questions to get you the 'right' IPass. But we run anything and everything on any IPass and always get billed the correct amount. So we shouldn't really need two IPasses each. At one point I had three and BB had two. Now we will only have three. One for rental cars and the other two for trucks.

A little frustration to start out the day. We double check to make sure we haven't forgotten anything this AM. So far we don't see to have.

1st stop is the rest area near Owattona.

2nd stop is for fuel and food at Northwood. BP and BK. I use up the last of the BP gift cards at the pump. BB orders us each a Whopper Jr.

3rd stop is at the lot in Forest City. Busy again today. I talk to a couple of drivers, one is heading to Myrtle Beach and the other to TX. The TX driver just came from Mocksville, where we will be dropping on Monday. He said it was one of the quickest drops he has had, and that was before I said we were going there. From there he headed to AR with a pickup. So he got one of the ones we would have taken. And he lives in KSC so he would have taken my trip if he hadn't already taken the AR run.

Talked to the manager when we got our paperwork. I mentioned that this will make our third trip with him this month. Our record. He askes if we can do six more. Just Wednesday the shipper had added 50 more in one day to the backlog. That is normally what happens a the end of the quarter. This is week two of the new quarter.

And there is a new model coming out and lots of dealers take two just to start. Those are not on the lot yet.

It takes us our usual hour to do our inspection. We each have enough fuel to get to Floyd were I will get a discount of fuel.

... but gas is cheaper in Clear Lake so BB stops there.

4th stop, Loves in Floyd. I get a discount, but because I am driving a small unit I need to fuel at the auto pumps. So I have to go inside and get the pump turned on. They know how to do that. But after I fuel, the mangers are at the register because the cashiers didn't know how to ring me up.

By the time I pull away from the pump, BB is getting there.

5th stop is the Casey's in Center Point for a restroom break. While there we make our reservation at Walcott. We have daylight and hours but we don't need to push it to make delivery Monday AM.

6th and final stop is the Comfort Inn in Walcott. We order online and walk next door to Grandma's Kitchen for food. I save enough of mine for breakfast. NO breakfast at this location. BB had grabbed a couple of breakfast bars from home before we left today. Last trip we walked to Pilot for shelf food in the AM.

Not too much new most of this trip. We will take the same route as two weeks ago except for the last 100 miles.

Load board

US - 439

IA - 201

MN - 7

WI - 12

There is a pickup heading up to Milwaukee out of NC that would work with our run, but BB doesn't want to drive through Chicago. Right through.

All the 'good runs' out of WI are gone today. None of them were moving and they all disappeared at one time. My guess is the customer said they would find someone else.

My local company says they will have about 50 buses before the end of the month. Since Covid I have not been moving any. The trips are all too long for BB to follow and I am not riding in a shuttle for five hours to do local work. I emailed and said when I can work.

My 2nd truck is 25 miles from our drop and then another 12 miles to drop the rental car in town before we leave. If things go well we could be delivering the 2nd truck by noon on Tuesday. From there it is about three hours up to Chicago to a truck that is still there tonight.

IF that truck is still there, we could pick it up yet Tuesday and it goes back home. Less than 500 miles and we would go right past our house, again. That would be Wednesday. Only downside is our van would still be in IA.