1 Semi tractor to Indianapolis IN (delivered)

... spending the night at Walcott IA

... late night. I didn't even look at the load board for daily numbers. This is being written up a day later.

Breakfast. We could look at everything but could not touch. BB didn't realize it was don't touch ANYTHING before she put bread in the toaster. The way it was laid out, the hot food was past the rest of the food in a smaller 'room.' But the rules applied to everywhere. I got an omelette, sausage, yogurt and the first juice I have had in days that tasted good.

Rolling at 6:30 / 7:30 local.

The two lane road was OK today, we did see a couple of places where someone had driven off the road, but none looked recent.

OHIO

Somewhere there the shoulder of the road was washed away. The highway dept put up concrete barriers right next to the hole. I would have thought they would have left a little more space ...

1st stop is a rest area near Ray OH

2nd stop is a TA near Lewisburg OH. We had planned this stop in case I needed more fuel. I don't, yet. But dispatch has finally gotten corrected paperwork for me. So I had to have it sent to me. But I can not email to them for security reasons. I have to set up my phone so I can send it right to their printer. I gave them my phone and they did it for me.

3rd stop is at a Pilot for fuel. By now I have getting 10 mpg. I have put in 70 gallons of fuel so I should be able to get 700 miles. Also when the fuel gauge got down to 1/8th, I should have 37 gallons left in my tank. At 10 mpg, that is 370. At that point I had 170 miles left to go. So 200 miles to spare.

Still, I stopped and put in four more gallons 10 miles before the drop. I'm guessing I left this truck with more fuel than any other truck this location received.

Today it was raining so I found out a couple of things. 1st, when I left in the AM, I realized the cruise doesn't work with the headlights on. When it started raining, I realized the cruise doesn't work with the wipers on either. Even if you don't have the lights on. Safety? Or a mal-function?

INDIANA

4th stop is at the rental car place a couple of blocks off the freeway. I park on the street and BB goes in. We are running an hour and half late so it should be quick. (?) Nope, we waited an hour for them to wash and clean the car. And to go fuel it. They went to fuel it and came back with 3/8 of a tank. They did knock a few $ off because they up graded the car to a larger car with worth mileage.

Another four miles down the road and we / I am at the drop. Luckily the road grader that showed on the 2019 map view was still sitting there :)

The number on the building was wrong, but I found the right person. Then he wanted me to park the truck between the two previous trucks. I got it close enough.

He walked around it once and signed off. Then he went to his office and made copies.

BB had remembered the correct street numbers, but in the wrong order. She did get there before I was ready to go.

Still nothing new on the load board so we are heading home.

Before we leave town, we head to the Burger King. But we miss guessed where the drive way was. But we were next to a McDonalds so we ate there. Long wait at the drive thru, we should have gone to a gas station and got shelve food.

I-465 had a back up on the on coming lane, traffic was backed up for about five miles. Our side was clear.

5th stop was at the Pilot in Crawfordsville for fuel.

ILLINOIS

Somewhere dispatch called from my local company, but by the time I called back they had given the trip away. It was for tomorrow and we will not be home. But I will be looking for work next week.

6th stop was in Galesburg at the Taco Bell. We don't think that this was here when we used to stop at the motel next door.

IOWA

7th and final stop was at the Comfort Inn for the night. We had hoped to get further, but the cruise was set at the speed limit but each stop took too long. The rental car stop cost us big time.

We got into our room after 8 PM. I spent a few minutes looking at birthday wishes online and then it was 9 PM, and the alarm will go off at 5 AM.

Load board - unknown