1 trash truck to Shenandoah IA (delivered)

... spending the night at home

It is going to be rough getting back on the road, we were finally up and heading down for breakfast at 8:45. They close down breakfast at 9 AM. Breakfast was a frozen breakfast biscuits. BB also had cereal and I had juice. I had two cups, the first one was half OJ but the OJ ran out for the 2nd cup.

Back at the room we are eating and BB finally looks at the load board.

... WHAT ? ! ? !

There is a truck 20 miles from us that will only add 20 miles to our trip home. Des Moines to Shakopee. I start dialing but BB had to show it to me before I finish dialing ... but it is gone.

Someone has spoken for it and another one but dispatch says they will check on it. They didn't say they would call me back and didn't. Another hour later and I call the 2nd time, yes, the other driver is taking the one I want.

:(

It's not often that a trip that perfect shows up. Who knows, we may have gotten it if we had been watching. Or we could have still missed out on it. Either way we are going home empty.

1st and only stop is in Clear Lake at Pilot for fuel and Culver's for a treat for me. BB isn't hungry. We kept watching the load board until we left Clear Lake, after that there wasn't a point. And we had lost a couple of hours this AM so we really didn't have many options that would work.

2nd and final stop is home.

Yesterday on I-80 we were seeing lots of transporters. A convoy of four Amazon vans first and then five Amazon vans a little later. Plus lots of others. And it seemed like we were seeing new travel trailers about one a minute. Maybe one every two minutes, but an awful lot of them for the hour and a half we were on I-80.

Today we saw a couple of tow trucks, a cement truck, a couple of trash trucks on I-35.

Had another driver that wouldn't let me pass today. Other people could pass them but not me. Finally I saw a semi coming onto the freeway from a rest area and I got the jump on them and they couldn't get over.

Load board

US - 174

IA - 85/83

MN - 5

WI - 4

Appointments the next two days. And a likely meeting mid-week next week. Other than that we will try to do local. Local dispatch wants me to go to Kansas City the end of the week. Long haul has 17 trips on the load board that are under 400 miles that would work, plus one of the auction trips from Duluth that would be a two day trip.