2 RV's to Reno NV
... spending the night in Grand Island NE
We were told last night that if there were 15 guests overnight, that there would be a hot breakfast. There was a hot breakfast. Eggs and sausage or sausage, plus yogurt and juice. One sausage is the typical pork link sausage. The other is more like a mixture of pork and bacon in the form of a patty. This is the only place I remember than has it. It's good.
We get out of the hotel on time, but there is roadwork on the road from the freeway to Forest City. We have to wait for the pilot car and it is a 2-3 mile escort and we just missed the tail end of the prior one so we wait a bit.
The up side is there was no one else in the office waiting for paperwork when we got there. I counted a dozen drivers plus us picking up RV's today. Plus two semi's getting ready to load.
Mine has been sitting there long enough that it is wrapped, to keep the rocks from the sanding trucks from doing so much damage. This one doesn't looked wrapped too well, so I use my tape to re-tape where it is the worst. There are clips on the wrap that are supposed to attach to the RV. None of the ones by the windshield are hooked. I am able to get those hooked. There are also hooks on the bottom of the grill area. Those I can not get hooked, the wrap is six inches too short. It looks like the used the wrap from the wrong size RV and just used some tape to keep it attached.
While I am doing my inspection I get a call from the office. Seems one of the hour logs I dropped off last Friday, I forgot to sign. I'm still here so I sign their copy and my copy. Tonight I have BB re-send it. It doesn't seem like a big deal, but I could get fined and it would go on my commercial driving record. Too many offenses and no one will hire me.
1st stop with the RV is the Pilot in Clear Lake for fuel.
2nd stop is at the QT (Quick Trip) for their Burger King. We each get a Whopper Jr and eat outside by our RV's. When we got off the freeway, I noticed the Bononza we used to eat at had a full parking lot. When we left Burger King, I noticed that most of the signage was gone. When I look online tonight I find that they closed Feb 8. So not sure why the parking lot was full.
The high today here in Iowa is 84 as it was yesterday. We notice a few places earlier today that had burned since we were in the area on Friday. One area along I-35 was a half mile long and ?? deep.
3rd stop is the rest area near Adair. Now that we are on an East/West road, we are catching enough wind that the cruise control is kicking off. And it won't reset unless we restart the RV's.
4th stop is the QT in Adair for fuel.
5th stop is the Arby's in York. This location still has potato cakes. The one closest to where I live no longer carries them. So I had one just in case it will be my last one.
From here I remember to call the bus dispatcher. He just said to call him on Thursday (the day we delivery.)
6th and final stop is the Quality Inn in Grand Island. Good thing we stopped for food earlier. The Arby's that used to be next door is closed. Their in house restaurant is closed. Another building next to the hotel looks like it used to be a fast food building. Now the closest food is at a truckstop two miles away.
We saw two buses today. The first one was in Des Moines and said DART. That is what Des Moines calls there buses but it was not the correct logo. And I thought it said Delaware ....
Dallas calls their buses DART, which would be way out of route. Delawere does use the name but again the logo is wrong. Maybe a new logo?
Later we saw a short bus but didn't get a good look at the logo. I need a video camera I can run for a few minutes at a time.
Load board
US - 527
IA - 525
MN - 10
WI - 6
22 RV's from IA to CA right now.
The load board is staying above 200, but the lot is not full anymore. The remaining RV's in the shippers parking lot will now fit in our lot. But I still think that the shipper can keep up this pace as long as they do not run out of parts ... again.