1 trash truck to Wheeling IL (delivered)

... spending the night at DeForest WI

Breakfast, not sure why but we have to ask the front desk for any sandwiches to nuke. The rest of the stuff is sitting out.

7:30 AM and I am out the door. ICE. I call BB and let her know, she will be leaving sometime later.

I get BB's placards mounted inside my truck, the tape does not stick to the windows so I use extra tape and hang it from the frame.

A few turns down city streets and I am at my first fuel stop.

By the time I am done fueling it is after 8 AM so I call my dispatcher. Four items this AM. I couldn't do my checking because dispatch had done something wrong in the computer. And I asked which location is the drop, they say the address on the shippers paperwork has been closed 'for years.' They have no answer on why they wanted me to fuel 90 miles out of route, I can fuel at the customers property. And I told them I lost my placard in case anyone contacts them when finding it.

I did not ask about which route I should take, so I am going 'my way.'

1st stop is in La Crosse at the Kwik Trip fueling station. Fueling station only. No store. It is part of a huge Kwik Trip complex that includes a warehouse, training center, bakery, etc. Eight fuel island that all have CNG, some have LNG, gas, diesel.

I don't see her, but BB pulls onto the cross street right behind me as I am leaving town. Today I am the one driving faster. As soon as the traffic clears, I am doing 60 mph. BB keeps it at 50-55 mph until we have the first 40 miles behind us. Then the roads start to clear and I finally set the cruise.

2nd stop is in Lake Mills at another Kwik Trip. BB has stopped a few times but still pulls in right behind me. I fuel again, I am down to about 1/2 a tank.

Coming through Milwaukee I am in the center lane when I see a hammer in my lane, in line for my tires. I have no where to swerve, there is traffic on both sides of me. So I hit and and hopefully did not throw it. Within just the last couple of nights I was looking at some 'bad driver' video's online and one was of a driver who stopped on a city street, got out and threw a hammer at the car behind him, breaking their windshield. I am always very away of what and how tires can throw debris we hit on the roadway.

3rd stop is for fuel, outside the fence at the drops property. Or not. I had found the fueling station listed online on a CNG site, and looked at it on Google maps. But I don't see it now. So I find place to park and call the number on my paperwork. No name is listed on my paperwork and the phone is automated. So I enter the 1st extension listed, then the 2nd, 3rd ... after six try's and no answer at any of them I decide to walk to the building. I needed to find where to fuel before I could deliver and then where to deliver.

I walk in the closest building and into the first office, I don't get much for straight answers but the person follows me outside. We have talked for a bit before I finally realize that this guy is willing to sign for this truck, right here on the street with no fuel added. I give him the paperwork to start signing while I call dispatch and explain the situation. I am good to drop.

Kind of caught me off guard so I didn't have my stuff packed or cleaned out. I'm doing that while the guy is checking and he is ready to drive away so I have him hand me the last of my stuff. Later I realize that I didn't take any final pictures. But I do have signed paperwork.

I'm a block away from the original address so I call BB to find out where she is. As often, we get on some side tangent and I finally say I have to hang up, my hands are freezing. I hadn't put my gloves on, I just grabbed everything and started walking.

Local dispatch calls sometime during all this so I let it go to voicemail. When I listen to it I find out they want me to do local work yet today. Nope, and I am not going to tell them that I am in Chicago (where they had a trip for me to go) I just call back and say I am NA.

We try to get my paperwork sent in but we don't have a way to write on a screenshot of our tolls on our phones so we need to wait until this evening when I can do it on my laptop in paint.

Still in Wheeling we stop at a Jimmy Johns for food, it is 2 PM so we order the Slim Jim's. Baskin Robins/Duncan Donuts is next door be I just get a cookie from JJ instead.

Our plan is to head ... back the way we came. It will be tomorrow before we are near Tomah and need to decide if we are going home or back out on the road.

4th stop is in DeForest at the Comfort Inn. Masks are required in this county again. I had texted my brother earlier about his favorite food in the Nook as there is one in town. He told me and when I said where we were ... he said they closed an hour ago. Opps, hadn't looked at that. Both BB and I were looking at their online menu when he said that.

So we order from the 'family restaurant' instead. French Dip for me. Good food. They forgot to send ketchup for BB's fries so she wasn't happy about that, her wrap was good though. I also got a piece of blueberry cheesecake. That was good too.

Load baord

US - 299

IA - 83/79

They did put some CA trips out there but one at a time and none that we can tie together. If we do not leave tomorrow we will not go to CA until next month. There are a few pairs of trips but none that pay. Cars out of Bozeman are $225 a day instead of the usual $100. The other locations aren't any better.

Two possible trips are taking one RV to Minot and following in our car. The other is taking another trash truck, this one to Lincoln. We have been looking at that one before but with the storm coming in we didn't want to take it then. It is still there. It is shorter than the ND trip but it will be closer to our auction trucks that no one but me seems to be interested in.

Or we may just go home for the weekend.

LOG

7:30 - La Crosse WI - leave Comfort Inn

7:45 - La Crosse WI - fuel at the Kwik Trip alternative fueling station

11:00 - Lake Mills WI - fuel at Kwik Trip

1:15 - Wheeling IL - Arrive at drop

4:15 - DeForest WI - Arrive at Comfort Inn

5:30 - DeForest WI - PU food from DeForest Family Restaurant