1 trash truck to Wheeling IL (delivered)

... spending the night at home

BB was up a little after 4 AM, I crawled out at 6 AM. The alarm did not go off until 6:30.

We spent most of the time talking about which trip to take. There are a lot of options but once we start looking at the money most don't pay. Most trips we are looking at should take a half a day and we have a day and a half.

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There are two trips on the load board boing to Bozeman that have been out there for three weeks. We have looked at them often but rental cars have gone up again. Finally this AM I am looking at it again and think I have figured out how to do the trip. I missed something but talking about it, BB looks at the rental car price with our discount. Usually our discount is about 10-20%. For this one it is 50%. She reserves us a car.

We grab our usual breakfast.

Now that we have picked a trip, we are ready to leave as soon as we can call dispatch at 8 AM. 8 AM comes and I call, no answer so I re-dial. After I re-dial about 10 times we decide we need to get going to stay on schedule. I finally had texted the terminal manager asking if they were open today. Usually they will only not be open on Saturday if there are les than 10 trips on the loadboard, and then they will take the trips off the loadboard for the weekend. Last night they were still putting new trips on the load board right up to 5 PM. And the load board ended at 79, a long way from -0-.

Today we decide to take I-90 where I-90 and I-94 split. We haven't heard from dispatch and I have seen before that they are giving out trips even when the office is closed. And it will get us closer to Dodge Center if we choose that route.

1st stop is the rest area by Sparta. Neither of us had noticed the east bound rest area yesterday but I remember stopping at it in the past. So today we are looking for it. Today it isn't snowing and we both can look. We see ... where it was, it has been completely removed.

BB keeps dialing at random times but still no answer. Finally I get a reply to my text 'Closed, snowed in.' Too bad, we were going to take a couple of trips that were 'hot' and had been on the load board for three weeks. There was a break in the weather so it wouldn't have been below zero when we delivered. Not sure if we will still be interested in it on money.

We had also talked about doing the Lincoln NE trip that we had looked at earlier. Now we talk about it again. But we finally rule that out because of the ride. I generally stay away from the trash trucks completely and doing two back to back trips is likely not a good idea. Later in the day we walk about it again when we see a couple of trash trucks in transport.

2nd stop is at a Loves in St Charles because I see that gas is $.20 less than most places, and I am down to a range of 40 miles.

We did see two enclosed Amish buggies today, one up close as we pulled off to go to Loves.

Before Rochester we decide we are just going to head home, for now.

3rd stop was in Rochester at Erbert & Gerbert's. BB wanted a Firehouse Sub but there was an issue with the website or the sandwich was out of season. So we went t Erbert's instead. She was planning on ordering online 'when we got closer.' We got really close, I think we were in the parking lot when she realized that she had forgotten to order online. A few people ahead of us but not bad.

I tried their featured Philly instead of my usual and it wasn't that good. Back to my favorite.

4th stop was home.

The first thing I do is get a ride down to the repair shop and pickup the car going to the graveyard. The battery is only two weeks old and is still able to start the car even though it isn't being re-charged. Also there is no power steering because of the issue but there is no traffic so I am able to get it the mile plus home and parked. Now it can sit here until someone hauls it away.

Later our family needs a ride to get their 'new' car. New to them. They looked at one car in person and took the deal. After driving 'crash' for a few years they are not too picky. It has wheels and runs, I'll take it. :)

We are not sure what we are doing Monday yet. We may get in position tomorrow by staying at a hotel closer to our next trip.

Someone finally took the Lincoln truck we had looked at so that is not an option for Monday. Most likely we will do some more auction trucks. The shipper put out eight three days ago, I took two, someone else took one so five are still there. We could get our first one moved by the time anyone else puts any new trips out. We may even do two, or all five if nothing else shows up.

LOG

8:15 - Leave Comfort Inn in DeForest WI

10:00 - Sparta WI - rest area

11:15 - St Charles MN - Loves for fuel

11:45 - Rochester MN - Erbert & Gerbert's

2:00 - home