220401 IL-MN
1 cement mixer heading to Merrillville IN (delivered) 1 boom truck heading to Lake Elmo MN (stagged)... spending the night at home Breakfast was eggs and sausage. We were both up early so we thought we might get going early but that did not happen. The drop had opened at 7 AM but we left our hotel a...
220331 MN-IN
1 cement mixer heading to Merrillville IN 1 (?) truck heading to Lake Elmo MN (Friday)... spending the night at Merrillville IN BIG NEWS early this AM, the pay to move all IA RV's is going up. Another 11 hour day. We hope to drop first thing in the AM and pick up the next one by 10 AM and head home....
220330 MN-IL
1 trash truck heading to Elk Grove Village IL 1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL... spending the night at Rochester MN We are both up early, eat a light breakfast and are ready to go. Every minute we can cut leaves more time for our next leg of the trip, and for things to go wrong. For coming...
220329 MN-IL
1 trash truck heading to Lake Elmo (staged) 1 straight truck heading to IL... spending the night at Janesville WI 12 hour day today... more later At 8 AM the paperwork was ready for me to go to IN, by 10 AM I was changed to go to IL. At noon, dispatch wanted me to go to Rock Island IL with a bus on...
220328 IN-WI
1 straight truck heading to IN (delivered) 1 straight truck heading to WI (delivered) 1 trash truck heading to Lake Elmo (staging-Tuesday) 1 straight truck heading to IN (Tuesday)... spending the night at Rochester MN Breakfast - only the juice was out, everything else had to be handed to us by the...
220327 MN-IN
1 straight truck heading to IN 1 straight truck heading to WI (Monday)... spending the night at Elkhart IN We leave out at our usual 7:30, today without breakfast. 1st stop is the office to pick up my truck. One of the shuttle vans are gone so they are taking drivers somewhere to head out today. The...
220326 MN-IN
1 straight truck heading to IN (Sunday) 1 straight truck heading to WI (Monday)... spending the night at home Today's work was just dropping off one car and picking up the other a few miles away. We dropped off a white Toyota Camry and I thought maybe our next one would be also but we got a Honda in...
220325 MN-IN
1 straight truck heading to IN (Sunday) 1 straight truck heading to WI (Monday)... spending the night at home Breakfast - cold eggs and long sausages. And good yogurt. We got up on time but left the hotel later than usual. I did call a dispatcher in IN about a trip, the trip is a 'cube truck.' A sma...
220324 MN-MO
1 tanker heading to Bridgeton MO (delivered)... spending the night at Waterloo IA Breakfast - Grab and go. We grabbed a burrito and after some digging, found a yogurt that was not peach. Orange juice was good, what was supposed to be apple was water. No one around to complain to. We leave out at 7:3...
220323 MN-MO
1 tanker heading to Bridgeton MO... spending the night at North Liberty IA Breakfast - I was going to go for the yogurt but then I saw bacon, so I had eggs, bacon and papaya juice. We left out about 7:30. When we left there was a car transporter parked in the middle of the lot, I'm guessing they had...
220322 MN-IL
1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL (breakdown) 1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL (delivered) 1 tanker heading to Bridgeton MO (Wednesday)... spending the night at Black River Falls WI Breakfast - Very vocal man was in charge of the breakfast area, diligent in cleaning every table after...
220321 MN-IL
1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL... spending the night at De Forest WI After I delivered, I called in for my next trip. I got the Carol Stream, plus there is one in a shop less than an hour from the drop also going to the drop. Tonight we had ordered online for food but they hadn't started o...
220320 MN-WI
1 trash truck heading to Heartland WI 1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL (Monday-maybe)... spending the night at Johnson Creek WI No alarm but up at the usual time. We pull out at 8:30. No stops before we get to the shipper this AM, it is a quiet Sunday morning drive. 1st stop is the shipper....
220319 MN-WI
1 trash truck heading to Heartland WI (Sunday) 1 trash truck heading to Carol Stream IL (Monday-maybe)... spending the night at home Actually those two trips were set up yesterday, I just did not list them in my header. 2 AM - WIDE AWAKE (I woke up because of 'old people's issues, but) once I was aw...
220318 MN-MN
1 tanker heading to MI (stagged) 1 bus heading to IL (Failed inspection)... spending the night at home This place does not serve breakfast ;) so we will eat an early lunch. 1st stop is the office to pick up paperwork. I see the 'senior driver,' he has been there 20+ years. He is the only driver who...
220317 MN-MN
1 tanker heading to MI (Friday) 1 bus heading to IL (Friday)... spending the night at home No breakfast served here:) (we are at home) We pull out at 7:30 to get the rental car returned by 8:30. I haven't gotten back to taking pictures at the cemetery yet, so I head to the cell phone parking area an...
220316 NY-IN
1 RV heading to Elkhart IN (delivered)... spending the night at home Big breakfast area, almost nothing for food. Two waffle makers, a fridge, juice machine and a Hostess tray. Heading out as the sun is coming up. I have taken my I-pass down. I have created a problem that may take days, but hopefull...
220315 NY-IN
1 RV heading to Elkhart IN... spending the night at Sandusky OH Slept good last night. Surprisingly, as I ate way too much food last night. I had about an eight inch tin foil container of chicken alfredo. At home I likely would have split it into three days instead of eating it all in one sitting, p...
220314 IA-VT
2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT (delivered) 1 RV heading to Elkhart IN (Tuesday)... spending the night at Latham NY More later (again) I was waiting for a CGO bus out of NY today but all they got were 4 NYC buses. I had also called on a tanker from MA to MN but after talking to the shipper I found...
220313 IA-VT
2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT... spending the night at Rutland VT Rough morning. Not only are we in a new time zone we are back on daylight savings. A two hour time difference getting up from yesterday. Two hours earlier. 71 miles to go Breakfast was bacon and eggs. This place also had Malt-oMeal...
220312 IA-VT
2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT... spending the night at Painsville OH Time change Will writeup later Lake Erie, Ekko driver, Evening food (it is now six days later. My mind might be a little foggy on the details) We leave out of Walcott at 7 AM. Breakfast is a no-name nuke sandwich. There is also...
220311 IA-VT
2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT... spending the night at Walcott IA Breakfast was... a leftover half sandwich from last night. Good news. My weight free fall has stopped. Losing weight isn't bad but I had no idea why. I was loosing about two pounds a month for the last four months. When I get back...
220310 IA-VT
2 RV's heading to Montpelier, VT (Friday)... spending the night at home Alarm wakes us up today Ready to roll at 7 AM local (6 AM home time) We grab breakfast on the way out the door. Yogurt and juice. This place did have 'to-go' containers but anything else would have been too hard to eat in the ca...
220309 NC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC (delivered)... spending the night at Richmond IN We have given up, we are deadheading home. But this AM... We finished our leftovers from last night, even split in two it was still too much food. Nothing was showing up on the load board so at 9 AM I finally call the local...
220308 NC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC (delivered)... spending the night at Durham NC I am sick ))) no not really ((( But it doesn't feel good to still be sitting here knowing all our profit from our first trip is disappearing and the 2nd leg trips that do show up are very close to break even trips. By tomorrow...
220307 IA-SC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC (delivered)... spending the night at Durham NC Pretty skimpy breakfast for a Comfort Inn. Yogurt and juice for both of us. We head out at 7 AM (8 local.) 1st stop is the Spinx for fuel. Once we fuel, BB parks her RV and gets in and rides with me. Then next 'stop' is the ai...
220306 IA-SC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC... spending the night at Greenville SC Usual breakfast. It doesn't start until 7 AM but that is 6 AM for us so that works. 1st stop is in Waddy for fuel at a Loves. I hadn't planned on fueling yet but I can see I am not going to make it so I put in a few more gallons. Rain...
220305 IA-SC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC... spending the night at Columbus IN Breakfast, we both had breakfast this AM. Eggs... plus I had sausage and juice. We pull out at 7:30 - It is just us and the other semi that was having issues backing in last night. Yesterday I wasn't able to use the cruise control at al...
220304 IA-SC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC... spending the night at Cedar Rapids IA We still have snow on the ground at my house in MN. There are some food items that I put in our compost pile and I did that this AM before leaving. I was able to walk most of the way across our yard on top of the snow. There were on...
220303 IA-SC
2 RV's heading to Greer SC (Friday)... spending the night at home 8 AM I call, then call back because it goes to voicemail. 1st I get a non-dispatcher and then a dispatcher... in the background I can hear them both wanting the same paperwork and then one of them asks who for... both were grabbing it...