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 car.

No traffic coming into INDY but once on the beltway the traffic came to a stop. And then stop and go. We finally got to the problem, there had been an accident on the oncoming traffic and the fire department had three lanes blocked. In our direction it was just a gawkers slowdown.

The snow is gone so we are back to using the Lebanon to Crawfordsville shortcut.

1st stop is Crawfordsville at the Pilot for fuel. I had hoped to have time to call while we were there but we were in and out quick so BB drove from here and I called.

Dispatch - 1st they said they were paying an extra $100 for old trips. I told them I thought it was more than that so I got put on hold. Then it was $200 on the oldest trips so that is what we took.

We are heading to VT.

BB pulls over at the next exit and we switch drivers so she had book our cars.

NOPE - We had checked to make sure we could get cars before we agreed to take this trip but we hadn't made reservations. Now there are no cars near our drop. We will need to re-route and deliver one RV at a time. Different logistics and actually less money but more miles on the RV's.

We do get the rental car home and we should make money heading directly home which is our plan. We will deliver Monday and I planned, planned, on working for my 2nd company starting Tuesday. Now that will be delayed.

2nd stop is the rest area near Farmers City. I make a call to the east coast bus dispatcher. I haven't talked to them in four ?? years. They ask if I am OKed for buses, I am. They asked for my driver number to confirm, they did. And I told them I had worked for the other two bus dispatchers. They said call back tomorrow once I am in route. Maybe this will not be a one way trip ... and we will make even more money.

The buses are about a half hour, via ferry, from where we pick up the rental car.

3rd stop was the Steak n Shake. Stop two was because too many places do not have their lobbies open anymore for us to be able to use the restrooms. We were not taking any chances.

Steak n Shake was not as good today, too dry. Both the bun and the meat. We had wanted Culver's but they didn't open until 10:30 and we were eating 'lunch' at 10 AM.

4th stop was fuel in Davenport. We don't need fuel yet but it is cheaper here than anywhere. It all helps. Speedy just opened a new station with truck islands so Flying J and Loves are matching their low prices. Thank you. $.30 gallon cheaper than anywhere between here and home.

5th stop is fuel (again) in Floyd at the BP this time. Same price as Loves but we have gift cards we want to use.

6th stop was in Forest City to pick up our car. I also dropped off our paperwork, talked to another driver and picked up more log books.

New calves. The one farmer that has a few cattle next to his building has a few new calves today, new enough that they were running and kicking up their heals.

Between Forest City and the freeway I saw that the car ahead of me hit the shoulder to avoid something in the road. That something was a deer. When talking to BB later she said the deer was still kicking when she went by a couple of minutes ahead of me. Daylight, clear day, open fields for two miles on both sides of the road before you get to trees or brush.

BB stopped once more at the Holiday next to the airport. The first pump she went to would not pump. So she tired shutting off the car and a few other things. Then she moved to the next pump, same thing. It wouldn't pump so she called me to see what she was missing. As she is talking to me, someone comes on the PA at the station to tell customers they are out of regular grade fuel. Now she knows, she only needs a couple of gallons but she has to pay $.30 more per gallon or find another station. Neither of us knew where that other station was.

7th stop was the airport to drop the car. Rare, but today there was someone checking in cars. So BB pointed out the crack in the windshield. We had not noticed it the first two days, and we should have an eye for this ??? The person checking pointed out the 'x' near the crack, that means someone has already has put the issue into the system ... so SHOULDN'T be any worries

We stopped at Zupas for food before going home.

Home for 12+ hours and leaving again. Hope to stay behind the storm or we will shut down.

As of now there is an RV in IN coming back to MN. The truck in OH coming back to MN was gone some time today.

Load board

US - 575

IA - 338/331

Tomorrow we plan on heading out by 9 AM, getting our RV's by noon and get a 100 plus miles down the road. 1,400 miles total and we would like to be close to the rental car place Monday morning if the weather allows. If not, we sit.