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 on the order when I got there. It was close to 8 PM when we ate tonight

Forgot to grab my fuel receipt off the pump after it printed today for truck fuel, now I need to come up with one before I will get paid for the fuel with this company.

Load board

US - 615

IA - 390/389

We hope to deliver the 1st one by noon tomorrow, and the 2nd one by 3 PM. Then from there it is 5-1/2 hours home, so hopefully deliver before 3 PM and we might make it home.

I will try to get something other than a trash truck for my next trip.

(the below is written five days later)

We pull out of our hotel at the usual 7:30. It is about 30 minutes to the drop with four turns so easy to remember.

1st stop is the drop in Hartland - After talking to a couple of different people I get the correct person. He has only been with the company a couple of months and this may be his first inspection. I ask him a few questions but he isn't able to answer most of them.

I do ask him about the dual drive, he has no idea but asks a shop guy who also has no idea. But the shop guy does get in and run the controls. The guy does this from the right side, which means he does have to move the right mirrors to get into the truck. He also lifts the tail gate to make sure there is not anything in the truck. (1st time for that on a garbage truck) On this one the ram is all the way forward and the truck was still 4,000# under legal weight so I am not sure why we are weighing all trucks and not just those with issues.

As soon as we are signed off we drive a mile to a still closed Culvers to do our paperwork and make a phone call. What ever other options dispatch was looking at fell through so I am going back to Carol Stream. Back as in I was just down this same road I will be taking.

2nd stop is at a rest area near Lyndon Station.

3rd stop is for fuel and food at a Loves in St Charles MN. We are in a rush so shelf food it is. I get a roller chicken stick and BB gets a salad.

4th stop is back at Dodge Center to pick up my next truck. No issues again today.

5th stop is the Kwik Trip in Kasson for fuel and scale. This truck is a diesel so I do top it off before scaling. By the time I am done fueling BB is at the pump talking to me. I remember to hang up the pump hose and request a receipt. It will be hours later that I remember that I forgot to grab that receipt.

Then I scale the truck. This one is much closer to being overweight but I am legal.

This one does not have cruise, but it is governed at 65 mph so I can just stand on it all the time. Today is a Mack cabover, it is a much better ride than this mornings truck.

5th stop is at the Mauston Kwik Trip for a rest break. Plan was to fuel here at the Pilot but I do not need fuel yet and may not. It is now after 5 PM and the truck has a check engine light on. So I call dispatch to get cleared to keep driving. With this truck it has not been an issue in the past.

6th stop is the Comfort Inn in DeForest. There is still daylight but it has been 11 hours since we left the hotel this AM.

I call the DeForest Family Restaurant to see what their soup of the day is, nothing I am interested in and the person who answered the phone does not stay on the line. Then we order on-line. When I go to pick up the order they check on it, it has 'just come in,' so I will need to wait. There is only one waitress so things are moving a little slow, three cooks and one waitress.

A few minutes later the waitress brings up my salad. I had already told her once that we had not ordered a salad. So she sets it aside until the correct person walks in.

Then she comes up to me and asks me about my soup, I have not ordered a side. No, I do not want a side (but did she recognize my voice from the phone earlier?) The food is fresh.

That is what I did ... as we were walking out of the hotel room to get food, the door would not lock/latch behind us. So BB stayed in the room and I gave the room key to the front desk clerk. The desk clerk went up to look at the door lock and gave us a new room, BB was almost done moving stuff when I got back to the hotel.

Another late night eating.

LOG

7:30 - Johnson Creek WI - Comfort Inn - leave hotel

8:30 - Hartland WI - customer/drop truck

10:30 - Lyndon Station WI - rest area

12:30 - St Charles MN - Loves - food and fuel

1:30 - Dodge Center MN - shipper

2:30 - Kasson MN - Kwik Trip - fuel/scale

5:15 - Mauston WI - Kwik Trip - rest stop

6:15 - DeForest WI - Comfort Inn

7:00 - DeForest WI - DeForest Family Restaurant