1 trash truck to Springfield MO (delivered)

... spending the night at Grandview MO

BEEP - BEEP - BEEP - BEEP

... it is 12 midnight and the fire alarm is going off. I get up and use the bathroom and go back to bed ... BB gets up and looks out in the hall. People are leaving their rooms, others are looking out there doors. The alarm does not stop so we head down.

By the time we get to the 1st floor the alarm goes off and we start meeting people. Not sure why the alarm went off but the desk clerk did not know how to shut it off so they had to call someone to walk them through it.

We went back to our room and turned off the alarm.

6:45 we wake up without an alarm.

Great bacon for breakfast, the kind that melts in your mouth with lots of flavor.

We end up leaving only a half hour later than usual. The truck next to me has gone so I would have been able to get out if everyone else was still there but there are empty spots. BB moved our car so I would not have sound the backup alarm.

My truck must be ghost this AM near Des Moines. First a van passes me and pulls back in my lane with only a couple of feet between their back bumper and mine ... which meant I had to make room for the trailer they were pulling. I laid on the horn and they kept coming over ... watching me in their mirror ???

A few miles later an old lady came over the white line as she was passing me ... and before I left town a young guy typing on his cell phone came over on me. So I was sounding my horn today. Also sounded it once at a deer that was standing in the ditch, used the truck horn for that one.

1st stop was the Loves in Eagleville for fuel. Fuel pump keypad wasn't working so I had to pay inside. When it was time to leave the people ahead of me hadn't left so I needed to back out.

BB had stopped somewhere at a rest area and then was waiting by my truck when I came back out of Loves.

Two recent incidents before Kansas City. At the 1st one there were two vehicles in the ditch and two people hugging. No officers on the scene yet. At the 2nd there was someone backwards in the median. By the time BB went past the officers were on the scene.

As I am on the ramp from one freeway to the other in south Kansas City I am taking the ramp to fast and one of the alarms starts going off. There are alarms for all kinds of things on these trash trucks, for just about everything that is not 'in place' at highway speeds. This icon looks like it is something on the roof that is out of position. The alarm goes off a couple of minutes and then when I hit a bump it goes off. From then on it is mostly off until I make the turn on to the final street by the drop. Then it comes on again, no more bumps so it stays on while moving.

But it goes off when I stop so I'm good for delivery ... and that is why it goes to a dealer. Pre-delivery inspection. Actually I had an alarm going off when the road was rough ever since I picked this truck up but the beeps were so short that I couldn't see which icon it was. Most likely this one.

2nd stop was for lunch at the Loves in Harrisonville. I got there before BB and by the time BB got there a tour bus had pulled in. So that meant that there was a line at both McD's and Subway. So we had shelf/roller food. We still had sandwiches from Friday but these were the two on the top in the cooler and were warm when BB took them out last night. We brought them with ... and then between not having any mayo :) and them having been warm we decided on roller food. Loves didn't have any mayo either. Maybe could have got some at Subway but would have had to wait in line and if we did that we would have gotten a new sandwich.

When I first got there and again when we were ready to leave I tried calling the drop but no answer.

The rest of the trip was off interstate. I had not looked at a map so I expected two lane road and small towns. Turns out it was four lane all the way and only a couple of 45 mph zones.

BB tried to stop at the Pilot in Collins but took the long way and had to stop and look at directions. That delay and a prior stop in Clinton to read text messages is why I got to the drop before her driving 10 mph slower.

3rd and final stop was the drop. Before I get there I can see open doors ... things are looking up. I get there and find the office. Someone finally looks up at me (no phones ringing, lots of help... no one answers on the weekends?) and mumbles something about weekend delivers and then tells me where to park it. He had mentioned 'inside the fence' but all that is there are semi tractors. What I have is already sold so I park it next to another new trash truck.

He comes out and inspects the truck and I am in and out in under 15 minutes. I again forget to take pictures but I have the truck dropped and we can head back yet tonight.

BB is about five minutes behind me. Once in the car we look at the trips on the load board and decide that none are worth doing from here. We will head back to KC and see what things look like in the AM.

4th stop is the BrakeTime gas station for a restroom.

5th stop is the McCallister for food, BB had ordered ahead on line. Then another block to the Comfort Inn for the night.