220932 MN
Load board (Monday 9/26) US - 189 IA - 35/34 MN - 15 WI - 3 Load board (Wednesday 9/28) US - 235 IA - 31 MN - 23 WI - 2 Load board (Thursday 9/29) US - 231 IA - 14/12 MN - 20 WI - 3 Load board (Friday 9/30) US - 207 IA - 10 MN - 16 WI - 2 Load board (Weekend) US - 203 IA - 7/6 MN - 12 WI - 2
220923 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Omro WI (delivered)... spending the night at home No alarm this AM. Breakfast is hash, sausage and egg bake (?) or egg mix that they didn't scramble. We pull out about 8:30. But first I call local dispatch a couple of times as they don't pickup. The trip they had offered me late yes...
220922 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Omro WI (delivered)... spending the night at Oshkosh WI Breakfast - so, so. BB just are her chili from last night. I got eggs and yogurt. At 1st I thought my eggs were ice cold, then I realized that my hand holding the plate was warm from the eggs. My juice or yogurt must have chill...
220921 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Chillicothe IL... spending the night at North Liberty IA Breakfast, 'fried' eggs, and bacon. We leave the hotel by 7:30, but like all days it is later than that by the time we leave the lot. 1st stop is the shipper in Dodge Center. I have a copy of my paperwork on my phone so I know...
220920 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Germantown WI (delivered) 1 trash truck to Chillicothe IL (Wednesday)... spending the night at Rochester MN 6 AM alarm Rolling by 7 AM (almost) BB had eaten breakfast so we didn't stop for that this AM. We had stopped on Saturday PM for fuel so we were good there. Dispatch wants a r...
220919 MN-
Heading to Milwaukee Tuesday Load board (Friday) US - 116 IA - 0 MN - 29 Load board (weekend) US - 112 IA - 0 MN - 24 Load board (Monday) US - 172 IA - 5 MN - 19 WI - 4
220915 IA-MN
1 trash truck to Dodge Center MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Up before the alarm - bacon for breakfast. I think I remember all of the people we have seen working here from past trips. 1st stop for me is the Fort Snelling Cemetery. BB has to stop and fuel so that gives me time to look u...
220914 IA-MN
1 trash truck to Dodge Center MN (delivered)... spending the night at Albert Lea MN Major change of plans, and un-planned also. It would have been 10 PM by the time we made it home so we used rewards points and shut down before 8 PM. Breakfast - plan was to leave here by 8 AM so we would be in Fores...
220913 IA-UT
2 RV's to Draper UT (delivered)... spending the night at Council Bluffs IA Yogurt for breakfast. We pull out at 8:30 local. 1st stop is still in town. Cheap gas at a convenience store here in Laramie. Busy place but people get in and out quickly. 2nd stop the Loves in Sidney for the rest room. The e...
220912 IA-UT
2 RV's to Draper UT (delivered)... spending the night at Laramie WY Mmmm - we can smell the bacon when we walk out of our room and we are on the 3rd floor on the opposite end of the building. Before we get a chance to see anything else (we look at FaceBook first) we see someone eating Dunkin Donuts...
220911 IA-UT
2 RV's to Draper UT... spending the night at Sandy UT Breakfast - Western omelettes and ring bacon/sausage (?) The person ahead of me took the last omelette so I went to the front desk to make sure they were making more, they were. Good, but a lot of food for breakfast. We rolled out about 7:30 loca...
220910 IA-UT
2 RV's to Draper UT... spending the night at Sidney NE Breakfast - eggs and sausage. No slow downs for 'rush hour' traffic on a Saturday AM. Glad I went back out last night and got my jacket. It is down in the 50's this AM. I kept my jacket on until noon when the sun came out and had my heat on most...
220909 IA-UT
1 Straight truck to Coralville IA (delivered) 2 RV's to Draper UT... spending the night at Ankeny IA:) I'm still alive:) BB said yesterday that I would get food poisoning if I ate the day out cheese curds. I didn't. I had eaten about a 1/4th of them the night I got them, then another 1/4th for break...
220908 MN-IA
1 'Mixer'/Chassis to Granite Falls MN (delivered) 1 Straight truck to Coralville IA 2 RV's to Draper UT (Friday)... spending the night at Cedar Rapids IA Breakfast - we both ate leftovers in our room. We are ready to pull out at our usual time of 7:30. Plan was to add a couple of gallons of fuel nea...
220907 CO-MN
1 'Mixer'/Chassis to Granite Falls MN 1 Straight truck to Coralville IA (Thursday)... spending the night at Marshall MN Breakfast - Walking down the haul I realized we did not get 'breakfast coupons' when we checked in... then I remembered that we did not stay at that hotel last night.:) Ahhh there...
220906 CO-MN
1 'Mixer'/Chassis to Granite Falls MN... spending the night at Grand Island NE I was barely up when dispatch called this AM. I had emailed them last night saying they could call anytime after 7 AM their time/6 AM my time and they did. I got the trip, CO to MN. They emailed my paperwork but this hote...
220905 IA-CA
... spending the night at Denver CO Up before the alarm. Slept good but... not ready to spend an extra three hours in the car at the Nat'l Park and guessing it will be too hot to walk anywhere. Bacon and eggs... dry eggs. They brought out the fresh ones when I was leaving. Bacon was good. 1st stop w...
220904 IA-CA
... spending the night at Green River UT Breakfast - bacon, eggs, potatoes, juice. We fuel next door at the Flying J before heading out. 1st stop is a rest area near Nipton before leaving CA at a rest area. We noticed the casino in Jean did not have any cars by it so BB looked online. It is one of t...
220903 IA-CA
... spending the night at Livermore CA Breakfast, same hotel, same as yesterday. About 8 AM we took a walk around the city streets for a half hour. 9 AM we checked out and headed to San Leandro. Today there were signs on the freeway near 'our' outlet mall warning of delays and long lines. 1st stop i...
220902 IA-CA
... spending the night at Livermore CA No work, we are heading home. No reason to get up, nowhere to go. Not much for breakfast at this place. Breakfast area only has one table in the middle of the room and two small ones against the wall that I have never seen used. They are finally back to having...
220901 IA-CA
2 RV's to Fremont CA (delivered)... spending the night at Livermore CA No alarm. We are two hours time difference and we aren't going to pull out until 8:30 local. Breakfast, eggs, sausage... and a piece of French toast. They had time cut in strips and I took one strip with syrup. And as usual I put...
220831 IA-CA
2 RV's to Freemont CA... spending the night at Rocklin CA Breakfast - BB had leftovers from the food truck from last night. I got hotel food. Eggs, sausage, nothing special but it is better than the Ho-Ho's and Ding-Dongs they had during the height of Covid. After looking online last night and doing...
220830 IA-CA
2 RV's to Freemont CA... spending the night at Wendover UT 6 AM local - breakfast is eggs and sausage. 1st stop is Rawlins at Flying J for our rest stop. WOW! I have been mentioning my carrier on FaceBook since I joined the driveaway groups at the beginning of Covid 2+ years ago... and today I got m...
220829 IA-CA
2 RV's to Freemont CA... spending the night at Laramie WY Alarm at 6 AM Breakfast was... interesting. The only hot food was gravy. Their main fridge only had butter in it, the milk and yogurt was in a larger, temp fridge that didn't seem to be much cooler than room temp. I had one yogurt and BB had...
220828 IA-CA
2 RV's to Freemont CA... spending the night at Lincoln NE No alarm but up by 6 AM, out of house by 8 AM. No rush. 1st stop is for fuel at Kwik Trip in Owatonna because my range was dropping too fast. We had planned on stopping in Ellendale where gas was a lot cheaper. Kwik Trip did give me a random...
220826 IA-CA
2 RV's to Freemont CA... spending the night at home Load board (Friday) US - 342 IA - 149 We were still stuck in traffic when it was 8 AM. We called on both of our phones, but by the time someone answered one of the ones we wanted was gone and we listened to the last one being taken when we were put...
220826 MN DOT
Load board (Wednesday) US - 303 IA - 129/128 MN - 2 Load board (Thursday) US - 413 IA - 153
220819 MN DOT
Load board (Thursday) US - 194 IA - 49/47 MN - 9 Load board (Friday) US - 176 IA - 69/66 MN - 2 Load board (weekend) US - 197 IA - 70/67 MN - 9 Load board (Monday) US - 235 IA - 72/70 MN - 3 Load board (Tuesday US - 283 IA - 98 MN - 3 Likely heading out on Sunday. We will either be able to pick a tr...
220817 MN DOT
Load board US - 209 IA - 41/39 MN - 9 I PASSED:)... and then I call the Dr back:( This location will only accept the info from them, on the day of the test. Not sure how I have been able to do it the other way for the last few years but not here. So now I have another complete physical set for Monda...
220816 MN DOT
Load board US - 160 IA - 31 MN - 7 Today is OK, I pass again...:) I do see the receptionist who helped me yesterday who gave me the 'thumbs up,' or something close. I get another message about lab work appt for today, this time it seems have cleared them from my computer. Then later I get a call fro...
220815 MN DOT
Load board US - 131 IA - 14/13 MN - 1 Interesting day. I start out by calling my DOT physical clinic. They had offered to set up the appointments last Wednesday but I wanted to make sure my BP was down before starting to test. But the person I talk to today says 'no can do.' So I call my usual clini...
220811 MN DOT
Load board (Thursday) US - 140 IA - 20/19 MN - 10 Load board (Friday) US - 138 IA - 12 MN - 9 Load board (weekend US - 121 IA - 10 MN - 6 Nothing new.
220810 MN DOT
Load board US - 129 IA - 15/14 MN - 5 FAILED ! (but passed) My companies have stricter requirements than the DOT, so I passed but now I need to satisfy my companies before I can start driving. I can still hear the whisper, I still have 20/30 vision... the new cheaters I bought did not help on the te...
220809 MN DOT
Load board US - 88 IA 4/3 MN - 4 Dr never called back yesterday or this AM so I called them a little after 9 AM. The called me by name ??? Either they have caller ID even on the network phones or I was the only person they had not called back. I now have an appointment at 2:20 tomorrow. We will see...
220808 MN DOT
Load board (weekend) US - 92 IA - 14/12 MN - 4 Load board (Monday) US - 80 IA - 9/7 MN - 1 I had left a message with my main Dr on Thursday AM before we left the hotel. No message back on either Thurs, Fri or Sat. I had decided to try again by 10 AM and about 9:30 I get the message they do not want...
220805 MN DOT
(I started a page... but now it is four days later) At some point there was 3 RV's coming to MN and one trash truck in MN going to IA. Local work but we sat it out... with my BP going up, not down as I wait for a call back... Load board US - 99 IA - 18 MN - 5