1 bus to Minneapolis MN (delivered)

... spending the night at home

We are overlooking a truck stop and didn't hear a thing all night.

Breakfast was ? eggs, and ring sausage. definitely Instant.

I head out to start the bus before grabbing breakfast. Weather in the area is -3 degrees.

When I am ready to leave, the bus has been running for over a half hour and is up to 20 degrees. We head out at 7:30 AM. I head out and BB goes back in for more coffee. I spend most of my trip at 62 mph, as fast as I can go. BB is just a few minutes later, to start with, and spends most of her time at 45 mph.

The 'tire tracks' were glazed so most of the trucks I was following were running in the left lane, until we caught up to 45 mph trucks passing 40 mph trucks.

1st stop was the Holiday truckstop. I can't turn on their pump without a frequent fueler card so I go inside and get both fuel and DEF turned on. Steady line of trucks coming in but I was able to get a pump.

I started running the fuel pump slow but it was cold so I 'set' the flow and waited inside my bus. Too slow, so once I was warmer, I braved the cold and ran the nozzle. I was only putting in 15 gallons this AM. I had stuck the tank before I fueled and again afterwards, but not at the drop. It should have been pretty close.

When I pull around to the wash, I see a sun dog. BB sees them later and gets a good picture of them while waiting for me.

One washout in the truckwash, three bays. So I am in and out quickly. I did hop out and take a picture of the bus when it was clean to show I had had it washed. I didn't realize it would be steaming. Interesting picture.

I know the area where the drop is, so no notes today. There was a crash just before the exit so I had thought about exiting one exit sooner but by that time traffic had merged and was moving again.

2nd stop was the drop. I called my contact instead of walking around looking. Someone picked up and directed me to the correct place. Found the person and they did a quick inspection.

They asked about one panel being off. I admitted it. We had taken it off to adjust the temp and this AM I couldn't get it back on.

This guy did get it back on. Then commented that it hasn't been taken off enough times to slide back on with ease.

Too cold today. I did not take off the plastic, they can do that once it is inside.

Once the paperwork is signed he drives me to my waiting car. One driver dropped yesterday and the other, likely the one I talked to, called and said they would drop later today.

I did the following math on this trip.

1,986 - shortest miles/time

2,048 - paid miles

2,050 - Google miles << we took this route

2,055 - miles driven

... stops included

Port of Entry - 1

Rest Area - 3

Hotels - 4

Truck stops - 11

Forecast for the rest of the week is 3 of 4 days the highs will be below -0-. So we stop and get food, sometimes we eat out the whole time we are home. This time we may not leave the house for four days. Local dispatch will find out in the AM if they are even going to be able to pick up buses. The shipper won't release them in bad weather. But they still want them delivered by the end of the month.

We stopped at Walmart and then Bub's for food. 'cept Bub's is now closed on Monday's and Tuesday's. So we headed home to shovel. Too frozen to shovel where it had been driven on, which was most of the driveway. It'll be warmer next week, when I am working.

Load board

US - 225

IA - 5/2

MN - 3

WI - 12

No plans yet to work again. Spent the rest of the day catching up on paperwork.