2 RV's to Wilmington NC
... spending the night at Davenport IA
Not sure why, but I didn't sleep well. BB is up at 6 AM without an alarm, I am up shortly after.
We decide not to leave until after we can call on trips at 8 AM. We both call a few times and BB gets through. They take down minimal info and say they will call us back.
We are on the road by 8:15 and we are most of the way to our first stop when we finally get our call back. Even though it looked like about 50 trips were taken on Saturday, it looks like another 30 were taken Monday AM.
... oh, and the load board had dropped another 5 this AM from where it had been over the weekend, so someone was able to get trips before they opened today.
By the end of the day the IA load board had dropped 45+ as there were a few new trips that were added today.
1st stop is my clinic. For the first time in 2+ years I had to answer yes to some of their questions. That seemed to confuse them. At first I thought they were just keeping a tally but then they started asking 50 questions. And going over them again to make sure they were in the computer correctly.
... and then, instead of having me wait in the waiting room, they escorted me to the end of a long hall to wait there. But then they got me in and out right away, before everyone else that was waiting. Nurse wasn't sure why I was sitting where I was so I guess it does not happen often ... that someone answers 'yes.'
Good news though. Even with being sick for a week/10 days and not eating right my vitals are still right where they are supposed to be. I expected them to be off as I have been loosing weight again.
Highway department was busy today. In one area they were using a dozer and the other they were using a 4-wheel drive tractor with a blade. The snow in some area's was 6-10 feet high along the road and they were leveling it out, pushing it as far as they could to the trees and fence.
2nd stop is for gas. Gas was under $3 and we wanted to leave the car close to full of fuel.
3rd stop is at the shipper. Lots of people coming and going but no wait. BB had planned ahead on cleaned her license plate and placard before we left this AM. I had to clean mine there, it's time for our new stuff for 2023.
The weather has warmed from 5 degrees to 35 degrees so it was not too bad doing our pre-trip. A few people wanted to talk today, I guess I did not, so BB did most of them talking to them.
It took us a hour to do our pre-trips. About normal.
One guy that had asked me a few questions, asked me why his steps would not come out when he opened that door. I didn't know. I looked at mine, looked at his. No answer.
Later, after I parked the car, I met the local yard man that does the repairs ... he looked at me and said 'Sometimes you just need to use brute force.' As he is carrying his 10# hammer. He was walking back from the other guys RV where the step was stuck. Nope, not something I am going to do. That is his job.
4th stop is in Floyd for fuel and food. We both had enough fuel to get that 50 miles down the road. During that stretch we met a lot of new RV's heading back to the shipper, not sure where or what is being done to them but they are moving them.
This trip we are going to fuel at one pump to save one $1.25 fee each fuel stop. Food is GodFather's. We split one burnt personal sized pizza.
5th stop is the Casey's in Center Point for the rest rooms.
From here we make our reservation for the night. Davenport will be as far as we get.
6th and final stops are in Davenport. First at the Loves for fuel and then inside to Arbey's for food. Then across the highway to the Comfort Inn for the night.
BB takes a walk, I am kind of zapped. I did OK during the day other than getting the chills that I couldn't seem to shake.
Load board
US - 216
IA - 65/63
NC - 4
There were trips that looked good early today. Two trucks from NC back to Fort Wayne, then briefly there were five trucks from Fort Wayne back to NC. We'll see what works. The trips out of IA are not likely to be there when we get back ... if we come back.