2 RV's to North Canton OH (delivered)

2 RV's to Greer SC (Tuesday)

... spending the night at Ottawa IL

My breakfast was half of my leftovers from last night. We didn't have a way to keep the rest cold for the day so it got dumped. :(

Hotel had turkey sausage, eggs and lots of fresh fruit. High end for for a Comfort Inn. BB enjoyed it.

We pulled out at 9 AM local (I had thought we were going to be at the drop when they opened, missed something)

1st stop was the Loves for final fuel. It is not lunchtime so BB was able to find a place to park.

Then I drop BB off at the airport and head to the drop.

2nd stop the drop. We had expected a line. One of our RV's was there and already inspected. Plus there were two of another brand that were still being inspected. As I walked by, I talked to the person outside of the RV. They called to someone inside the RV for them to come and inspect my unit.

Before that person came out, another person came from the office and told me I had to first drop my paperwork at the office. ??? Then I told them there was another RV coming, they offered that I could leave and go it it, without me asking.

3rd stop was back at Loves to pick up BB's RV. She followed me back to the drop.

4th stop is the drop, again. I moved all of our stuff from the RV to the car while BB walked her paperwork into the office. Then we went into the office and sat.

... and sat and sat. Last time the inspector brought us our paperwork when they were finished. This time first BB went outside and saw they were done inspecting, or no longer by the RV. When a half hour later we still didn't have our paperwork, I went outside. I walked right past the front desk, but someone with kids was leaving and I didn't want to walk into them so I wasn't looking around.

Still looked like they were done with our RV's. I went back inside and then I saw our paperwork on their desk. No idea how long it had been there. There answer was, we have no idea where drivers go so we don't look. (We were where they told us to go)

We would have liked to have had any of that time for our trip back.

We leave the shipper at 11:30 local, a half hour ahead of our best guess. We want to get some miles behind us before we stop so we don't eat right away.

There had been two trips to the same drop in NC, but one of those was gone shortly after 8 AM and the other was gone with a couple of hours.

5th stop was the rest area in Amhest for food. Burger King. It had the shortest line. The other choices were Popeyes chicken and Panera. Fastest but it still took 20 minutes.

6th stop was Edon at the Loves for fuel. We don't need fuel yet, but it is the cheapest fuel before Davenport.

7th stop is the rest area in Lake Station for the rest room.

Slower traffic today than on Sunday through CGO.

8th stop was the Pilot/Arby's in Minooka for food. Drive thru.

9th and final stop was the Quality Inn in Ottawa, again. Comfort Inn was still full. Hotels were more for less ahead of us.

We did see lots of transporters today. Mostly RV's and step vans.

For driving, the carriers need our daily logs before the end of two weeks. BB had sent hers in last Friday and they still have not updated the computer so she can drive. She sent them in again twice today. And then she called ...

The person's first answer showed she was clueless as to what the issue was or why she was calling. The person kept telling BB that she needed to get her logs sent in ... ah ... that is why BB was calling, she knows, but how? Because the way she has sent them in the last year isn't working this time. No solution so the call ended. With a much frustrated BB.

We had been watching the load board all day. There were some good trips to CA but the weather is not going to be good. So someone else took them. We had talked about how far we would get each day based on the current forecast. It should take an extra two days, which we would have because of the weekend. But, it doesn't take much for the weather to change, or an accident to shut the road down for an extra couple of days.

Finally at 4 PM we decided we would take a sure thing and head back to Greer.

Load board

US - 198

IA - 89/87

MN - 3

WI - 14

SC - 1

Plan is to get going by 7 AM, be in and out of Davenport by 10 AM, to Forest City by 2 PM and back from dropping the car by 4 PM and be to Waterloo by dark at 6 PM. That should keep us ahead of the storm.