2023 06 29 MN-IL
We made it home, zapped. Likely done working for a couple of weeks because of vacation. 1 RV to Duluth MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Lots of tossing and turning last night. Sometime during the night I woke up and smelled something awful. I thought it was my sweat, but worse and differ...
2023 06 28 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Rock Island IL (delivered) 1 RV to Duluth MN (Thursday)... spending the night at Charles City IA Still achy or fighting something so another rough night. Do feel better than yesterday but not great. Moving pretty slow. I had yogurt and a pastry instead of eggs and sausage this AM. W...
2023 06 27 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Hartland WI (delivered) 1 trash truck to Rock Island IL (Wednesday)... spending the night at La Crosse WI Up and down for breakfast. As we are leaving the hotel someone asks me something which I don't understand so I just say no and keep walking. When I go back in for my receipt, I...
2023 06 26 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Rock Falls IL (delivered) 1 trash truck to Hartland WI (Tuesday)... spending the night at Portage WI BB was up early, I thought I was too. But I tried to shower and eat breakfast the same morning and we ended up getting out at our usual time. Which meant we got to the shipper at our...
2023 06 25 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Rock Falls IL (Monday)... spending the night at home It's the weekend and we had plans for both days so no work. Then I looked closer and both plans are for Saturday so we can leave Sunday. I email dispatch but they do not reply so we will wait and leave out Monday. We had thought a...
2023 06 23 MN-IA
1 trash truck to Des Moines IA (delivered) 1 trash truck to Rock Falls IL (Monday)... spending the night at home No bacon today, but they did still have their grape juice. Our room is facing the truckstop and I never heard the trucks all night. Or it was a steady noise so I didn't notice it. BB lets...
2023 06 22 WI-MN
1 box truck to Fridley MN (delivered) 1 trash truck to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Albert Lea MN We go down for breakfast. Everything is empty, no eggs, no meat, no milk. We take 2 of the last 3 yogurts. I go to the front desk and stand there, they don't look up from their phone until I s...
2023 06 21 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Muskego WI (delivered) 1 box truck to Fridley MN (Thursday)... spending the night at Janesville WI Awoke to an alarm this AM.:( We are out of the house just about on time. One and a half hours to Dodge Center. No issues. Dispatcher is sitting on his deck when we get there, with a wa...
2023 06 20 MN-WI
1 RV to Chippewa Falls WI (delivered) 1 Vac truck to Elgin IL (Canceled) 1 trash truck to Muskego WI (Wednesday)... spending the night at home BB is up earlier, I am up early but I take longer to get ready today. We do leave a little after 7 instead of the planned 7:30. Non-stop trip to Forest City....
2023 06 19 IA-WI
1 RV to Chippawa Falls WI (Tuesday)... spending the night at home ))) Hmm... no write-up but found work. BB did this trip as she hadn't worked for a month. I called on it because BB wanted to play 20 questions and with no trips on the load board, these trips go within second or minutes. This ended u...
2023 06 17 MN
Sunday I drove through the local work parking lot and there were two trucks, one that was sitting there last weekend and the other was a tanker going to IN. And only two drivers cars out so that means they do not, should not need me as a driver on Monday. We've done the IN, not a bad trip but they n...
2023 06 16 MN-MN
1 mixer (trash truck) to Gilbert MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Bacon was good, egg patties were good, juice might have been 'enhanced water,' it was a hand written sign. We ended up getting going a little later than usual instead of a little earlier than usual. We could have gotten to...
2023 06 15 WI-MN
1 box truck to Fridley MN (delivered) 1 mixer to Gilbert MN (Friday)... spending the night at Owatonna MN Almost all the truckers are gone by the time we get down for breakfast. Such as it is. People were taking a very long time to do the most basic things. I got my eggs and sausage and we went back...
2023 06 14 IA-MO
1 RV to St Louis MO (delivered) 1 box truck to Fridley MN (Thursday)... spending the night at Janesville WI BB had crashed early last night so she was up at 5 AM, I was up closer to our usual but still a little early. Breakfast for me was two cups of yogurt, when one will do. Big trucks are supposed...
2023 06 13 IA-MO
1 RV to St Louis MO... spending the night at North Liberty IA Wanting to work, but not bad enough to do a trash truck... yet. MN added a few this AM before the start of dispatching. A few are within my range for driving those but hoping for something better. Then WI puts a dozen trucks out, some com...
2023 06 11 MN
Loadboard (Friday) US - 115 IA - 1/0 MN - 3 WI - 1 Loadboard (weekend) US - 109 IA - 1/0 MN - 2 WI - 1 Loadboard (Monday) US - 87 IA -0- MN - 3 WI -0- Saturday - I did call central (main) dispatch. There was a trip out of Davenport to Davenport. I thought it was wrong so I called them. It was correc...
2023 06 08 MN
Work amounted to driving to the office to turn in my paperwork from yesterdays trips. I had told them yesterday that I could be available Thursday and or Friday but they didn't mention anything, and I didn't ask again. I had a few reasons to go to the office, drop my paperwork, find my phone and che...
2023 06 07 MN-MN
1 tanker to Eagan MN (delivered) 3 trucks to Lake Elmo MN (delivered)... spending the night at home We had breakfast and were ready to head out at our usual time. I hadn't looked at a map yet so BB showed me our choices. Down the main street we are on and turn when I see the dead end sign. We are tw...
2023 06 06 IL-MN
1 trash truck to Carol Stream IL (delivered) 1 tanker to Eagan MN 3 trucks to Lake Elmo MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Eagan MN At breakfast this AM we had a choice of sausage or ham. Another difference, today for juice they had OJ, cranberry and lemonade. Usually there is apple juice. Beca...
2023 06 05 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Carol Stream IL 1 tanker to Eagan MN (Tuesday)... spending the night at Schaumburg IL I called our main OTR dispatcher early and asked how long I could put a truck on hold... "15 minutes." Called back later and said I wanted to put the truck on hold now and was talking to a differen...
230602 MN
... spending the night at home Sent local dispatch an email early AM, no reply so I called shortly after noon. We talked, they looked at all their upcoming trips. The only one that would work for me was going to Streator IL. And the only thing going TO Streator is chassis so they double checked. Yes...