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 coming back to MN and IA but my guess is they won't pay much. But put the two together and we might do OK.
Finally, after 11 AM IA puts out four RV's, they are gone within minutes. But we get one. Going to St Louis. It is under our 500 mile chase limit but we have a 150 miles to get to the RV so not really under our limit. But it will pay more than sitting home.
BB wants to wait until tomorrow, I'm ready to go. We have been sitting for almost a week.
... I guess I could have watered the garden in the AM ... too late now.
We do leave almost right away. Chances of them putting anything out that will match to what we have AND that we get it is very slim. As far as we know, that is all they put out today. Yesterday it was 3-4 they put out all day also.
We left before lunch so we stop at Honey Baked in Burnsville and took it to go.
Get to Forest City a little after 2 PM. Surprising there are actually two other drivers getting ready to leave also. Maybe they are putting more out than we realize but it just goes so fast that we don't see it.
With it being a small RV and two of us checking it over it only takes a few minutes. All is good and we are ready to roll. I have a quarter tank of fuel so I chance it. Range says 40 miles and we have 55 miles to cheap fuel.
The fuel gauge drops to one bar with three miles to go to the station. Gas is under $3 here so I fill up my tank. I have another 400 miles to go and think the chances of getting 20 mpg are slim ... I have a range of 316 when I pull out of the station.
120 miles later, I have a range of 360+. I am getting over 20 mpg and will likely be leaving over that quarter of a tank of fuel. But I will still be putting $$ in my pocket, just not as much. I need to start keeping track of fuel mileage, but every RV is different, even with the same name on the side the inside is different.
Two hours from fuel will be Pepper Jax in Cedar Rapids. It's always worth the stop. Could have split a sandwich.
Our options were stay in town, drive another half hour where the hotel is $30 cheaper or drive another hour and a half to Mount Pleasant. We go for the close cheap hotel. It will leave us five hours for tomorrow but the drop doesn't close until 4 PM so we should be good.
Once we check in, we go for a short walk. It's warm and neither of us have walked for a week. I go out in the garden a couple of times a day but different mussels.
Loadboard
US - 119
IA - 1/0
MN - 4
WI - 12
Nothing on the loadboard in MO or IL. There are trucks in Janesville WI going to MN and IA and we go right through Janesville heading home from MO. And there are still two trucks in MN going to IL and one MN going to north of DUL.
Today is Tuesday, we will drop tomorrow and MAYBE get to WI by tomorrow night. If we pickup in WI in the AM, it is another six hours to MN and then I would like to pick up the next truck yet Thursday PM. If not, I really don't like trying to make it to CGO in one day up against the weekend.
There is also a rental truck in MN going to KS. We could check to see if we could pick that up over the weekend. Or we get another weekend off.
Moving just one RV is at the low end of the trips we take, if we head home without more work ... this is the kind of trips where we would have to work all 30 days to pay the bills.