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 usual time. Finding the truck was easy, we know some of them by their colors now. This seemed to be the only one on the lot for this customer. About the time I am in the truck, I get a call from dispatch wondering if I picked up yesterday. I had sent them a message but no one replied so I spent the day doing yard work (and can feel it) instead.
This is a front loader so I need to scale it for this carrier. This one is under by over 1,000# so I am good to go.
This one only goes 60 mph so it'll take an extra half hour to get to the drop from what we had planned.
BB stops other places, she does not like following me at anything less than 65 mph. I stop and get a bottle of juice at the Flying J in Evansdale. Plan was for me to stop again at the TA I-80 truckstop in Walcott but I'm not going to need anymore fuel. This truck likes 60 mph.
But ... we are going on I-88 so I need to stop and see if I need an I-pass. I don't have one with me, they are all in BB's car. After checking a couple of places I feel assured I don't need one. I had stopped at a rest area to do that checking.
I have looked at a map of my drop, but something didn't look right on the ground. I get about where I should be and there is a street with no sign going into the industrial park. I turn but realize this is not right. Then I look at the company's printed map. It shows a side street going to where I need to be. Nope, no street there. So I look at Google Maps. I turned one street too soon.
I thought I should have been able to see the customer from the main street and I can. Just a few minutes lost. But ... those few minutes mean I can not call on any east coast based shipments as they leave at 4 PM (central time.)
Just as I am pulling into the drop, my phone rings. It is local dispatch checking to see if I am available for another trip tomorrow. I tell them I will call them back in a few.
By the time I collect some of my stuff, the person who will check the truck in is walking in my direction. He askes where I came from, I tell him, he says "that's far enough in that truck." :) He knows ...
As soon as I am signed off, BB and I talk and then call local dispatch back. It is a trip from Menomonie to MLW. And it is not a cab over trash truck. It would have worked nicer if we were already home, but it is better than anything on the OTR load board. The IL to KS trip is still there ... maybe next time.
We stop at Arthur's Deli in town. They are out of chicken salad :( So I get a ham and cheese. Great bread. Deserts looked good too but we have enough of that kind of food with us.
We drive until Portage when it is almost 7 PM and we are down to 7 miles range on fuel. We had talked of driving another hour to Mouston but kind of glad we didn't.
I was ready to crash when we got here and then when we get to our room we see a pile of towels by our door. Dirty towels. And only one clean bath towel in the room. So I have to find the help again, we had to wait when we checked in because they were not at the desk then either. Now they gave us a whole set of clean towels.
Then when I went down to print my paperwork for tomorrow, the computer does not have an extra port for me to plug into. And I tried to email it to myself but it wants to do a security check on me and I can see the names of the last few people who have used their accounts on this computer. I didn't try to see if I can hack them but I'm guessing at least one out of that list I could have. Not worth it to me.
I ask the front desk to print from my jump drive but no. They will print if I email it to them so I do. And the print one copy the wrong way so it is very small print. I'm done for the night.
Loadboard
US - 127
IA - 1/0
MN - 12
WI - 2
Hope to pick up by 11 AM and drop by 3 PM. Customer is open until 5 PM. Then ?