2023 09 09 WI-IN
1 tree truck to Fort Wayne In (delivered)... spending the night at home Breakfast... was last nights leftovers (again) plus some juice and fruit for later. With no alarm and no plan we head about on time. The ramp to I-65 to I-80 is closed so instead of following the detour we make our own. Next tim...
2023 09 08 WI-IN
1 tree truck to Fort Wayne In (delivered)... spending the night at Merrillville IN Breakfast was... leftovers. Half my leftovers, the rest we dumped. Too much food. About 7:30 we pull out of the hotel. In just over a half hour later we are at our first stop... to pick up my phone. It was laying on t...
2023 09 07 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Elk Grove IL (delivered) 1 tree truck to Fort Wayne In (Thursday)... spending the night at Kenosha, WI Breakfast was... This place had been a Microtel and it doesn't look like much has changed but the name. I think the most cars we ever counted was five. Looking closer shortly befor...
2023 09 06 IL-IA
1 box truck to Des Moines IA (delivered) 1 trash truck to Elk Grove IL (Thursday)... spending the night at Owatonna MN BB is up early, then I'm up early. We go down and get breakfast before calling dispatch at 7 AM. At some point I finally remember to check my BP. Usually I do it every morning withi...
2023 09 05 IA-PA
1 RV to Burlington WI (delivered)... spending the night at Rockford IL BB is up early so we are down for breakfast and back before 8 AM local. Our plan had been to move whichever RV to MI had the latest close time... but dispatch didn't have any idea when the close times were. Luckily, I remembered...
2023 09 04 IA-PA
2 RV's to Hershey PA (delivered)... spending the night at Maumee OH Breakfast, we came down late because we had no where to go. And we found out why the hotel was full and the parking lot was empty. Tour bus(s) Two people working to keep the food items full. I got the last of the bacon, then they sw...
2023 09 03 IA-PA
2 RV's to Hershey PA... spending the night at Harrisburg PA After breakfast, I went out and 'stood by my RV' until BB got out there. Then decided that was it. No more for me. BB needs fuel now, I do not so she goes and fuels while I am doing my inspection. BB had made all the plans for today, last n...
2023 09 02 IA-PA
2 RV's to Hershey PA... spending the night at Holiday City PA BB is in a rush this AM to get down for breakfast... and we get down before they start. As do a few others. Once the eggs are there we grab some and head back to our room. We pull out at our usual 7:30. Last night we had our day all plann...
2023 09 01 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Aurora IL (delivered) 2 RV's to Hershey PA... spending the night at Charles City IA ))) site was down Friday, will update later ((( (It's now later... this was written Friday, but cut and pasted a week plus later) Load board US - 115 IA - 10/9 MN - 4 WI - 3 Alarm woke us both up. Br...
2023 08 31 MN-IL
1 box truck to Worthington MN (delivered) 1 trash truck to Aurora IL 2 RV's to Hershey PA (Saturday)... spending the night at De Forest WI Somehow we managed to get going a little before 7:30 today. Yesterday on the first leg of my trip I was up to 12 mpg. Then the next let was 11.2. Today it was do...
2023 08 30 WI-MN
1 RV to Greenfield WI (delivered) 1 box truck to Worthington MN... spending the night at Albert Lea MN No plan for tomorrow after the drop yet. No long trips to keep us busy over the long weekend. Hotel doesn't have WiFi so I'm hotspotting my phone and it is very slow. (many days later) Don't rememb...
2023 08 29 IA-WI
1 RV to Greenfield WI 1 box truck to Worthington MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Brookfield WI No alarm, we woke up when someone closed the bathroom door at our house. So I guess we were not completely sleeping. 6:30. Still out of the house close to 7:30. After spending two days with family...
2023 08 28 MN
1 RV to Greenfield WI (Tuesday)... spending the night at home We were on our way to the state fair when dispatch opened so BB made the call and took the trip. We had three that worked for us, we took one and the other two are still there at the end of the day. Dispatch phone was busy, busy, busy so...
2023 08 23 MN
... spending the night at home Shortly after we are up, we decide it is too hot to do anything around the house so we are heading to Duluth... that place we could have been paid to be going if we had decided this yesterday. But it takes us a while to get ready and to get my paperwork ready to drop o...
2023 08 22 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Batavia IL (delivered)... spending the night at home Long night, slept but not well. Too much food after too much food. I would have been better with just a cookie for an evening meal. Today's breakfast was just yogurt for me and that was just fine. At some point in the AM I get a c...
2023 08 21 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Batavia IL (delivered)... spending the night at Mason City IA Up on time but not in a rush to get rolling. Down for breakfast, real bacon but 'water' eggs.... Opps. It was after 8 AM when I looked at the clock again. I was going to call dispatch at 8 AM and had even messaged them ab...
2023 08 20 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Batavia IL... spending the night at Naperville IL Was out and about yesterday so I stopped and picked up my paperwork last night. Paperwork for another 9 drivers, most had two legs this time. That is unusual. No alarm but both up shortly after 6 AM. Usual home breakfast and then rea...
2023 08 18 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Batavia IL (Sunday)... spending the night at home Nothing on the load board for us in the AM so shortly after 8 AM I called the local dispatchers again and said I was looking for work. They wanted to know where I wanted to go...' CGO, MLW, Davenport... Where EXACTLY do you want to g...
2023 08 17 WI-MN
1 PU to Shakopee MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Nothing showed up on the load board yesterday so we just took the day off and did things around the house that don't seem to get done when we are gone weeks at a time. Not sure what it was but I only spent a couple of hours in the garden...
2023 08 15 IA-WI
1 RVs to DeForest WI (delivered) 1 RV to Ramsey MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Alarm did go off. We both had leftovers so we never did go down for breakfast. Ready to roll at 7:30 as planned. BB in the lead, she only has enough range to get to the drop plus four miles so she puts in an...
2023 08 14 IA-WI
1 RVs to DeForest WI 1 RV to Ramsey MN (Tuesday)... spending the night at Mauston WI We were not really planning on working today. We slept in until 7:30 instead of 6 AM, we weren't packed, BB finally looked at the load board at 8:30... not 8 AM and there was an RV to WI. She calls as she needs to g...
2023 08 13
... spending the night at home Load board - 8/13 - Friday US - 118 IA -0- MN - 1 WI - 1 Load board - weekend US - 116 IA -0- MN - 1 WI - 1
2023 08 09 DOT
... spending the night at home PASSED my DOT:):):) They did all the usual. Check weight and height (?) Then hearing and eyesight.... then took my BP. Too high. Tuesday at home it had been good, them this AM it was higher. And that '20 point bump' I get from walking into the clinic put me over the li...
2023 08 08 DOT
... spending the night at home I was really in pain and slow moving for a few days so I waited until I was home before calling for my DOT physical appointment. I was able to get one for tomorrow. Usually I wait until the last day before I get it renewed but I have a dentist appointment close to then...
2023 08 07 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at home Slept in a little late again today. BB wanted to get a walk in again before breakfast. I wasn't too worried about it... once I get home I will be out mowing or working in the garden half the day so I get my movements in. Not really sor...
2023 08 06 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Ankeny IA After two long hard days, I think we burnt our selves out. Neither of us have any get up and go this AM. We did get out for a walk, we were going to walk on paths we saw on the aerial photos. Those paths turned out to be only shor...
2023 08 05 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at North Platte NE Up at 5:30, breakfast and then rolling by 7:30 local. I had noticed that a sign on the front door said that the gravel lot is closed for truck parking. So I asked about it when I checked out. I was told the city had shut the...
2023 08 04 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at West Valley City UT Up at 4:30 (?) local... 6:30 home time. So we shouldn't have much problem re-adjusting when we do get home. Breakfast was left overs. Still good. Mine did have a couple of small pieces of tin foil in it:( After we were u...
2023 08 03 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Lathrup CA OUCH ! Got a call from the bus dispatcher today saying there will be no more buses this week... so we are now deadheading home after waiting three days. Last night I was going to ask the person at the hotel desk about their mis-l...
2023 08 02 CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Morgan Hill CA Un-eventful day. Breakfast, such as they serve here. 9 AM we go and exchange cars, or paperwork. They let us keep the same car. Interesting that the person here asked us about our experience at the location we picked it up at...
2023 08 01 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Livermore CA (still the same trip so not changing months yet) Breakfast has improved here. Used to be packaged rolls and donuts. Now they have eggs (?) sausage, a fridge with yogurt and waffle machines. Before breakfast we went for a walk a...
2023 07 31 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Santa Nella CA Breakfast. Good food. Usual stuff. Before breakfast we went for a mile plus walk. We are on a frontage road that <> dead ends in to a major mall which doesn't open until later so no traffic. Mall has three anchor's and...
2023 07 30 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at 1,000 Oaks CA We have 150 miles to go today so we are in no rush to get going. Up at 4:30 local. Finally take a walk about 5:30. After one loop, my leg started feeling different so we did two more laps around the parking lot instead of a long lap. That...
2023 07 29 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Barstow CA Opps. Really should have made sure I had an extra foot or more clearance before going under the canopy at the hotel:( No damage done, good thing there were not AC or heater units on the top. Back to the AM... we could smell bacon when we wal...
2023 07 28 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Green River UT HOW hot is it?... hot enough to crack my windshield. Dash said 126 when I started the RV. That was at the end of the day... It was actually cool this AM so we went for a walk almost as soon as we got up. Plan was to walk down one of the...
2023 07 27 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Fort Morgan CO No alarm. Cheap hotel so not much choice for breakfast. One yogurt is enough for me. Still 80 degrees at 6 AM. One of the things that showed up on FaceBook this AM was a message/memory that 85 years, and a couple of days ago it got down...
2023 07 26 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Lincoln NE Should be a good paying trip. Taking an extra day plus to get there because that is when we had to pick up the RV's. Looks like most days will be close to 100 degree's the whole trip. No alarm this AM. I had wanted to go out to the garden an...
2023 07 25 IA-CA
2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (Wednesday)... spending the night at home We didn't find work yesterday so we both are hitting re-fresh on the load board today while doing other things. I had wanted to get another hour done in my garden but it rained overnight and was still raining a little. They did put som...
2023 07 24 MN
Loadboard (Weekend) US - 63 IA -0- MN -0- (back to 1 on Sunday) WI - 3 Loadboard (Monday) US - 50 IA -0- MN - 1 WI - 1 Loadboard (7/18) US - 94 (it had been down in the 30's mid-day) IA -0- MN - 7 WI - 5 Loadboard (7/19) US - 68 IA -0- MN - 5 WI - 1 Loadboard (7/20) US - 82 IA - 1/0 MN - 7 WI - 4 La...
2023 07 14 MN
Friday, still at home and will be for a few days longer. Today there was an RV to Duluth but to late to deliver the same day. And there was still two trash trucks going to CGO followed by two box trucks going to Sioux Falls. (By Sat, only the two box trucks were left) Last weekend we spent our annua...
2023 07 05 MN
No work anytime soon. Was able to call in this AM and get a dentist appointment for this AM so that is taken care of for another six months. Then I stopped past the work office and dropped off last weeks paperwork. Pretty quiet, no phones ringing the whole time I was there. They did have one person...
2023 07 04
Loadboard (Friday) US - 191 IA - 3 MN - 1 WI - 3 Loadboard (Weekend) US - 184 IA - 3 MN - 3 WI - 2 Loadboard (Monday and the 4th) US - 147 IA -0- MN - 3 WI - 2