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 get a run in before 30 days without driving passes. I guess the trip had been on the loadboard Friday also and they took it off for the weekend. She called, she got it.

So ... we have to get ready for the day. Had we been ready we could have dropped same day. But this works.

We get going a little after 10 AM, instead of 8 AM if we had been ready to work.

An hour down the road and BB gets a phone call but lets it go to voicemail. It is a dispatcher in IN with an RV in WI for her. She doesn't want it but I do ... but I'm driving, so BB actually calls an unknown person to get me the trip. :) It is an hour from her drop and goes back to our home town. Round trip.

We could have waited for something that paid better but this was a sure thing and then we are back home.

One stop at a rest area because of all the road construction it is taking more than our 2-1/2 hours. Rest area, Owatonna.

We still need to get off the freeway at Joice to avoid the road construction ...

One driver ready to pull out when we get to the shipper. He's towing and if he's the one who's paperwork was laying in the office, he's going to MO.

It is now mid-month and the end of the month is this shippers quarter and year end. We should have a big push. There is a row of the larger RV's sitting in their employee lot which is usually the 'pre-stage' before they move the quarter end ones to our lot.

Not hard to find our RV when there is only a dozen to choose from and we have a clicker. It takes about a half hour to do the pre-trip. I mostly try to stay out of the way so I don't break BB's routine. Quarter tank of fuel to get us down the road.

Next stop is the Loves in Albert Lea, when we pulled up I thought there was a food truck in their lot. Turn out to be the toilets. BB does the math and puts in 15 gallons of fuel. But there is a little wind and she soon finds she is going to have to be adding more.

BB had packed a lunch as we had thought we were going to be home most of the week and gone shopping so we have food at home. I hadn't, so I grab a burger at Wendy's. Small one, as it is almost 3 PM.

We did have breakfast this AM and then I finished off the last of the fair cheese curds before we left this AM.

I stop at the Loves in St Charles for fuel for the car. Cheapest anywhere. When we go to leave there is a semi that's being very slow ahead of us and a pickup with a trailer that is chomping at the bit behind him.

We get to the top of the ramp and the semi pulls into the left lane and the pickup is pumping black smoke and pulls to the left lane ... almost. He is quickly back in the right lane and a semi goes flying past us partly on the shoulder. That is why you are supposed to look BEFORE pulling into the travel lane, not as you are doing it. But as you are doing it is good too ... saved me from being part of a mulit-unit accident today.

At one of these stops I had called my drop for tomorrow as I am to call 24 hours before delivery. I don't knat I am driving so all I can tell t

hem is I will be there ... if all goes well. They are open until 4 PM. I'm guessing I will be there between 2-3.ow wh

BB hadn't stopped at Loves so she gets to the next rest are before I do even as I am mostly going 70 mph and she is not. Too much road construction where we are both going the same speed.

At the rest area we decide that we are not going to make it all the way tonight. It would be 8 PM and the hotel is $20 more than stopping earlier.

Instead we stop at the Double Nickels in Camp Douglas. One of our new stops. Good food, too much so we save half for breakfast. All their daily specials are gone so they must have been good.

The German restaurant across the street in Camp Douglas is now closed. It had closed during Covid but had been open again on our last trip through here. Now it is small shops inside the old building so not likely to come back again.

Another 15 miles and we are at our hotel, the Quality Inn in Mauson. Once checked in we go for our mile plus walk. Later I remember that I need to print out tomorrows paperwork. The hotel computer screen is off, the computer is off, printer is off, printer is out of paper but I do finally get it printed.

Shortly before we ate tonight, we drove past my pickup location for tomorrow. Didn't see an RV so I need to make sure and call in the AM before we get there.

Load board

US - 97

IA - 2

MN - 6

WI -0-