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 another two gallons.
I followed until my low tire light started to flash. I pulled off at the next exit but by then it was only on but not flashing. I stopped on the shoulder of the ramp and looked at my tires, no issues, and when I got back in the car the light was all the way off. But ... this was one of those exits where I could not get right back on the freeway ... and the first cross streets were 'no U-turn.' Took a few minutes.
Then another 10 miles down the road I get a phone call. Someone I had left a message with yesterday so again I pulled over and stopped. This took another few minutes.
Even with those two stops I was pulling into BB's drop right behind her. This place has two buildings, sales and service. BB decided to stop at sales because it was the first building, before she could get out, someone came out on their golf cart and said she needed to go to service.
We were here on time, and the inspection took less than an hour so we are on schedule. Only issue here is BB's tire had a nail in it (not our car) No idea when we picked it up and the tire was not going flat.
While we were here I called the shipper and found out where my RV was. It took a few minutes but it is all fixed and paid for.
About one hour from BB's drop and we are at my shipper. I get the keys, find out that the prior driver had hit something on the road and a tire had to be replaced.
When we picked up the vehicle, BB took off the prior drivers placards ... from the outside of the RV. We never tape them on the outside of a new unit.
All checks out good, we don't see where the tire did any extra damage but I take double the pictures as usual (After we have the placards off)
I've got enough fuel to make it to the drop but I have to leave it with 1/4 tank. Prior driver was only getting 15 mpg so I will likely be short.
The drop closes at 4 PM so I would like to be there at 3 PM. Even though everything is going as planned, I <> need to drive straight though to get to the drop when I want to.
BB makes a couple of stops. One rest area and the other for food.
I finally stop in Maplewood at a Speedway for fuel when I have one bar more than I need to drop it at. I don't want to wait until the low fuel light comes on as I have had to bring it past where the gauge needs to be to get the light to go back off. Or to even get the needle to move.
I put in 2-1/2 gallons to get the last 39 miles.
Road construction. I was making good time until i got to the last town before the drop. Anoka. They are taking out the stop lights and putting in over passes. Right now it is one lane each way and we are now at the beginning of rush hour.
At the drop. I am there before BB. I drop my paperwork at the front desk and say I will be outside clearing out my things. By the time BB gets there, no one has started to look at the RV yet so I go back inside 'to see where I left my clipboard.'
??? Seems they weren't coming out because I hadn't told them I was done getting my things out ???
Oh ... when I was getting my things out, I noticed that where we had taken off a clacard that the finish was discolored so I took a picture of it.
They did end up writing that up, along with damage from the tire that we hadn't noticed. I called dispatch and they said not to worry about either.
Now there is a truck in WI coming back to St Cloud. Nothing to get us to that truck and if we hadn't taken this RV to Ramsey we would have been home before they put the St Cloud trip out.
So no work. I did call local dispatch and they are having a slow week so no work there either. So that may be it for the week, but now we each have our trip in for the next 30 days.
When we were in CA, there was work here for rental trucks. Now that we are here, there is rental trucks in CA.
Trips paid good. Round trips do. But only for two days so it's not going to pay a whole lot of bills.
Load board
US - 90
IA - 1
MN - 4
WI - 2