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 ready to roll but 7:45. Non-stop so we are at the shipper by 9:15.

IF anyone else was here this AM, they are gone. Gate is closed so I had to call security to come and open the gate and then to close it again. I could see the paperwork we have to leave at the office and someone from my long haul carrier had picked up since Friday. In our lock box there were another dozen set of keys.

Not many of my brand of truck today so we didn't think it would take long. It was the 5th truck in the first row we looked at. No issues. CNG, left hand drive, front loader. Knew all that from the paperwork.

First stop is at the Kwik Trip in Kasson to scale, they don't have CNG so it won't be quite full when I weigh it. Not sure if CNG adds weight or lessens it ...

The truck is under by 2,000# + so I'm good to roll, at 60 mph.

Second stop is at the Kwik Trip in Rochester for fuel. This pump is slow, it finally stops pumping but the pump keeps running. I have to go inside to get a receipt so I comment on it. As I am walking away from the register I notice the price is wrong. So I'm thinking I got a discount like I get on gas/diesel. Then I see that the receipt is for gas, car gas. So I have to get back in line again and get the correct receipt.

At Rochester it was not 11 AM yet so we decide to stop in West Salem for lunch. It is also a optional fuel stop but we just get food. Kwik Trip. Shelf food, rib sandwich for me. We eat in the car because their only table was dirty. Our car is dirty too but it is our dirt.

65 mph is OK for BB but 60 mph in a 70 mph with a car is too slow for her. Some most of the time she leaves later than I do and stops when she catches up to me. So she did a few extra stops today.

DeForest is my next fuel stop. Tap reader wouldn't work, chip reader wouldn't work. Large hose wouldn't fit. Ended up using the other side of the same pump. Only one pump here. In Rochester, I could count faster ... One thousand 1, one thousand 2 ... faster than the pump was pumping a thousandth of a gallon. (.001) Here in DeForest the tenths are going faster than I can count. So is that 1,000x faster?

Lots of bumper to bumper traffic today. Sunday evening heading into the cities. Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago ...

My next stop is the CNG in Naperville. Tolls on both I-39 and I-88. Not the computer route from the carrier but simple. This is the first time I have been to this brand since Loves bought the out. I get rewards points. All helps, not making any extra money on the fuel when they are CNG with either company.

Once we are done fueling, we decide to stop at a Sleep Inn about two miles away. There is a hotel a mile from the drop but it is about $50 more. And a Best Western that is 10 miles out of route for about $25 more than here.

Sleep Inn, Naperville. Cracker Barrel next door but BB is done. Doesn't want to stop anywhere to pick up food for the both of us so after we check in, we head back out for food. There are two deli's close by but they are both M-F so we end up at a Jimmy John's, because they are usually fast. And they were today too.

'My' trip out of Janesville is still on the load board as of tonight and nothing better is. IA did put trips out yesterday after noon but nothing we want or can do. There are two to Seattle but we don't have time for that. We may end up re-arranging our plans. We had wanted to go to the State Fair on Thursday but I think the heat index will still be over 100 so that isn't very inviting. And I still need to hear back and set up an appointment before we can commit to taking anything more than an overnight trip.