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 call from my clinic. Not the people I need to talk to but a side person that needs to know what is going on. Right now they know more than me so I will be talking to them when I do know more.

By 11 AM we check out of the hotel, nothing new on the load board in any of the places we are watching.

Just a couple of miles down the road and one dispatcher adds a trash truck that will work for us. We had said last night that we would take the first 'sure thing' that was put on the load board but BB mentions that yesterday RV's were put out before noon. At this point we are heading somewhere to eat.

10 minutes later they do start putting out RV's. We watch, we even pull into a Denny's to sit and watch the load board. By now it is 11:30 and there are a total of four cars in their lot. Nothing that works for us is put out so we head down the street to The Other Place that has closer to 20 cars in the lot and more people are pulling in behind us. Their food is good. BB and I split a reuben. But I think that is the last one for now. Something about them doesn't agree with me right now.

BB and I are still trying to decide what to do when we pull out of the lot. I thought that we were going to call on the trash truck at 1 PM. We didn't. Instead we headed out to Forest City to turn in some paperwork and see what is going on. At some point they add more RV's to the load board but still not anything good.

At some point, WI did add two more trucks that would work for us. And some time this AM we decided that the forecast is going to be cool enough that we MAY go to the State Fair on Thursday after all. That cuts a work day off of what time we have.

We get to the lot and there are closer to 100 RV's already in our lot. And maybe 20-30 new ones on the load board in the last two days. So everything sitting here is not OK'ed to go yet. As we pull in, we see the shipper bring in another dozen sets of paperwork. No idea how long it takes them to put them on the load board.

Before we leave the RV shipper, I call the trash truck dispatcher. The truck I want has to be tied to a truck going to Baltimore. It doesn't say that anywhere I can see. I just say no thanks and hang up. Guess it wouldn't have made any difference when I called.

Then I call the local dispatcher than gave me my last Chicago trip, nope, they don't have anything either.

So after a few minutes we decide to head home. Empty handed. What started out as a good Sunday has ended with that being the only work we are doing this week.

One stop in the Owatonna rest area and I see someone who looks like they are signing to someone and then that person walks away. A couple of minutes later there are two cop cars there and then the person being signed to apologies to me. I really hadn't seen anything and told them so. Whoever they had been talking to, walks away so I walk over to the guy and say a couple of words. Turns out the person who I thought was signing was only using the basic hand sign. And at some point they had been beating on this person so they had to call the cops. A little issue that I am way to familiar with. (not the beating part)

BB is looking at the weather and it is 40 degrees cooler up by the big lake ... but she doesn't have those clothes with ?? We talk about going up, including checking hotels and the time involved but in the end do not go.

At 4 PM the RV dispatchers finally put something out that would work for us ... Duluth MN. BB can't decide if we still want to do it, so I get off at the next exit. Before we get parked I get a call from trash truck dispatcher ... now I can have the CGO truck. No thanks.

We decide not to go back for the DUL RV. If we picked it up, we would have to run until 8 PM to get to a hotel. Then likely a 10 hour day tomorrow if we still plan on going to the State Fair on Thursday. Instead we will just do some paperwork tomorrow and maybe some planning.

Right now we have the fair on Thursday, an appointment on Friday, family reunion on Saturday, trip planning day on Sunday, another fair day on Monday ... then we can work again unless I need to make an appointment ASAP. Still no call from them. I was expecting to know something yet last Friday or this past Monday.

On the last part of our trip home the temp on the car gauge said 100 degrees +/-.

So no real work plans right now.

Load board

US - 131

IA - 22

MN - 6

WI - 5