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 and two days at our state fair out of the last five days ... the scale said we did not need to eat breakfast.
For some reason the WI truck I wanted got put with the main dispatchers instead of the usual dispatcher for this shipper. But that means today I could call them at 7 AM my local time and I got the trip. Nothing wrong with the truck. The driver who had taken it, didn't. His truck to get him here broke down so he had to give this one up. So now we have a trip back to MN ... and if I heard right, we could be dead heading to WI to move this trucks. It should pay pretty good.
There is road construction on the freeway past our place so we have been taking the frontage road for the summer and maybe already last spring (?) A few miles down the road and we see there was an accident on the freeway within minutes of when we passed that street. We didn't see it so must have been right behind us (We can see the freeway from the frontage road in that area)
One stop at the rest area near Owatonna for a break.
Then we got off at the exit for Norwood to check fuel prices. GasBuddy said gas was $3.18 but it was really $3.59. More than other places.
We get to the shipper at 10:30 so not going to make delivery today, we find out the drop closes at 4 PM.
We saw five other drivers today but didn't talk to any of them. It looks like the shipper has about 100 chassis lined up in their employee lot ready to be shipped out like last time. That is what they have to do when the over buy. They buy on forecast and when the forecast changes before the chassis are delivered, they have to adjust.
And in the lot there are likely over 100 RV's ready to ship. Likely as there were 80+ at one point on the load board. I would have thought most of those pulled out on Monday but we have no way of knowing.
Half hour and we are ready to go, two people inspecting one small unit. BB has a half a tank of fuel so that will get us to cheaper fuel. At first she thought she'd only stop once for fuel but then did the math. She save $2 if she stopped again and we stop every two hours anyways.
1st stop loaded is the Loves in Albert Lea. BB fuels and we both eat at Wendy's. Chili today.
BB leaves before I am done eating, I'm a slow eater but can drive faster with the car.
2nd stop is the Loves at St Charles. BB is pulling out as I am pulling in. We both fuel. Gas here is $.40 less than most places.
3rd stop is the rest area near Lyndon Station. BB is there before I get there. She did stop one other place to call her drop. And I still did not catch up to her. I had called my shipper from St Charles. Usually I am talking to a 3rd party broker when I call in, today it was the actual shipper ... and they pretty much wanted to know why I was calling them ... I think someone didn't follow the instructions on the original paperwork. Their problem, not mine.
When we were at Lyndon Station, BB made reservations for the hotel. We had talked about staying wherever was cheaper or if we wanted to shut down early. We ended up getting as far as we wanted and eating afterwards.
The hotel is the Comfort Inn in Brookfield. We've stayed here a few times. Oscar's was our fast food tonight. I had sloppy joe, potato soup and a cherry malt. There is a Texas Roadhouse next door but I'm guessing that would have taken a lot longer than driving to Oscar's.
Tomorrow ...
(plans) Drop at 9 AM when they open, leave drop by 10 AM
Arrive at my shipper by 11 AM, leave by 12 noon.
Call dispatch to get a truck from SD back to MN
Get to Albert Lea by 6 PM for the night.
... maybe.
Load board
US - 131
IA - 24
MN - 3
WI -0-