1 pickup to Shakopee MN (delivered)

1 pickup to Williamsburg IA (Monday)

1 pickup to Caledonia WI (Tuesday)

... spending the night at home

Nothing strange at this hotel. Last night I did watch a pickup with a 5th wheel come in and run over the curb and still had no where to turn. I didn't stick around to see what happened, when they were coming in it did not look like they knew what they were doing ...

7:30 we are ready to go. Turns out this shipper is about a mile from the Country Inn in Albert Lea. But I had never looked at the map, I just remembered the one water tower we can see from the main highway.

We let the GPS guide us and we get to ... road construction. Road closed. So we back track and come in from the other direction.

The person I talked to yesterday is not in today. Someone walking past the counter said they would take care of me. They hoped in their truck and I followed. One problem, the truck has not been cleaned out. The guy starts grabbing things and then when he can't hold any more decides to get help and they pull the truck up by the dumpster.

It only takes a few minutes with two people, one of them with a shovel cleaning out the box. After we sign off on the paperwork they ask if I had called. Yup, talked to the contact ... he did not say he would not be in, he did say you were open until 4:30 last night and then from 6:30 to 3:30 today ...

Full tank of fuel to go 50 miles :)

BB follows me to the first rest area where she pulls off. It was not raining when we picked up but it starts raining a little and then comes down in buckets once I am down near the drop. Lights, wipers on, cruise off. If it is raining like this when I get to the drop, I'll just wait in the pickup.

Once I am on old 169, a semi comes over on me before I realize he has his blinker on. I didn't notice it was on because of the rain. There was no one ahead of me for a half mile or behind me for a half mile so they could have waited. Once I saw he was coming over, I backed off. He didn't really know where he was going. He was almost past the turn lane before he turned down the street I was taking.

The rain let up quickly and just more than misting when I pulled into the drop. Someone I have seen before, rare. People don't stay here long. Lots of cars, I don't quite fit in the 1st row I picked so I had to re-park. And it is still raining. 60+ and rain feels cool.

Nothing new for work. When I get back to our car, BB is talking to family that has locked their keys in the car. So that is our next task.

When I am talking to dispatch on this last truck we just dropped, I ask if they have more trips that I don't see because we don't hit re-fresh quick enough. Not really.

But a few miles down the road I get a call, the shipper just dumped a dozen out of WI on them. I asked about weekend pickups because we aren't quite ready to leave yet.

We swing past home to pick up a set of keys and make work copies.

Next stop is dropping off the keys, after that I drop off the paperwork at the local company. They have three buses and three trucks in the lot. I talk to the head dispatcher and they do not have anything under 500 miles that is not a cab over ... but they still have Canadian buses ...

BB is not really interested in the logistics of going into Canada, we haven't decided if we would use our own car or get a rental. Our limit has been 500 miles for that company for the last <> 5 years. And no Canadian for either company for longer than that so this is nothing new.

Waaaaaaaaay Back Burger. They have apple pie shakes, not sure why BB suggested it. I have 100's of times and it has always been a no. Good food, not too much.

We did stop and mail the COD check before eating, so that is done too.

By about 2:30 we decide there is nothing new and the rental trucks are the best option. We call and get two, one going to IA and the other to MLW. I also get the phone number for the person to deal with on weekend pick-ups. At every turn it was 'is there any way this can be done on Monday ...' So we will wait until Monday, and do the second one Tuesday.

So now we can go to Oktoberfest tomorrow :) :)

We will likely head to Appleton from there and take a <> vacation day near or on Lake Michigan.

Load board

US - 98

IA - 1/0

MN - 5

WI - 6