1 trash truck to Minneapolis MN (Wednesday)

... spending the night at home

We are still traveling back home from our weekend in Nashville. No plans to work until we see how these next two weeks of appointments play out.

We stopped early last night as we were both tired. Vacationing can be tiring. We got going this AM at 8:30 instead of 7:30.

Shortly after we got going, the rental dispatchers put out a short trip from Chippewa Falls back to MN. That would be a couple of added miles to pick up and an hour past our house to drop. But we are not really back in work mode so we decided we'd call the next time we stopped.

We stopped for fuel in Peru at a Casey's because fuel was under $3. I call and it goes to voice mail. I get an auto reply saying to text them, so instead of calling a dispatcher who could help me now, I text. BB asks why ...

An hour later we stop for food and I hadn't heard on the trip so I called the dispatcher back. They never really did say if they had seen my texts, but as we are talking they say that they just got a message that someone had gotten that trip. :(

This has happed before with this dispatcher, but they were the original but I will likely be calling someone else first for a while on these trips. That was a nice one we lost.

Another couple of hours down the road and we stop at a rest area and I call on a 10 mile trip from Roseville. It has been on the load board for a few days. One load board, the company keeps coming out with 'improved' versions of the load board and leaves the older ones available. For some reason this trip was not showing on the newer version of the load board. OK with me, it worked this time.

We got the trip. It will take us a couple of hours. If we had gotten the other trip also this one would have only added a half hour to the day as it was on our way.

As soon as we are home, BB walks down to our room and finds my I-pass. It had fallen out of my bag while packing/un-packing.

Load board

US - 135

IA - 1

MN - 3

WI - 7

Tomorrow we will return our vacation rental car early so we don't have to get up early on Thursday. We'll do that on our way to the trip and then we have other things to do on the way home so not too far out of route to do the trip. I know where both locations are so no need for a map. Roads are all still there.

Depending on how things go on Thursday, we may work Friday or we may just take the weekend off before having to be around home again on Monday.