2023 12 29 MN-WI
I trash truck to Berlin WI (delivered)... spending the night at home No alarm, small breakfast. OJ part of machine did not work and I tossed the apple juice I did take... and I drink some pretty ??? stuff. Last week I was drinking eggnog that was a few weeks past it's 'best by' date. We are ready to...
2023 12 28 MN-WI
I trash truck to Berlin WI... spending the night at Plover WI Up before 6 without an alarm, this place was not serving breakfast today (we were at home) Pulled out at 7:30, got to the shipper in Dodge Center at 9 AM. This is the first time we have been here since the paved the lot. No more slip slid...
2023 12 27 - MN-WI
Wednesday - No work... but three contacts with dispatch. 1st the RV dispatcher calls about a trip from a few months ago where my windshield busted. Sounds like it was road debris the carrier has to pay for the $5,000 windshield, if it was a rock, then the shipper pays. I have no way of knowing and n...
2023 12 19 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO (delivered)... spending the night at home Too much food last night, way too much. Up in the middle of the night because of it. Spent last night at the Country Inn in Kearney NE. We wanted to get home today, for no good reason (other than we were out of clean clothes) So we were...
2023 12 18 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO (delivered)... spending the night at Kearney NE We were both awake before 5 AM local, without an alarm clock. (but we had gone to bed at 8 PM last night) Spent last night at the Comfort Inn in Johnstown CO. Breakfast was egg patties and sausage. And the left over cheese cake fro...
2023 12 17 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO... spending the night at Johnstown CO Spent last night at the Best Western in Walsenburg CO. We are barely awake when we get a text message from the host of our family holiday meal. 'I have COVID.' That was a hot topic for a while, and we still do not know how it will play out....
2023 12 16 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO... spending the night at Walsenburg CO Spent last night in the Comfort Inn in Gallup NM. Last night when the desk clerk wanted to know more details about my bus, I thought he was just being picky. But this AM there were two more buses in the lot. Full of kids. Well behaved kids,...
2023 12 15 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO... spending the night at Gallup NM Way, way too much food at the Wagon Wheel last night... and we did not have desert. Spent last night at the Quality Inn in Needles CA. BB is still getting up around 4 AM local, I try to stay in bed until <> 5 AM. Because we don't want to...
2023 12 14 CA-CO
1 bus to Loveland CO... spending the night at Needles CA Spent last night at Santa Nella CA. No alarm, because no one set one. We had just crashed. We planned on leaving by the time they are supposed to start breakfast, so I had two of the oranges we had been carrying around for a while. BB had some...
2023 12 13 CA-CO
1 bus to Frisco CO (cancled) 1 bus to Loveland CO... spending the night at Santa Nella CA... ring, ring, ring. Last night I had shut off the lights but not gotten into bed yet. Last time we were out west and someone called us late, it was the bus dispatcher who WOULD have told me I had a bus in the...
2023 12 12 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV (delivered) 1 bus to Frisco CO (Wednesday)... spending the night at Rocklin CA BB is up by 4 AM local, that is 5 AM our time. Breakfast is not until 6:30 local, such as it is. I have yogurt. We spent last night at the Quality Inn in Wendover UT. Last night after we shut dow...
2023 12 11 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV... spending the night at Wendover UT Breakfast, we each have one slice of leftover pizza. Last night we each had three pieces. We didn't walk down for breakfast until the truck was started and I was dropping off the keys. They used to have cheese sticks and PopTarts and oth...
2023 12 10 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV... spending the night at Laramie WY Breakfast? Good. Neither of us had slept great so we were a little slow getting going. I did go out and start my truck on time... then to a break right away to finish packing to leave. Last night we were at the Best Western in York. The p...
2023 12 09 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV... spending the night at York, NE Spent last night in Nashville IL. Right as we are going to head down for breakfast, BB realizes that she had the sun rise / first light times wrong. We should almost be walking out the door and we haven't had breakfast yet. I should have ju...
2023 12 08 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV... spending the night at Nashville... IL Breakfast - Huge headed wok's of eggs, sausage, potatoes, etc. Two people working the breakfast area. This hotel has a construction company using part of their parking lot and I'm guessing a lot of the crew is staying here. And they...
2023 12 07 SC-NV
1 tank truck to Sparks NV... spending the night at Fletcher NC... long frustrating morning. Spent last night at the Comfort Inn in Asheville NC. Last night, dispatch put a nice trip on the load board <> after they are closed, and someone took it right away. Then later, the TX dispatcher put lo...
2023 12 06 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC (delivered)... spending the night at Asheville NC We hit re-fresh:) on our load board. We spent last night at the Comfort Inn in Durham. This AM I call on a truck that is right in route, but a short one. Dispatch tells me who the shipper is and I say "No Thanks." I call o...
2023 12 05 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC (delivered)... spending the night at Durham NC Breakfast - Something wasn't right with BB's toast this AM so she popped it up early. That caused the other side, someone else's to pop up also. When BB's was done, so was theirs... I saw them scrapping the burnt off their to...
2023 12 04 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Knoxville TN Good day:) Spent the night last night in the Comfort Inn in Lonoke AR. I'm not sure today's eggs were 'real,' but the were not bad. Plus other stuff including juice pouches. I had to grab one of those for later. We were going to get g...
2023 12 03 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Lonoke AR Breakfast was eggs, sausage and some good potato mix. We had both been up before the alarm but decided not to leave until our planned time, once it was light. Out at the truck, we load it and... it won't start. <> the same issue as...
2023 12 02 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Shamrock TX... now I'm a crane operator ?... Shortly after 6 AM, 8 AM Eastern, I call east coast dispatch and let them know the issue with the outrigger on my truck. It is now touching the ground. BB and I had looked at things last night and not f...
2023 12 01 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Albuquerque NM... I guess I am not a trucker... I still am, so far. We spent last and... and all morning in Holbrook at the Quality Inn. Breakfast was left overs. I was going to go to the office this AM to get paperwork printed, but BB mentioned t...
2023 11 30 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Holbrook AZ... I guess I am not a trucker... Yesterday my truck would not go over 53 mph. Then last night I looked on the auction listing of the truck and saw it was a 13 speed. I was driving it as a 9 speed.:) I never found 13th gear. Then. Had t...
2023 11 29 CA-NC
1 boom truck to Carthage NC... spending the night at Barstow CA Up and down for breakfast by 6 AM local, BB had been up since 4 AM. She is still on central time. But breakfast doesn't open until 6:30 so we packed up and left. 1st stop was a couple of hours down the road in Lost Hills at the Loves fo...
2023 11 28 IA-CA
2 RV's to Davis CA (delivered) 1 boom truck to Carthage NC (Wednesday)... spending the night at Santa Nella CA We were awake at 4 AM (local) 6 AM home time. We were up, got ready had breakfast... and then decided we would wait to leave an hour later. Last night we were in the Comfort Inn in Fernley...
2023 11 27 IA-CA
2 RV's to Davis CA... spending the night at Fernley NV A two yogurt day. One was frozen but I guessed it was OK to eat so I did. This AM we got to see the moon setting, and got to watch it rise last night. Full moon, it's been in the news for some reason. Sun not quite up yet. Rough night last night...
2023 11 26 IA-CA
2 RV's to Davis CA... spending the night at Coalville UT Spent the night at the Comfort Inn in Sidney NE. Alarm was set for 5 AM local but we were up before that. All this place had for yogurt was diet, but they had other good food. The 'ham patties,' is what I call them. Like sliced ring sausage bu...
2023 11 25 IA-CA
2 RV's to Davis CA... spending the night at Sidney NE Spent last night in Waukee IA at the Sleep Inn. Today my breakfast is a small cup of yogurt. Too much food earlier in the week. It is light outside by 7 AM but breakfast doesn't start here until 7 AM so we wait. By 7:30 we are ready to pull out....
2023 11 24 IA-CA
Spent last night at home... We both started dialing at 7:58, I got through once but it ended up going to voicemail. Then at about 8:04, BB got through again and got our trips. But... the one we wanted was already gone so we will both be driving the same kinds of units.... last night. I was packing a...
2023 11 22 MN
... spending the night at home I did watch the load board all day (numbers below) BB was gone for most of the day. Very little change for most of the day. When it was close enough to the end of the day we decided we would pick a less ideal trip so that we would have work for Friday. I call in and it...
2023 11 21 MN-IA
1 box truck to Davenport IA (delivered)... spending the night at home Nowhere to go, no rush to get there. We finally went down to get breakfast at 8 AM. Only diet yogurt so I had eggs and sausage. We pulled out about 9 AM. It had rained overnight but still no frost. But the temps did drop as we dr...
2023 11 20 MN-IA
1 box truck to Davenport IA (delivered)... spending the night at Cedar Rapids IA Up without the alarm. At 7 AM I call the east coast dispatchers and get the local trip. We could have been ready, but it takes us about an hour to get out of the house. Directions are to call the shipper but they aren'...
2023 11 18 MN
... spending the night at home A mixed week. We had wanted to be home for Saturday and there had been no work last weekend so we deadheaded 1,000+ miles home.... only to find out one of our house guests was sit and now we had been exposed. So we <> sat the week out at home. There were a few th...