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 down, I get a text message that the drop will likely want me to drop somewhere else. So this AM I call dispatch to see what their policy is on drop changes. We can't, only the customer can and often the customer is not the same as the drop.

In this case I found out there was someone on site all day. So no change needed.

This AM we are pulling out at 7 AM local, just a few minutes before first light.

This morning I am confused. I/we walk around every truck almost every time we stop. This AM when I walked around I see that my license plate is bent way out, which I could have caught on something knee high (?) but the tops of the plate are also bent out and that part is/was tight against the frame.

Shortly after we get going this AM, we catch up to two highway trucks dumping sand. One in each lane and traveling close enough together that only a couple of cars tried to get between them. I think I was first in line behind them for most of a half hour before the one truck backed off leaving enough room for trucks to get between them ... so I did. They were running about 35 mph so that did slow us down a little on the first leg.

And it got the truck good and dirty. Most of the day I was using my wiper and washer every so often because of the road spray.

1st stop was Elko at the Sinclair. It wasn't time to eat yet, but we ordered our Port o Subs and put them in the side box on the truck to keep them cool. So far it was still in the 40's.

While here I get a call from one of the people I left a message with yesterday. He wants me to drop somewhere else, he has it all planned out. Then I tell him there is someone on site ... 'oh ... oh yeah. I forgot we hired him.'

2nd stop was at the Loves in Winnemucca. Their Carl's Jr has a larger place to eat our Port o Subs sandwiches. :)

3rd stop was in Fernley for the rest room. That way we don't need to be looking for one as soon as we drop. Flying J has the easiest off and on of the truckstop's here.

4th stop is the rental car place. I drop BB off at the side of the road and then continue down the street until I find a place big enough to park street side. Luckily it only took a couple of minutes for BB at the rental place. When I texted her where I had stopped, she texted back that she was on her way.

5th stop was the drop. I had to call the drop contact as this place has lots of people using the lot. Left a message and then he called back a few times and I didn't here it. And it came through as 'spam.' We did make connection and I had to move to the other side of the building to where they wanted the truck parked. A signature, a couple of words and we are on our way.

As soon as we are off their property, I call the bus dispatcher. Things are better, but he has his main drivers that have been sitting he has to get going first. Call him back tomorrow.

... two blocks down the road ... dispatcher calls back. We are going to Frisco CO tomorrow AM as soon as we can get there. Things change. BB and I had talked about all kind of things to do for both work and fun if there wasn't any buses. Now all that was just conversation.

BB makes a hotel reservation for a hotel a 100+ miles down the road almost right away. THEN we start talking and realize I am going to be really, really close to running out of hours. We could have used the two hours I will have to log traveling tomorrow AM ... used it to get the bus delivered.

When we pull into the hotel parking lot, we notice the parking spot marked for their rewards customers ... has a pile of glass laying in it. It was about 4 years ago last week that we were broken into out here and lost my backpack with all my work stuff plus computer etc. So tonight we brought all those things in including extra meds. Most of what we left in our car was dirty laundry. And we parked in a less likely place for someone to bother.

Comfort Inn in Rocklin is the hotel. Then we drive to Sourdough & Co for food to go. Second good sandwich today.

Loadboard

US - 105

IA - 3/1

MN - 1

WI - 6

Tomorrow we have about two hours to the bus, then hopefully only a half hour until we are rolling with the bus but that means it will be dark before we drive 500 miles with the bus. Barstow is our likely stop for the night. After that it is another two hours to Las Vegas.

We should deliver the bus on Friday about noon. Not likely there will be anything close enough to pick up yet Friday and we can be home before Monday so that is likely what we will do. Head home. It's been three weeks.