230601 IA-MN
1 box truck to Plymouth MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Up and had our usual breakfast. All the trucks that were here last night are gone, we are the sleepy heads. Yesterday the shifter popped out of gear a couple of times and we thought maybe it was because one of the suitcases was pus...
230531 IA-MN
1 tanker to Eagan MN (breakdown) 1 box truck to Plymouth MN... spending the night at Cedar Falls IA Breakfast was OK, until BB found a hair in her eggs... There are nice truck pumps at the Shell right across from the hotel and fuel is cheaper than with a discount at the truck stop so it will depend...
230530 CA-WI
1 bus to Beloit WI (delivered) 1 tanker to Eagan MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Elgin IL We pulled out at 7:30, still thinking that the drop closed at 7 PM based my paperwork. First stop was a rest area in Tiffin. BANG ! ! ! A pickup pulling a boat, blew their right front tire just as the t...
230529 CA-WI
1 bus to Beloit WI... spending the night at Waukee WI Yesterday... we also saw two dead elk, right at the edge of the pavement. Dead, but not destroyed. And we saw Mormon crickets. I have seen them before in about the same area, this time BB was with me so she could look them up. Mostly they were on...
230528 CA-WI
1 bus to Beloit WI... spending the night at Cheyenne WY Breakfast was not supposed to be until 6:30 so we over ordered food last night so we would have left overs. But when we checked out, the breakfast area was already full of people so it must have opened early. Oh... rough night. Foot cramps, aci...
230527 CA-WI
1 bus to Beloit WI... spending the night at Wendover UT ))) written over a week after the events ((( 2nd night in a week we have stayed at this hotel. Wish it was cheaper:) I call shortly after 6:30 AM central time to get a NV permit. Someone answers on the first couple of rings. They usually work t...
230526 CA-WI
1 bus to Beloit WI... spending the night at Rocklin CA This AM we are up at our usual time. Green eggs and... sausage. Yesterday the meat was ham. We have decided not to do a trip that could have worked for us. But it would have been 10 hours of just driving time. Too close to push for a Friday on a...
230525 CA-CA
1 bus to Duluth MN (on hold) 1 pickup to Fresno CA (delivered)... spending the night at Tulare CA ??? not sure what today will bring. Dispatch said I could have a Duluth MN bus but they never gave me the bus number. So we are up, eat breakfast and rolling by 7 AM local. We had gone down to eat at 6...
230524 CA-CA
1 bus to Santa Ana CA (delivered) 1 bus to Duluth MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Santa Clarita CA We are up too early for breakfast, but we planned ahead and got large philly's last night and saved half for this AM. Still a lot of food for that early. I take the city streets but find out la...
230523 CA-CA
2 buses to Grass Valley CA (canceled) 1 bus to Santa Ana CA (Wednesday)... spending the night at Livermore CA I had agreed to take two buses 150 miles tomorrow and the boss would pay for the hotel for tonight and we'd leave in the AM. Dispatch calls back a half hour later while I was driving and sai...
230522 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville (delivered)... spending the night at Livermore CA Monday AM – Breakfast is back to eggs and sausage. Glad I grabbed some bacon yesterday, it was still really good today. Yesterday AM we didn’t see the lawn chair man yesterday AM. Today we did see him. He had moved hi...
230521 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville... spending the night at Rocklin CA No alarm this AM. Down for breakfast as soon as they open. We are still <> on central time so we've been up for a while. Eggs and sausage when we were down. When we go down just before breakfast ends, they had bacon. So I gra...
230520 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville... spending the night at Rocklin CA To bed early, up early but we need to wait for breakfast and for our permits to be good. I had thought I was hungry last night so I had gotten a quesadilla plus a taco. Taco was still good this AM. It was not like anything we get a...
230519 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville... spending the night at Wendover UT We went to bed early and were awake early. BB finally got up at 5 AM local. BB still had half her food from last night, so that was her breakfast. I only saved two bites of mine so I had that... still made my lips burn... and a sm...
230518 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville... spending the night at Larmie WY Breakfast - Last time we were here I think it was grab and go, paper bagged. Because they are re-doing this hotel. The breakfast area is done, but it is still just biscuits and gravy for hot food. So I had yogurt. When I was done, I...
230517 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville... spending the night at Lincoln NE No alarm but up close to usual time. Rolling by 8:30. Before we get to the freeway, we see a car laying on its side in the travel lane. Not sure how it happened, it's a 30-40 mph zone. 1 cop was there directing traffic. Quick stop...
230516 IA-CA
2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville (Wednesday)... spending the night at home... this is written before yesterdays write-up. Long four days. Found out last week that we had nothing holding us here but there was nothing good on the loadboard and I still had yard work and gardening to do. AND, by Saturda...
230515 MN
... spending the night at home. We did spend the day hitting refresh all day. Nothing good enough to take. If it wasn't the end of the month at the end of the quarter... we might have just taken something. But I've been keeping track of RV trips for the last five years and it has always gone up the...
230503 MN
Loadboard (Wednesday 5/3) US - 293 IA - 70/67 MN - 7 WI - 8 Loadboard (Thursday 5/4) US - 271 IA - 42/40 MN - 14 WI - 6 Loadboard (Friday 5/5) US - 220 IA - 26/25 MN - 6 WI - 7 Loadbaord (weekend) US - 206 IA - 22/21 MN - 5 WI - 7 Loadboard (Monday 5/8) US - 191 IA - 23 MN - 4 WI - 6 Loadboard (Tues...
230502 IA-MN
1 RV to Shakopee MN (delivered)... spending the night at home No alarm, we sleep in. We finally go down for breakfast just before it ends. Breakfast here is in two adjoining rooms because the hotel is being remodeled. By 10 AM we are tired of sitting in the hotel so we head out to return the rental...