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 Saturday I was tired of playing with my smart phone. The screen had been freezing for a half / hour at a time so I could not swipe to get it started ... or answer a call ... and a call. Then it went green a few times, one time for over an hour when I couldn't use it for that reason.

So first I bought a flip phone so I'd have something I could use. Then I spent a couple of days trouble shooting it myself and stopping at stores. Finally Monday I found someone to look at mine. After a half a day they tell me it is un-repairable ... and now doesn't work at all. Before I would have been able to get my contact info, messages, etc off it it. Now I can not.

Ended up buying a re-built phone. Phone is fine but there are a couple of issues with it that I can't work around so I may end up not using it after spending $$$ on it.

Today I stopped back at a couple of more places to see if they had any suggestions. Company store says no. Repair shop said no, then we kept talking because it wasn't making sense to me. Finally the repair shopped looked closer and now I have a new issue on my old phone that would cost $100 to repair. I'd still have the original issue.

Work. RV dispatch did put a few out. 1st was two to Wausau, would have paid OK, more than sitting home. Didn't take them. Then there was two to 1,000 Oaks. But I don't have any contacts in my new phones so BB had to call and wasn't quick on the draw. She ended up getting put on hold and by the time they came back one of the RV's was gone.

There were a few more during the day that would have worked. Never over 25 at one time. Lots of times there were two to the same place, but not at the same time so we didn't take the 1st one and by the time the 2nd one showed up the 1st one was gone.

Finally there were two going two on I-80 west of Sacramento. We got them. Two different places, about 22 miles apart. And by grabbing them today we have an extra day to get there but we have work.

Tomorrow we should get to Lincoln, Thursday to Laramie, Friday to Wendover and Saturday to Rocklin. If all goes well.

And we don't need to be back for three and a half weeks.

Besides RV's there also had been two trash trucks going to IA that would have paid good. And there has been three shop trucks near Wausau going to TN that I want to move some day. But those shop trucks always seem to be going somwhere that doesn't pay to move just one.

Loadboard

US - 156

IA - 15/14

MN - 4

WI - 4

Tomorrow I need to stop at a clinic on my way out of town. Likely leave about 7-7:30 and be to the shipper by 10. Gone by 11 and shut down by 7 PM.