2024 05 02 IN-MN
1 box truck to Roseville MN (delivered)... spending the night at home "It's a good thing it is not Wednesday, or your truck would be in the way for the trash trucks." was one of the first thing BB says to me in the AM.... opps, I had forgotten. Our trash truck comes on Thursday, today, and I will be...
2024 05 01 IN-MN
1 box truck to Roseville MN... spending the night at home Breakfast... we had some. I get a call shortly after 7 AM. Rare that I answer an unknown number but I did today. It is the shipper. Letting me know they got my message last night and a few other details. Like we can pick up 24/7... not just 8...
2024 04 30 MN-MI
1 trash truck to Battle Creek MI (delivered) 1 box truck to Roseville MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Elkhart IN Much better rest last night. We are ready to go... Breakfast, they had real ham... and potatoes. But the eggs were not even close so I took a yogurt instead of the eggs. Today BB...
2024 04 29 MN-MI
1 trash truck to Battle Creek MI... spending the night at DeForest WI Today the alarm woke us... so we are dragging a little. Thought we might get out of the house early, and we did, but only by a couple of minutes. Road construction slows us down and then the phone rings. Dispatch is calling before...
2024 04 27 MN-MI
1 trash truck to Battle Creek MI (Monday)... spending the night at home Went to pick up my paperwork today. Could have even left last night if I hadn't had to commit to an exact time... so Monday it is. On the way to the office we stopped at a food truck that has been in a farmers yard for over a ye...
2024 04 26 MN-MI
1 trash truck to Battle Creek MI (Monday)... spending the night at home... this started yesterday. I was driving off road somewhere rural when the call came in. Local dispatch needed a driver for a trip because 'someone backed out.' It was a couple more miles than I usually do for that carrier and i...
2024 04 23 MN
Load board - Tuesday US - 236 IA - 2/0 MN - 3 WI - 7 Load board - Wednesday US - 205 IA - 2/0 MN - 0 WI - 7 Load board - Thursday US - 205 IA - 2/0 MN - 3 WI - 8
2024 04 22 KS-IL
1 box truck to Peoria IL (delivered)... spending the night at home Sheets were not made for this bed. They barely reached the sides before we got under the covers... Breakfast was the basics. I'm guessing there were only a dozen or so guests last night. The computer says the drop opens at 8 AM so th...
2024 04 21 KS-IL
1 box truck to Peoria IL... spending the night at Morton IL I have both yogurt and eggs this AM as I do not plan on stopping and eating. We have under 8 hours to go today so am break is not required. The pan-handlers are still sleeping as I drove past their cart before 8 AM. Both our hotel and the d...
2024 04 20 KS-IL
1 box truck to Peoria IL... spending the night at Springfield MO Good chopped ham patties for breakfast. But I should have had yogurt instead of the eggs. I'm surprised that all the food I ate last night did not bother me. Slept good. We pull out at our usual 7:30. 1st stop is for fuel in Russell KS...
2024 04 19 TX-CO
1 box truck to Colorado Springs CO (delivered) 1 box truck to Peoria IL (Saturday)... spending the night at Colby KS 2 cups of yogurt for me for breakfast. BB had a nuked sandwich, that was their hot food at this hotel. As soon as it was 7 AM local, 8 AM eastern, I call on the Peoria truck. It goes...
2024 04 18 TX-CO
1 box truck to Colorado Springs CO... spending the night at Dumas TX Breakfast was the usual, eggs, sausage and potatoes. Today we had a few more minutes to get out of the hotel as we are only a few miles from the shipper and we can't be there until 8 AM. The room they switched us to last night had...
2024 04 17 TX-CO
1 box truck to Colorado Springs CO (Thursday)... spending the night at Corsicana TX None of the box trucks we wanted have shown up out of TX near where we are sitting. They did put trucks out of KS, but that is a 600 mile dead head to get to and a non-CDL so it is paying less. By 8 AM we decide to m...
2024 04 16 CA-TX
1 bus to Fort Worth TX (delivered)... spending the night at Alvarado TX Today we did have hotel breakfast. Eggs, sausage, potatoes and yogurt. I wasn't planning on eating again until after I dropped today so I had a little more food than usual. As often as not lately we are not making it out of the...
2024 04 15 CA-TX
1 bus to Fort Worth TX... spending the night at Amarillo TX Alarm awakes us at 5:30 AM. Neither of us are hungry, I don't even eat my left overs from last night. BB does grab two yogurts to go. We pull out at 7 AM local. Some of the homeless are up already, others we can see are still sacked out. On...
2024 04 14 CA-TX
1 bus to Fort Worth TX... spending the night at Albuquerque NM Today it was the alarm that got us out of bed. Breakfast was leftovers from last nights breakfast. Breakfast at the hotel is not until 7:30 and we will be rolling by 6:30 AM. Bus starts this and every time today. AZ scale is closed this...
2024 04 13 CA-TX
1 bus to Fort Worth TX... spending the night at Needles CA We coast, we are up before the alarm and before the sun. We each eat the second half of our quesadilla's for breakfast. Still a lot of food when split in two. Some bites were hotter than I liked but BB loved it. Sometime this AM, I have prob...
2024 04 12 CA-TX
2 RV's, 1 to Davis CA, 1 to Freemont CA (delivered) 1 bus to Fort Worth TX... spending the night at Santa Nella CA Long day Load board US - 170 IA - 4/1 MN - 1 WI - 4
2024 04 11 IA-CA
2 RV's, 1 to Davis CA, 1 to Freemont CA... spending the night at Rocklin CA No alarm. Breakfast is mostly taco's from last nights food truck. I did also go down to the office and get one yogurt and one banana. Breakfast doesn't open until 6:30 but they were setting up and got me what I wanted. By 6:...
2024 04 10 IA-CA
2 RV's, 1 to Davis CA, 1 to Freemont CA... spending the night at Wendover UT No alarm but we do have SNOW. None on the pavement but some on the grass and vehicles. No Pop-Tarts for breakfast anymore. No sauce cups either. This place used to have both. But they still have all the usual stuff. Yogurt...
2024 04 09 IA-CA
2 RV's, 1 to Davis CA, 1 to Freemont CA... spending the night at Laramie WY No need for an alarm, we are both up before needed. Way to much food last night, that didn't help in the sleep area. Pillows didn't help either. All this place has for hot food is biscuits and gravy. So I had yogurt. Last ni...
2024 04 08 OH-MN
1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN (delivered) 2 RV's to Grand Junction CO (canceled) 2 RV's to California... spending the night at Lincoln NE No alarm, no breakfast. BB didn't remember that the car shop opened at 7:30 so she had paced herself to have time for breakfast, but then decided we'd eat later....
2024 04 07 OH-MN
1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN 2 RV's to Grand Junction CO (Monday)... spending the night at home SUNDAY
2024 04 06 OH-MN
1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN 2 RV's to Grand Junction CO (Monday)... spending the night at home No alarm but still up before it would usually go off. The only plus side is on the rare occasion, we don't get woken up out of a deep sleep. Minimal breakfast. Frost on a few vehicles but not on ours. Tr...
2024 04 05 OH-MN
1 box truck to Springfield OH (delivered) 1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN 2 RV's to Grand Junction CO (Monday)... spending the night at Rockford IL 1st stop - Mejier for fuel 2nd stop - Dayton Airport 3rd stop - drop Springfield 4th stop - shipper New Carlisle 5th stop - Dayton Airport 6th stop - Comf...
2024 04 04 WI-OH
1 box truck to Springfield OH 1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN (Friday)... spending the night at Englewood OH Breakfast. OK, but minimal. We pull out after 7:30. We want to be to the shipper by <> 8 AM and they are just a couple of miles away. My truck is at one of the remote lots again. BB had m...
2024 04 03 MN-IL
1 trash truck to Pontiac IL (delivered) 1 box truck to Springfield OH (Thursday) 1 lawn truck to Burnsville MN (Friday)... spending the night at Janesville WI No snow on the ground here, a little snow on the sides of the cars. Breakfast was the usual, eggs, sausage and yogurt. There is briefly a tri...
2024 04 02 MN
1 trash truck to Pontiac IL... spending the night at Cedar Rapids IA Up without the alarm, no breakfast for me. Still too stuffed from yesterday noon. We decide to pass on the two TX trips, one is gone shortly after 8 AM so we can not reconsider. We sit and watch the load board from 7 AM until about...
2024 04 01 MN
... spending the night at home I waited... but the call never came. Local dispatch thought they were going to get a lot of trucks over the weekend. But if they did, not were in the mile range that I would do. Finally by noon BB and I were done with what we had to do on our time home so I called loca...