1 rental truck to Shakopee MN (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Breakfast was last nights leftovers. Then as we were leaving, BB checked and they had bacon for breakfast :(

Same route, nothing new.

... but pulling out of the first town I had to slow down for ... I kept up to traffic, set my cruise and then looked down to see what I had set it at ... 74 mph!!! In a 65 mph zone. But my speedometer still showed 55 mph. Flipping through the screen settings, I found the digital speedometer ... 74 mph. The mechanical speedometer stay about 20 mph off for the next two hours.

Then when we got to stop lights somewhere again, the digital matched the mechanical again for the rest of the trip. No idea.

Fuel, this truck was no on full when I picked it up yesterday but it was full enough that I still had 3/8 when I got to delivery.

1st stop (no phone calls today) was the drop in Shakopee. This time there was a semi ahead of me in line. I had to get out of his way and as I did, a <> taxi almost backed into me. Because they wanted me out of the semi's way, I had to come through the gate at a bad angle. But I made it without hitting anything.

The person directing the semi was the same guard as yesterday. There were two checking me in today. One training and the other learning. It sounded almost like this was the first vehicle they were checking in today. Detailed, no comparing it to the 'prior car.'

It was only slightly raining when I was parking and leaving the lot. BB messaged me just as I was parking.

It was raining today, so that is the end of the run of great weather the farmers were having for harvesting. Lots of combines out, huge wagons or semi's lining the fields. Still lots to go.

Once I called dispatch and got my release number ... we played with our phones for a while. Dispatch had said the pictures we send to his emails are huge. So I was thinking the pictures of paperwork BB was sending to his email was huge. Then by the time we finally found a work around, I remembered that BB was sending them as a PDF, that the picture was inside the PDF so this was not an issue. Lots of time to kill?

We also talked about trips and the math doesn't really work great. Just one of us driving. But at this point we also need to be comparing it to sitting at home. Some money coming in, or no money coming it.

... I think we did make 4x as much doing local this week than if we had taken the to RV's to MT. But no more local right now. Just one in ND coming back to MN.

2nd stop is Bo Diddley's in Eden Prairie. We don't have one of the major deli chains in our town. This one was good, the cashier was an Ausi so we needed help communicating. Aussie. Food was good, deli is in a very small indoor mall.

We keep watching the load board. We do the math on all the trips and the numbers are close enough, we even line up a rental car for the week. Then we decide to wait until 4:30 again ... unless two RV's show up.

RV's do show up near 4 PM. But we decide to do our math first, we need to find a cheap rental car that makes the trip worth it. At one point I even had the phone in my hand to call. But as we did the math, that trip would disappear. (It's been years since we put a trip on hold so we could do the math) Then the 2nd pair disappear.

So we are back to working local, there were still three left ... but in just a few minutes while we worked on the RV's ... all three of the local trash truck trips are gone. And only those three. Even the rental truck in ND is gone. So now we are home for the weekend and beyond ???

Not our plan.

On Tuesday when we were in WI, I had seen a tanker truck in transport. I remember picking one up near there years ago but couldn't remember where it was. I even thought I might (remember to) ask the drop who the shipper was. But that didn't happen.

Today there are two tankers out of that shipper. But the trips are too many miles to chase and not enough money to just run one trip and get a rental car.

Also that day I saw the potato farmers on a different field. I had seen the same farmers out when we went to Omro. That day they were digging potatoes and dumping them on the ground. It looked like a machine just for that. At the time I couldn't remember why they did it that way. Later I remembered that they do that to open the field so the trucks have somewhere to drive without making smashed potatoes.

Load board

US - 218

IA - 1/0 (we assume they removed the last of the RV's so they could have another weekend off)

MN - 9

WI - 12