2 RV's to Dayton OH (delivered)

1 trash truck to Fairfield OH (delivered)

1 RV to Ramsey MN (Tuesday)

... spending the night at Fort Wayne OH

The transporter I was talking to last night is leaving about the time we are getting up.

Breakfast last night at the Waffle House was better than this AM's breakfast. Eggs and bacon. Bacon was in circles instead of slices. And I don't think it was supposed to be, but it was cold. And it chewed like jerky. ???

We took everything out of our room when we left in the AM. We took my RV and I dropped BB at the airport. After I dropped her, I found a place to pull over and text our MN dispatcher about a trip for today.

Then I head to the shipper, stopping to add 'dealer fuel' right before the drop. Then we have decided to park my in a strip mall so both RV's are closer to the drop when the drop opens. BB gets there as soon as I am parked.

... not sure how she knew ... but BB asked how much fuel I put in. Our carrier pays for this final dealer fuel. It was a class C RV so I put in $40. Nope, the $40 only applies to the gas Class C RV's so likely I just gave the dealer an extra $20 in fuel. And I had over guessed on our last fill so I had already put in $15 more than I should have. Even with those two opps, we still pocketed some fuel money.

Sometime about now, the MN dispatcher calls back. I get the trip from OH to OH.

This works out because now we can stop back at the hotel and ... and we haven't checked out yet. But we can print our paperwork for my next trip. Or not. All printers are down at the hotel so we can't even get a receipt. But we did stop and use our room one more time for the bathroom before we checked out.

I head back to the drop and drop our rental car at the dealer, then walk across the street to a church parking lot for BB to pick me up and take me back to my RV a few blocks away. That way we both pull in at the same time with our rental car already there.

No one ahead of us and soon after we get there, they pull both RV's into the shop to inspect them. Someone else from our company pulls in a little later and has to wait. We don't talk to them as it is raining and neither of us is waiting inside.

Not sure how new this is, but starting at the mall where we parked my RV is where the overhead lines start for electric buses/trollies. Saw one bus today but it was not using them, and those lines don't show on Google maps.

Our next stop is the Loves in Dayton a few miles away. There had been a Burger King across the street from the Loves and neither of us can remember if it was open last time we were here or getting ready to open. Today it is closed and for sale. ???

We stop here to get my paperwork printed for my next trip and for food. We both get shelve food instead of Hardee's.

For whatever reason, BB hadn't really looked at this next trip. It starts 40 miles from our drop and is a 60 mile trip. Even if we were going to switch rental cars, it still would have been right on our route.

Next stop is in Greenville to pick up a new trash truck that is going in for repairs, it failed the 'further inspection' from the customer. So there is a local shop that will rework it instead of sending it all the way back to MN. Great pay on this short trip. Shipper just signs the paperwork I have and hands me the keys.

Both the shipper and the drop are just off the same US highway so easy ... or almost.

80+ a few days ago and today we have snow again. Even this close to KY in mid April. Not the stay on the ground piles like MN and WI got but this was sticking to the ground for a while. The rest of the time it is just cold cold rain.

I had written down the details of this trip as there were more than three turns. But I didn't catch that there was a 4A and a 4B. So when I got to 4, I turned. Then when I see a street name that I should not be seeing yet I knew I had issues. Then BB starts calling. Nope, even if there is a one in a million chance of getting caught, I'm not going to risk getting a $17,000 fine for being on my phone while driving.

As soon as I can I pull over and call BB, then look at a map. 4A and 4 B run parallel so not a big lost. Luckily I had remembered that street name. It wasn't even one we were turning on, it was the street before I was supposed to turn so that I would know I was turning left at the next light.

Drop was easy, the guy really didn't want another truck to work on but it's not up to him to refuse it. He looked at it from a distance and checked every box OK.

Plans have changed. This AM there was a truck in IN going to WI we had as a backup plan/thought. But now there is one from there going all the way back to MN. More miles and more in route. We call, we get it.

Plan and reservations had been to pick up a local car in Dayton to use for today and then go to Cincinnati to pick up a one day rental to Fort Wayne when we though we would do the two trucks to DC but they didn't pay enough. Then we were going to change the Cinci rental to home as it was a little cheaper and we could change it again this afternoon before we picked it up if we needed to. Finally BB decided to just get a three day rental for more money so we didn't spend as much time switching cars.

Now that we are heading past home, we decided to still keep the rental as planned. An extra $100 for the car plus fuel but we reserved it for three days and we aren't sure what they will charge us for not keeping it three days.

We call and get the MN trip. Too late to pick up today so we will get most of the way to the shipper yet tonight.

Quick stop at the first rest area we see.

Then a longer stop for food before we leave the freeway. Arby's. I try their brisket again. Not sure this time. Everything was cold and it seemed to be the wrong sandwich. BUT we did get two free cookies because we had to wait so long (and we were their only customer and they were fully staffed) ???

Mostly back roads from there to Fort Wayne. As we got off the freeway, there was a big pile of ??? It looked like one of the industrial greenhouses that had collapsed.

Comfort Inn in Fort Wayne for the night.

1st 'stop' - dropping BB at the airport to pick up rental car

2nd - Fuel at Sunoco

3rd - Stage RV at shopping center

4th - Pick up BB's RV from hotel

5th - Stage rental car at drop.

6th - Pick up my RV from shopping center

7th - drop RV's in Dayton

8th - pick up paperwork and food at Loves in Dayton

9th - pick up trash truck in Greenville

10th - drop trash truck in Fairfield

11th - rest area near Middleton

12th - Arby's in Sidney for food

13th - Comfort Inn in Fort Wayne

Load board

US - 185

IA - 8

MN - 9

WI - 28

We have less than two hours to the next shipper, then about eight hours to home. One of these trips we need to get a new I-pass but for some reason the bad one got left in our personal car. Not sure where, I didn't see it when we took our stuff out to put in the RV's.

IF we make good time, we will be home tomorrow night. Then drop the RV on Wednesday AM. From there we still will have enough time to go get our personal car in IA and return this one.

There were good trips earlier today near our house but they are gone. Not sure what will be there for Thurs, Fri ... weekend ...