Posted by admin on Jan 27, 2009 in
Where Am I? Just a quick update… delivered my load of “Go-Gurt” that I picked up in Murfreesboro, TN yesterday and dropped at Washington Court House, OH… the Walmart DC there.
Damn yard monkeys
Spent an hour and a half waiting on “Asset Protection” (security) to come and do a report… some yard monkey decided to “trim” the side-skin on the MTY trailer I was picking up… when they backed it into the spot, they rubbed the corner of the trailer next to it and gashed open the side. <sigh>
Got a load picking up tomorrow morning at 0900 in New Albany, Indiana… going to Haverhill, MA for the 30th at 0800.
Been raining / freezing rain / sleeting all damn trip today… got about a half a ton of ice on my truck:
MY office "view" today
Saw this “unique” vehicle while driving today… it’s a mid-80’s Buick Century that’s been… how shall I put it… “altered”?
And lastly… saw this last night at the truck stop in Glendale, KY where I bedded down… who can resist a cute puppy photo?
Posted by admin on Jan 26, 2009 in
Where Am I? So I dropped my load of Eggo’s Friday morning… and sat Sat… and sat Sun.
BUT… I’m rolling again this morning! Got a nice “easy” load going from Murfreesboro, TN to Washington Court House, OH. The appointment time wasn’t until 1800 tonight… but having nothing much else to do, I took a gamble and showed up about 6 hours early. No love… they had only barely backed the trailer in the door. But I could park in front of the trailer and they’d let me know when it was ready!
So that’s what I did… and low and behold… no sooner had I settle down (and nearly asleep) watching “The Dirty Dozen” when the dock dude came a’bangin’! Sweet! Rolled out of there, headed up I24 North into Nashville, then rolled on I65 North towards Louisville, KY. Made it as fas as x86 Glendale, KT and the Petro there. The Petro’s have a pretty decent resaurant chain in them called “The Iron Skillet”. You can guess what the dishes are made of… anyways, a good meal later and I’m hunkering down in the sleeper for the night. I have another 229 miles to do tomorrow (about 5 hours), and the 90 is a drop and hook so it’s at my convienence!
The down-side? They’re calling for an ice-storm / winter weather watch tonight from Midnight until tomorrow night (what you guys are supposed to be getting this weekend I guess?), so I’m not sure how far / how quick I’ll get moving in the morning, but I’m gonna try! I figure I’ll try to head outta here around 8 or 9 (after rush-hour)… hopefully even with weather, that’ll put me at the 90 around 2 or 3… maybe even 4. I have until about 1600 to finish the load and get to a truck stop to scan my paperwork in by 1630 to be included in this week’s check… other-wise it’ll have to wait until next week’s check.
Working my way up into New England… should be (hopefully) home this weekend… I won’t have much of any time to “visit” with folks this trip as it’ll only be a day or three to get my stuff on the truck and see my sweetie… so you may have to wait until next trip dear avid reader to see “De Big Truk”!
Posted by admin on Jan 24, 2009 in
Where Am I? Okay, been a few days… let’s see… after I got the pig-tail replaced, I drove… and drove… and drove! Duh! That’s what I do for a living!
Got to Brownsville, TN Friday morning right on time and delivered the load without incident… the children around the area will be “happy” to know that 44,000 lbs of brussel sprouts are now available for purchase and consumption!
Me, personally… I’m damn glad to have the nasty little f***ers off my truck! Talk about needing a thorough trailer wash-out! But I digress…
Got a load right after that… in Rossville, TN going to Antioch, TN… pickup was at the Kellogs bakery there… you roll into the place and it smells SOOOOO good! Got loaded up last night with 27,000 lbs of Eggo Waffles! I was looking for a tanker of maple syrup and a gasoline tanker to crash into so we could light the whole damn thing up and have some BBQ waffles for breakfast this morning! ROFLMAO
Delivered that load earlier this morning without incident… dropped my nice clean trailer (I think it STILL smelled of brussel sprouts…) and got this nasty-ass dirty trailer that the salt was so caked on, I had to use windex to clean the lights to see if there were even working!!
Anyways… I’ve hunkered down at the TA on I24 x62 for the night… nothing doing right now according to dispatch… which is okay, allows me some “breathing” time… although the miles would be nice too!
By the way… those of you in Maine don’t get the enjoyment of bill boards… there are TONS of them across the highways of America. Most of them are dull and ordinary, but every now and again you run across one that’s so damn funny you have to pull over and take a picture of it. I didn’t take this photo, but you’ll see what I mean:
It looks like the Prime main yard here tonight… there’s at least a dozen other trucks here so I guess I may be here a bit! Until we meet further down the road dear avid reader!