TIME FLIES WHEN YOUR ON THE ROAD
Geeezz, looked at my last post, didn't realize it was from Tuesday and it,s Sunday already : ) So let's see..left the crazy truckstop and drove on into Laredo, got there about 9:30 Wednesday night. Ricky dropped the trailer, went to check in, and got a new load to take to Fairburn, GA. A trailer load of bowl cleaner and paste wax, of all things, and Fairburn is just outside of Ricky's favorite town....Atlanta...aagainnn, so off to get a quick shower and a nap. Drove through some heavy rain on our way out of Texas, the roads were flooding in several places. They shut down 59 hwy behind us after we drove through a flooded part. We drove to Frog City truckstop out from Lafayette, got a bite to eat, did laundry and went to bed. Drove on into Fairburn and got there two hours early. They said they would unload us when they could, but not before Ricky's hours would be up. So we dropped the trailer at the dock and parked in the lot for the night. Got up saturday morning..and guess what..still not unloaded..arghhhhh..had to wait alittle longer. So unloaded and now off to Macon, Ga to pick up a loaded trailer to take to Centralia, IL. Got this heavy..78,000 lb load of paper on rolls to bring up the mountains.
Monteagle was fun. Crawled up and jaked it down. Paco hates the jake brake. At least ours has a good muffler on it. The high pitch does a job on Paco's ears. Just after we got into IL , we had a good scare, all of a sudden , there was a air hose noise, Ricky got stopped on the shoulder of the hwy, thinking we were gonna lose our brakes, a hose came shooting out from under his chair, spraying air and waving like a snake. His seats have an adjustment where you raise them up or down with air lines, and his came loose. It had great timing. Like to have given us both a heart attack. When we recovered and got back in the busy traffic, we got on into our delivery 3 hours early and got unloaded but since we are running on a ragged book...we are out of hours again. Sitting in there lot taking a 10 hour break. Have to go to Pocahontas, IL in the wee hours..leaving here at 1:00am.to pick up a loaded trailer in the CFI dropyard to take and deliver in Terre Haute, IN. about 8:00 in the morning and then pick up a load somewhere there to take to Joplin, after another 10 hour break. Some times these hour of service rules are as dumb as a box of rocks. I think we will finally pick up enough hours after midnight Monday to get us on into Joplin, but we will have to drive after midnight and get into the yard about noon Tuesday, but then we will be off for 5 days. We have been out for about 5 weeks. So off to bed for a nap for a busy day tomorrow. I'll be glad to be home.
Off to do some short dreamin tonight...Belinda
Geeezz, looked at my last post, didn't realize it was from Tuesday and it,s Sunday already : ) So let's see..left the crazy truckstop and drove on into Laredo, got there about 9:30 Wednesday night. Ricky dropped the trailer, went to check in, and got a new load to take to Fairburn, GA. A trailer load of bowl cleaner and paste wax, of all things, and Fairburn is just outside of Ricky's favorite town....Atlanta...aagainnn, so off to get a quick shower and a nap. Drove through some heavy rain on our way out of Texas, the roads were flooding in several places. They shut down 59 hwy behind us after we drove through a flooded part. We drove to Frog City truckstop out from Lafayette, got a bite to eat, did laundry and went to bed. Drove on into Fairburn and got there two hours early. They said they would unload us when they could, but not before Ricky's hours would be up. So we dropped the trailer at the dock and parked in the lot for the night. Got up saturday morning..and guess what..still not unloaded..arghhhhh..had to wait alittle longer. So unloaded and now off to Macon, Ga to pick up a loaded trailer to take to Centralia, IL. Got this heavy..78,000 lb load of paper on rolls to bring up the mountains.
Monteagle was fun. Crawled up and jaked it down. Paco hates the jake brake. At least ours has a good muffler on it. The high pitch does a job on Paco's ears. Just after we got into IL , we had a good scare, all of a sudden , there was a air hose noise, Ricky got stopped on the shoulder of the hwy, thinking we were gonna lose our brakes, a hose came shooting out from under his chair, spraying air and waving like a snake. His seats have an adjustment where you raise them up or down with air lines, and his came loose. It had great timing. Like to have given us both a heart attack. When we recovered and got back in the busy traffic, we got on into our delivery 3 hours early and got unloaded but since we are running on a ragged book...we are out of hours again. Sitting in there lot taking a 10 hour break. Have to go to Pocahontas, IL in the wee hours..leaving here at 1:00am.to pick up a loaded trailer in the CFI dropyard to take and deliver in Terre Haute, IN. about 8:00 in the morning and then pick up a load somewhere there to take to Joplin, after another 10 hour break. Some times these hour of service rules are as dumb as a box of rocks. I think we will finally pick up enough hours after midnight Monday to get us on into Joplin, but we will have to drive after midnight and get into the yard about noon Tuesday, but then we will be off for 5 days. We have been out for about 5 weeks. So off to bed for a nap for a busy day tomorrow. I'll be glad to be home.
Off to do some short dreamin tonight...Belinda
posted by RickLynn | 5:54 PM
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