T-SHIRTS TODAY
Finally have some time and a good connection. Sorry so long since a post. Let's see, Ricky was sick and we were in Laredo. Got there on a Monday, was Tuesday before we got low on the board. They called us in to dispatch, (we were thinking.. where will we go this time) well, Ricky was lucky enough to be called in to go to the clinic for a drug screen. : ) We were # 4 on the board... so off we go, and while we are there Ricky decides he will see a doctor...Dr. Ramon Sande-Louro, speaks very little English...oh man... he gives Ricky an antibiotic and cough medicine. So we are hoping it will help. Off to WalMart to fill it, took 2 hrs., anyway, he still has the kidney stone but he is some better, We think he had a bad case of the flu, he is still weak and coughing. He gave me a small case of it. I was better after a week. So we stayed in Laredo for him to get some better, they called us for a load to Canada while we were at the Drs, he was too weak to make that long trip. He got them to take us off the board till Wednesday. His fleet manager got us a load out then so we didn't have to get back on the board with a long wait.
We got a load to Meridian that didn't have to be there till Friday. So we just went 300 miles and shut down for the night. Ricky was wore out and I was running some fever, so we went to bed, both of us woke up at midnight, decided to take a hot shower, hoping to make us feel better. Went back to bed, ( we couldn't leave till 3:00 am), but we did feel better.
The load was a familiar place and we got to stay at our favorite TruckStop (Spaceway) in Meridian. Then we got to go to Mobile, AL to pick up a load to Brownsville, TX. I was liking these southern loads since the winter weather was hitting hard up North.We met an interesting feller at the Love's in Mobile, said he was deported to the US from Belize, he was an American citizen, but lived in Mexico, and was trying to get a ride to the border in Texas and hopfully to Mexico. We helped him with some warmer clothes.. he had on shorts and a thin shirt, and got him a shower and something to eat. Couldn't give him a ride, so we did the best we could do. Wished him luck and told him to e-mail us after he got home. You never know who you might help on the road. The load to Brownsville wasn't to deliver till Monday, so we got to stay by our favorite wing place for the night. Met a Canadian driver named Bill and he ate and spent some time with us. He was a nice feller.
Delivered on Monday morning and then ran over to Mission, TX for a load of potato chips and cheese dip to go to Mexico : ) Took it to El Paso, TX to go over the border. Then we got a load out of there to Calexico, CA
Kenworth truck parts, left there for Loma Linda, CA with a load of hot water heaters, Ricky had to back the trailer in off the street through a fence gate, beside a building (with an overhang),along a fence with limbs sticking out. He did really good. Sure was proud of him. Took 2 boys almost 3 hours to unload 58 heaters, an old woman like me could have done it alot faster. They wouldn't last at O'Reillys.
Soon as they were through, got a dispatch to Carson, CA....which is really... Los Angeles...by Long Beach. We were lucky it was about 1:00pm there so we got over there faster than we thought we would. Was a drop and hook and it was all ready, even though we were a little early. It was3:00 their time when we left, hoped for a easy out too. WRONG, those people must not work till 5:00, took us almost 4 hours to get across LA. I don't see doing that traffic twice a day every day to get to work. Lets live where you make less if we have too and the cost of living is way lower.
We were going back to El Paso with another load going to Mexico. Got here Friday night and went straight to bed, was a long hard day, seemed like the miles didn't pass quick enough. Now we are hooked to a trailer going to Kansas that doesn't have to deliver till Tuesday, so we are sitting to get a reset. We needed our log fresh for the week.
Heard from my Kelly girl yesterday, am so proud of her, she got a job at Chase, where she will be using her degree finally, and not working so hard. Restaurant work is alot of hard work. Our Jason works for Chase in MO and he just got a good review with a bonus, I'm so proud of him too. Holly is going to school to be a EMT with the fire department in Indiana. She is really excited about it all. I'm proud of her too. Our Daniel just got a good review too at his job in Texas, I'm so proud of all my kids, they have grown up to be very consciencious about there jobs, making for good employees. They are chips off the old blocks. : )
Well got laundry done, think I will go in the Truckstop and watch a movie. They have a nice little theater in there.
I've got you all caught up now. : )
Living Our Dream.... Belinda and Ricky
Finally have some time and a good connection. Sorry so long since a post. Let's see, Ricky was sick and we were in Laredo. Got there on a Monday, was Tuesday before we got low on the board. They called us in to dispatch, (we were thinking.. where will we go this time) well, Ricky was lucky enough to be called in to go to the clinic for a drug screen. : ) We were # 4 on the board... so off we go, and while we are there Ricky decides he will see a doctor...Dr. Ramon Sande-Louro, speaks very little English...oh man... he gives Ricky an antibiotic and cough medicine. So we are hoping it will help. Off to WalMart to fill it, took 2 hrs., anyway, he still has the kidney stone but he is some better, We think he had a bad case of the flu, he is still weak and coughing. He gave me a small case of it. I was better after a week. So we stayed in Laredo for him to get some better, they called us for a load to Canada while we were at the Drs, he was too weak to make that long trip. He got them to take us off the board till Wednesday. His fleet manager got us a load out then so we didn't have to get back on the board with a long wait.
We got a load to Meridian that didn't have to be there till Friday. So we just went 300 miles and shut down for the night. Ricky was wore out and I was running some fever, so we went to bed, both of us woke up at midnight, decided to take a hot shower, hoping to make us feel better. Went back to bed, ( we couldn't leave till 3:00 am), but we did feel better.
The load was a familiar place and we got to stay at our favorite TruckStop (Spaceway) in Meridian. Then we got to go to Mobile, AL to pick up a load to Brownsville, TX. I was liking these southern loads since the winter weather was hitting hard up North.We met an interesting feller at the Love's in Mobile, said he was deported to the US from Belize, he was an American citizen, but lived in Mexico, and was trying to get a ride to the border in Texas and hopfully to Mexico. We helped him with some warmer clothes.. he had on shorts and a thin shirt, and got him a shower and something to eat. Couldn't give him a ride, so we did the best we could do. Wished him luck and told him to e-mail us after he got home. You never know who you might help on the road. The load to Brownsville wasn't to deliver till Monday, so we got to stay by our favorite wing place for the night. Met a Canadian driver named Bill and he ate and spent some time with us. He was a nice feller.
Delivered on Monday morning and then ran over to Mission, TX for a load of potato chips and cheese dip to go to Mexico : ) Took it to El Paso, TX to go over the border. Then we got a load out of there to Calexico, CA
Kenworth truck parts, left there for Loma Linda, CA with a load of hot water heaters, Ricky had to back the trailer in off the street through a fence gate, beside a building (with an overhang),along a fence with limbs sticking out. He did really good. Sure was proud of him. Took 2 boys almost 3 hours to unload 58 heaters, an old woman like me could have done it alot faster. They wouldn't last at O'Reillys.
Soon as they were through, got a dispatch to Carson, CA....which is really... Los Angeles...by Long Beach. We were lucky it was about 1:00pm there so we got over there faster than we thought we would. Was a drop and hook and it was all ready, even though we were a little early. It was3:00 their time when we left, hoped for a easy out too. WRONG, those people must not work till 5:00, took us almost 4 hours to get across LA. I don't see doing that traffic twice a day every day to get to work. Lets live where you make less if we have too and the cost of living is way lower.
We were going back to El Paso with another load going to Mexico. Got here Friday night and went straight to bed, was a long hard day, seemed like the miles didn't pass quick enough. Now we are hooked to a trailer going to Kansas that doesn't have to deliver till Tuesday, so we are sitting to get a reset. We needed our log fresh for the week.
Heard from my Kelly girl yesterday, am so proud of her, she got a job at Chase, where she will be using her degree finally, and not working so hard. Restaurant work is alot of hard work. Our Jason works for Chase in MO and he just got a good review with a bonus, I'm so proud of him too. Holly is going to school to be a EMT with the fire department in Indiana. She is really excited about it all. I'm proud of her too. Our Daniel just got a good review too at his job in Texas, I'm so proud of all my kids, they have grown up to be very consciencious about there jobs, making for good employees. They are chips off the old blocks. : )
Well got laundry done, think I will go in the Truckstop and watch a movie. They have a nice little theater in there.
I've got you all caught up now. : )
Living Our Dream.... Belinda and Ricky
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