Thursday, October 15, 2026

 When I left this morning, the trailer had an air leak, a big one.  The truck's air compressor was able to maintain good air pressure, so I drove to the TA truck stop in Robertsdale, Alabama, to get it fixed.  The leveling valve was bad, and they replaced it.  Then I continued on to the Port in Mobile, Alabama.  Dropped the trailer there for the other driver.  Then I drove, bobtail, back to Jacksonville, Florida.  550 miles today. I'm tired!!

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

 There was a flatbed trailer here in the Jacksonville yard that needed to go to Mobile, Alabama, for a load.  Another driver was on his way, but the load had to be loaded before he could get to Jacksonville and then drive to Mobile.  So I took the trailer over to Mobile, and he drove straight to Mobile so he could load in time.  I left with the trailer and drove to the Pilot truck stop in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, for the night.  I'll drop off the trailer at the Port of Mobile in the morning and then bobtail back to Jacksonville.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

 Watched the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch visible this morning from the Daily terminal in Jacksonville, Florida.  Could see it beautifully.  As usual, the photos don't do it justice.

If you look closely, you can see the boosters that separated from the rocket.  One of them is the little white dot just to the right of the jellyfish cloud.  The other is below it, but much more difficult to see.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Saturday, October 10, 2026

 

Friday, October 9, 2026

 At 2:30 AM, when my 10 hours were up, I left.  Drove the rest of the way to Pompano Beach.  Daily had a driver quit, so I was recovering the truck to take back to Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The truck was parked in a church parking lot.  I got there and found the truck.  I loaded the truck onto my trailer and secured it.  

When I measured the height, it was 14 feet, 5 inches high.  That is not good.  It has to be 13 feet, 6 inches high or less.  I emailed the appropriate people and waited for a response.  He got there at about 10 AM.

He took off the stack.  

When he finished, I left.  Of course, I got into bumper-to-bumper traffic in South Florida.  Once I got out of there, it was fairly smooth sailing in heavy traffic until I got to St. Augustine.  I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper, and slow-and-go traffic from there to Jacksonville.  Took forever to get through that!!!  I finally made it to the Daily terminal in Jacksonville.  I'll be here for several days.  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

 I left Marianna this morning and drove down to Panama City and delivered the wheel loader.  They are under a Hurricane Warning, but the weather was fine while I was there.  The hurricane is not supposed to get there until tomorrow morning.  Anyway, I'm going down to Pompano Beach from here.  One of our drivers quit, and I'm going to go pick up his truck and take it to Carlisle, PA.  I drove down to a truck stop in Fort Pierce, Florida, for the night.  Ran out of hours.  525 miles today.  

There is a LOT of equipment headed toward the Florida Panhandle in preparation for the coming hurricane.  Large convoys of power trucks, tree removal trucks, Emergency Management vehicles, search and rescue equipment, etc., are all on their way west.