Saturday, February 14, 2026

 When my 10 hours were up, I left.  Very good day (night) on the road.  Much better driving at night.  Drove 641 miles to the Love's truck stop in Hogansville, Georgia.  I'll be here until Monday morning.

Friday, February 13, 2026

 I left early this morning in heavy fog.  Drove to Corpus Christi, TX, and loaded a Caterpillar CP 56B Compactor that is going up to McDonnough, Georgia.

Left there in pretty good time.  Had a lot of heavy traffic going around Houston.  Then, west of Beaumont, TX, got stuck in more bumper-to-bumper traffic.  Sat in that for at least an hour. Once I got past that, I had had enough of traffic for the day, so I stopped earlier than I normally would.  I stopped at the Flying J truck stop in Orange, Texas.  Got a good big dinner and a much-needed shower.

Thursday, February 12, 2026

 I left half an hour before sunrise this morning.  LOTS of bumper-to-bumper traffic in Houston.  I-45 between Houston and Galveston was shut down due to a very bad truck fire that happened early this morning.  They were cleaning it up. The info on it is here - Click Here.  I lost about two hours in all the B2B this morning.  Once I finally got through all that, I made it to the Port in Galveston and delivered the tractor.  My next load is tomorrow morning in Corpus Christi, Texas.  I started that way and stopped for the night at a truck stop in Refugio, TX

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

 I left at sunrise this morning. Had a good day on the road until I got to Marshal, Texas.  I-20 was shut down for a bad wreck.  The entrance ramp was closed.  There was another Daily truck in front of me.  The worker blocking the ramp allowed us to round the corner and stop on the ramp.  Because the ramp was a permit load route, there were more big loads coming too.  I convinced him to let us pull down the ramp towards where the wreck was, and the clean-up was in progress. 

Fortunately, the wreck was almost cleaned up.  The wreckage was gone.  All that was left was cleaning up the large fuel spill that was caused when three semi trucks collided. 

I convinced the worker to let us go by when they had the left lane swept clear of the stuff that was scattered all over the Interstate. SO, we were not held up too much.  I continued on to a very small truck stop in Crockett, Texas for the night.  Only 475 miles today.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

 This morning, I drove to the Iowa / Missouri state line and waited for a couple of hours for the rest of my permits to come in.  Once they came in, I had a nice, uneventful day on the road.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in West Memphis, Arkansas.  548 miles today

Monday, February 9, 2026

 This morning, I was back at the Caterpillar dealer first thing and unloaded the compactor. My next load was up in Waterloo, Iowa.  I went up there and loaded a John Deere 9R 640HP Tractor that is going to the Port in Galveston, Texas.  

Left there and drove to a small truck stop on the south side of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the night.

Saturday, February 7, 2026

 I left at about 1 AM CST and drove down to the Caterpillar dealer in Omaha, Nebraska.  There was no one there to accept the machine today; I really didn't expect that there would be.  But I was able to drop my trailer there until Monday morning, when I'll deliver the compactor.   From there, I went over to the Sapp Brothers truck stop, which was about 2 miles from there.  I'll be there for the weekend.