Saturday, July 17, 2010

Drove up to Oak Creek, Wisconsin.  That is just south of Milwaukee.  Will be here until Monday morning.  Deliver this load in New Berlin, Wisconsin Monday morning.

My new VuCube works great!!!   Glad I got it!!!

Friday, July 16, 2010

Went to Thermo King in Denver and got my APU fixed, minor repair.  They were jerks. Must not be a very good place to work, seemed like they were all unhappy.  Won't go there again!!

Then drove to Des Moines, Iowa and spent the night there.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Spent most of the day getting my new VuCube installed at the Grand Junction Peterbilt shop.  Then drove to Denver.  Drove east on I-70.  My favorite interstate highway.  Had to stop 3 times going up hill to let the truck cool down.  Took a few more photos for you.  If you pay attention you can see in a couple of them that I was parked on the side of the road cooling the engine off when I took the photo.

Cooling off.

Cooling off again just before the Eisenhower Tunnel. Elevation 11,000 feet.

Inside the tunnel. Bet you didn't know that!  :)

Going down the other side.  12 miles of 5% and 6% grade dropping 4,000 feet.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

After I got my load on and secured I drove up I-15 to I-70. These photos are along I-70 east bound in Utah.

Stopped for the night in Grand Junction, Colorado

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Dropped off my load this morning then went to pick up my next load.  It was only 9 miles away over near Nellis Air Force Base.  They were doing a lot of flying today.  F-15s and F-16s taking off right over my head.  Really cool!!!  Really LOUD too!!!

Las Vegas is building a new waste water treatment facility.  They are running the pipe underground.  72 inch pipe from Nellis AFB and 80 inch pipe from Las Vegas feed the facility.  They hired this company from Wisconsin to tunnel underground and insert the pipes. They used tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to do this. The ones used are smaller versions of the ones you see on TV boring huge tunnels.  Anyway,the job is finished now and all their equipment is being shipped back to Wisconsin. I am taking two shipping containers with hydraulic pumps and equipment for the TBM.  Also taking a huge steel "push ring" back.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Drove up to Las Vegas, NV.  Stayed overnight in The Orleans Hotel & Casino just off the "strip" in Las Vegas.  Great room and very good price.  They have a large truck parking lot too.

Walked down Las Vegas Blvd.  It was 110 degrees.  Had dinner in Caesars Palace at the buffet. then took a taxi back to the hotel.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Drove from San Antonio, TX to Lordsburg, New Mexico today.  736 miles.  Stopped and got my oil changed on the way.  The photo was taken from I-10 west bound in El Paso, Texas looking across the border into Juarez, Mexico.  Juarez is where the drug wars are going on.  Over 2000 murders there last year.  You can see the border fence in the bottom of the photo behind the train cars.