Saturday, April 30, 2011

Drove right through the heart of where the tornadoes hit the other day.  Here are a few photos I too along the way.

Here is what is left of a Petro Truck Stop. Glad I wasn't there that day!!



Drove 699 miles today.  Stopped for the night at a crappy truck stop that had lousy food, in York, Alabama.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Went into Hanover, VA and delivered the PVC pipe.  After that drove over to McLean, VA for my next load.  McLean is a suburb of Washington DC.  I loaded at a construction site where they are building fly-overs as part of I-495.  Huge project.  I was picking up crane rigging from a HUGE crane that was used there but now being shipped back to Texas. The crane itself was already gone.  Here are a bunch of photos of them loading my truck. By the way, that is the smaller crane.

Those cables that are being loaded on the truck are as big around as my thigh.

Then we had to move to another location for the last part of the load.  To get out I had to back out along the "Jersey wall", past the white pick up truck (behind the crane) and then into the intersection where the stop light is.  Then turn right down that road.  Had to back in off that road to the next place.
Want to try it??   C'mon, I know you do!!  Go on, give it a try!!

And this is what it looks like all loaded and tied down.

Left there right at rush hour.  Just what I wanted, another trip in DC rush hour traffic!!  Took forever to get out to I-81. Needless to say, I didn't get too far tonight.  Stopped at a truck stop on I-81 in Raphine, VA.  Took a long hot shower!!  Tried something new tonight.  What do you think? 

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Went into Tallahassee and delivered the steel this morning.

After that I drove to Adel, Georgia and picked up 45,000 pounds of PVC pipe going to Virginia.

Then I drove to the Petro truck stop in Kenly, NC for the night.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Got the rest of the work done on my truck.  Drove up to Tallahassee to deliver the steel tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 27, 2011

Went to Orlando this morning and had all that work done on the truck.  It really needed it done bad!!  Took all day.  Didn't get back home until 6:30 this evening.  Didn't get the rest of the work done on the truck that was supposed to get done back here so I'll have to do it tomorrow.  Steel delivery will just have to wait.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Had my clutch adjusted on the truck this morning.  Found 3 broken welds on the trailer again.  They were fixed too.  Then went to Jacksonville and picked up Mom at the airport.  Her trip was great and she had a wonderful time.  Tomorrow back to Orlando to have my shackle bushings replaced and then the truck aligned.  After that back to Seville again to have a little more done on the truck there.  Busy day ahead.