Friday, June 3, 2011

Delivered first thing this morning in Orlando and then drove home.  Was home by 9 am!!  Will be here for the weekend.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Left the Washington DC area this morning and drove to the Thermo King shop in Ashland, VA. The bad fuel affected the APU and made it run real bad. I had them do a routine oil and filters change. While changing the fuel filters he flushed out the fuel line just in case there was any more gunk in there.  After he put it all back together, it ran great! Problem solved (for now).

Got back on the road and had a very nice, pleasant day on the road.  Stopped for the night in a rest area on I-95 at approximately the 303 mile marker in Hastings, Florida.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Can you believe that half the year is over already?  Wow! time flies when you are having fun!!

Drove down to Keasbery, NJ (that's near Edison) to a large asphalt plant and picked up two sets of triple axles and some other metal stuff.  On the way down I took a very small detour and went passed a certain house.  It looked great!!

After that I went and picked up my load in Keasbery.

Drove down to a truck rest area south of Washington DC for the night.

Tuesday, May 31,2011

Got started early today.  Drove into Searsmont, Maine and delivered the natural gas compressor.  Drove way back down a narrow, up and down, twisty-turny road to get in and out of there.  Very pretty scenery here.  After that, I drove over to Union, Maine and delivered the tractor.  Finished that and drove to Bloomfield, CT to the Home Depot Distribution Center.  My appointment was not until tomorrow morning at 10 am but I played dumb (easy for me to do)  and was able to get in and unloaded today.  I got lucky!!  That hardly ever happens at distribution centers.  They make appointments and stick to the schedule, period! And don't EVER be late!!  They may not unload you for a couple days if you are late. Wal-Mart is notorious for that.  Anyway, I'm empty now!!   Drove down to one of the only truck stops in Connecticut in Milldale at the TA truck stop.  Made it just in time.  I got here at 4 pm and got one of the very few parking spots left.  I really don't like coming to the north east.  It is so crowded and expensive!!  Nothing is "truck friendly" up here.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Reset is finished.  Left Scranton, PA at 1 am today because my APU started acting up.  I think the fuel filter is clogged.  The fuel filters on the truck are really bad so I'm assuming that the same thing is happening to the APU. I must have gotten a bad tank of fuel someplace because my fuel filters have never looked that bad.  They are not that old. While on the road, I stopped and had the truck fuel filters changed.  They didn't have one for the APU.  Stopped for the night at a service plaza on the Maine Turnpike (I-95) in Gardner, Maine.  First delivery is about 45 minutes from here tomorrow morning.

Saturday, May, 28, 2011

Got on the road early this morning.  Only had 6 hours left before reset so I drove up to Scranton, PA to the Petro truck stop.  Did my reset there.