Saturday, November 5, 2011

Left Raphine, Virginia as soon as the sun came up.  Nice pleasant day on the road.  Drove up to Crawfordsville, Indiana (that's north west of Indianapolis) for the rest of the weekend.  Will start again Monday morning when the sun comes up.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Drove in to Chesapeake, VA this morning and delivered the generators before the sun came up.  After that drove over to Harrisonburg, VA for my next load.  Picked up a 38,000 pound concrete vault.  It is going to a new courthouse being built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

After securing it to the trailer, I got on the road.  Didn't get very far.  There is a curfew in Charleston, West Virginia from 4 to 6 pm and no overnight parking on the WV Turnpike so I stopped at the Petro truck stop in Raphine, Virginia for the night,

Thursday, Movember 3, 2011

Today went a whole lot smoother than yesterday.  Left real early to beat the Atlanta rush hour traffic.  It worked!!  Got to Griffin, GA early and got loaded pretty quick.  Picked up 4 large generators.  They are going to Chesepeake, VA.

Got on the road and drove up to Emporia, VA to the Pilot truck stop for the night.  Deliver in the morning.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Got off to a good start this morning until we went through a construction area.  The right lane was closed for repaving.  As we went through the construction area the truck in front of me was oversize too.  He took out all the road cones.  One of them landed right in the road directly in front of my truck.  I couldn't stop in time and there was nowhere to go but right over the cone.  As it went under the truck it pulled off a small coolant line.  Didn't know it until the "Low Coolant" light came on and the temperature shot up.  We pulled over to the side of the road, quickly found the problem, and fixed it before all the coolant was all gone.  He had some extra coolant and water which we added to my truck.  That was just barely enough to get me to a truck stop where I added 2 gallons of coolant and a lot of water.  That worked.  From there on it was a nice drive down to Smyrna, TN to the Nissan plant.  Delivered the "things".  After that went over to Peterbilt and had my coolant drained (since it was mostly water) and refilled with coolant.  Also had them replace a fuel line check valve that has been bad for months.

My next load is down in Griffin, GA so I drove down to Atlanta to spend the night at the Petro truck stop.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Drove in to Columbus this morning and picked up my next load.  I have no idea what they are or what they are used for.  All I know is that they are going to a Nissan auto plant in Smyrna, TN. 

There was another Daily driver there picking up some much bigger "boxes" going to the same place.  You can see the front of his truck behind my truck in the top photo.  We both left together and are driving together down to Tennessee.  We didn't get very far today because it took all morning to load.  Stopped at the Petro truck stop in Glendale, Kentucky for the night.

Monday, October 31, 22011

Fortunately I didn't have to wait too long this morning for West Virginia to send me my permit.  I was on the road by 8:30.  Drove down to Belle, West Virginia and delivered the big bucket.  After that went back to Nitro, West Virginia and delivered the little excavator.  Think about this one!!  He drove it off my trailer without using ramps!!  He did good!! 

My next load picks up in Columbus, Ohio tomorrow morning.  I went up that way and stopped for the night at a small Pilot truck stop in Circleville, Ohio.