Left Marianna this morning and arrived in Pensacola right at 7 am CDT. Checked in with security. They said the guy "...was in a meeting but should be calling you in when he gets out". I went back to the truck and waited. At 11 am CDT I went back to security and inquired about my status. All they would say was "They know you are there". I went back to my truck and waited. At 2 pm CDT I went back to security and asked again. This time they said that "...they had issues on first shift" and that "...they would load me on second shift". Second shift didn't start until 3:30 CDT. I went back to my truck and waited again. Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper. At 3:15 pm CDT security called me and said "come on in". I was first in line with four other trucks. Waited until 4 pm CDT and they started to load us. They finally put the wind generator hub on my trailer. It weighs 57,300 pounds. It is the thing that the blades attach to on the huge wind generators that Obama and the democrats think will save the world!! Got it chained down. Then it was time to tarp it. Fortunately they used the fork lift to drape them over the top of the thing. Secured them as best as I could then got on the road. I didn't get out of there until 6:45 pm CDT!!!!
Well all I had to do was get up on I-10 and that damn tarp started to flap like a huge flag. I hate those ^&*(&*%^&$^*& things!! Made it to the weigh station. The only good thing about today was that the DOT did not give me any hassles. Permit was fine. I pulled over to the side and tried to fix the tarp flappage. Got back on the road again. Still flappage!! Drove to the Oasis truck stop just inside Alabama for the night. Oh the troubles didn't stop there! Pulled up to get fuel and my locking fuel caps had some rust in the locks and I couldn't get the key in. Worked on them for about 15 minutes and got them freed up. Filled up both tanks. Then went to scale up. The scale is in a crummy place here so I had to drive around the parking lot, go back out on the road and come in again. Scaled up then pulled over to the side, parked and went in to get my paperwork. Well, the girl behind the counter was having a good ole time talking to some guy in front of me. By the time she got around to doing her job I was really fuming!! She gave me my fuel ticket but could not find the scale ticket. She fumbled around for another five minutes. I went and sat down at at table. Finally I could not take it any more. I said I'll go get on the scale again. I went back out, got in my truck, drove around the parking lot and got up on the scale again. By this time I'm ready to kill someone. After she got my weight again I went and parked the truck. I needed to calm down a little bit before I went back inside. I worked on the tarp again. Hopefully I have it this time. Went back in, got my scale ticket - I'm 96,300 pounds. Took a long hot shower then had dinner. Hope tomorrow is better!! Good night!!
