Friday, July 13, 2012

Got on the road real early this morning and drove into Baltimore to the port and delivered the generator.  Different part of the port than where I usually go.  This one was on the south side of the Harbor Tunnel. By the time I got there the plastic shrink wrap had disintigrated.  This is what it looked like under it.

And here is the boat it is going on.

Since I still don't have another load, I went to the TA truck stop in Jessup, MD for the weekend.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Left this morning and drove pretty much straight through to Hancock, Maryland to a truck stop there.  Will deliver tomorrow in Baltimore.  No real hurry, don't have another load lined up yet.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Left Hurricane, WV at sun up and drove to Lafayette, Indiana and delivered the excavator.  Fortunately my next load was also in Lafayette BUT it didn't load until tomorrow at 11 am.  Since I was only 5 miles from there I decided to go over and see if they could squeeze me in.  I got very lucky!!  They could and I got loaded with a Caterpillar 3516 Engine and a box of parts.  They are going to the port in Baltimore and then on a boat to Abu Dhabi.

After that drove to the Petro truck stop in Angola, Indiana for the night.

Monday & Tuesday, July 9, & 10, 2012

Finally got a load Monday afternoon.  Drove over to Kernersville, NC and loaded a John Deere 290G Excavator.  It is going to Layafette, Indiana.  It was very hot and no shade!  Thermometer on the truck read 109. 

Got on the road and drove through Mt. Pilot again.  I wonder why they called it Pilot Mountain?  It doesn't look like a pilot.

It looks like a big breast.  Maybe it should be called Boob Mountain?  Or Ta-Ta Teton?  At the top would be the Breast Crest. The road around it would be Areola Circle. Sorry, I guess I'm milking this for all it's worth.  Anyway, I stopped for the night at the truck stop in Mt. Airy (Mayberry), NC.  Verizon's internet service was down so I couldn't post last night. 

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Got up this morning and noticed that my trailer looked a bit odd.

One of the pins that hold the back axle on was gone.

Obviously, I couldn't go anywhere like that so I went over to Goober's Garage to see if they could fix it.  It really wasn't Goober's, but close enough.  It had to be a pin of solid steel 2 inches thick and 6 inches long.  Like this one:

Of course no place in town had anything like that, however there was a machine shop down the street.  They said that they could make one.  They did, and it was a good one too.  When the pin got back to the garage they put it in and I was finally on the road.  Since I got such a late start I didn't get very far.  Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Hurricane, West Virginia.