Saturday, February 23, 2013

Left the truck stop in Jane Lew this morning.  Drove down to Charleston WV and got a hotel room at the Microtel Inn for the rest of the weekend.  Not a bad place!   Need to do laundry.  Spent the rest of the day doing a LOT of laundry and watching the Nationwide Race at Daytona on TV.  

Friday, February 22, 2013

Went in to the Port of Baltimore this morning to load and found out that the machine was already picked up. I went over to Daily's Baltimore terminal and found that not only had it been picked up from the Port but it had been delivered already.  Fortunately there were about five of those same machines going to the same place.  The other driver somehow got the wrong machine.  So I went back to the Port and loaded the machine he was supposed to take.  Finally loaded a Caterpillar 324 Excavator.  It is going to Nitro, West Virginia.  

After the  2 1/2 hour delay, I was finally on the road.  Ran into some light snow that didn't last long.  It turned to rain and it pretty much stayed that way for about an hour or so.  The temperature was in the low 30s and upper 20s.  The road crews were out in force salting the road and did a great job keeping it from icing over.   My truck, on the other hand, had a bunch of ice in it.  Drove out of it and made it all the way through Maryland and down to a truck stop in Jane Lew, West Virginia for the night.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Was at the shop first thing this morning for my inspection.  It went pretty good.  Had a few minor things to correct.  Went to a repair shop and had them all taken care of.  While there had routine maintenance done on the truck too.  When that was done went back to the Daily shop and finished paperwork there and picked up a few more chains and binders too.  A very productive day.  My next load in at the Port of Baltimore in Dundalk, Maryland.  Drove down to the TA truck stop in Baltimore for the night.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Left Mebane, NC this morning at sun up and drove up to Glen Jean, WV.  They are building a HUGE Boy Scout Camp there.  It is a massive project.  Delivered the excavator.  After that drove up to Carlisle, PA to the "home office".  My truck is due for it's annual DOT inspection that has to be done at the Carlisle shop.  So I'll have that done first thing tomorrow.  Damn!!!  it's cold up here!!!!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Nice long weekend.  Could not deliver yesterday because of the holiday so I slept in.  Today drove in to Fort Pickett Military Base in Virginia.  Delivered the dozer and headed off for my next load in Raleigh, NC.
Loaded a Caterpillar 316 Wheel Excavator.  Of course it didn't start to rain until they brought the machine over to load.  Yup, I was soaked to the skin!!  This thing is going to a job site at a boy scout place in West Virginia.

Got on the road but didn't get very far.  Stopped for the night and a good, long, hot shower at the Petro in Mebane, NC.