Left Mt, Vernon, IL just before sun up this morning.  Drove to the world famous Iowa 80 Truck Stop in Wolcott, Iowa for the rest of the weekend.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Left Mocksville, NC at sun up this morning.  Another nice day on the road.  On I-24 in Kentucky almost to Illinois saw an almost crash.  Have it on video (below). In the video it is extremely difficult to see what is happening out in front of me because it is so far away.  Way out in front is a white Chevy Suburban pulling a long yellow box type trailer.  For some unknown reason it starts to fish tail.  It gets much worse and violently swings back and forth across the road.  It is absolutely amazing that the thing didn't flip over.  Somehow the driver gets control and pulls to the right side of the road and stops, probably to pry the seat from his or her butt!!  As I change lanes to go around you can see the black skid marks left on the road from the trailer swinging back and forth.  You will definitely have to expand the video to full screen to see anything, even at that it will be difficult to see.  Might have to view it a few times to see it.

Aside from that, nothing else exciting today.  Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.  

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Got on the road at sun up and drove down to Kinston, NC and delivered the tractor.  On the way I saw a car crash right in front of me.  This woman, going in the opposite direction from me, went off the side of the road, over corrected and shot back across her two lanes and  into the median. Dirt flying everywhere as she slid sideways into a street sign where she came to a stop.  As I went past I saw the look on her face.  Priceless!!  Her eyes were as big as dinner plates.   Anyway, my next load was back in Kernersville so off I went.  Arrived at Kernersville, NC and loaded another John Deere 250GL Excavator that is going to Davenport, Iowa. 

 Didn't get too far today.  Stopped at a truck stop in Mocksville, NC for the night.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Got on the road just before sun up.  Another good day on the road.  Nothing exciting at all.  Nice relaxing drive.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in Mebane, North Carolina.  Will deliver tomorrow morning sometime.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Much better day today than yesterday!!  Even though I was 19th in line to get loaded this morning I was loaded and on the road by 9:30 local time.  Loaded a John Deere 8335 Tractor and tires.  It is going to Kinston, North Carolina.

Around Cedar Rapids, IA it started to snow. Cedar Rapids, IA has a large Quaker Oates factory there.  Every time I go through there it smells like oatmeal.  Smells really good!   By the time I got to I-80 it was really coming down hard.  Between Iowa City and Davenport it was heavy snow.  But then it stopped. 

 

The rest of the day was nice.  Drove non-stop, 647 miles, from Waterloo down to Oak Grove, Kentucky.  Stopped at the Pilot truck stop for the night.

Monday, March 11, 2013

After a very nice relaxing weekend, the week started off like crap!!  Went over and picked up my trailer first thing this morning and drove over to the place where I was to unload.  I arrived at 8 am local time and was taken to a staging area.  And there I sat.  Eventually there were nine trucks there with me.  We all sat there and watched about a dozen other trucks come in and get unloaded and leave.  No one even had the common decency  to us to explain what they were doing, or anything.  Just left us there to rot all day.  No food, no restroom, nothing.  We were all pretty pissed off!!  GE (General Electric) really SUCKS!!!!  It will be a long time before I do another one of these.  At 4:45 pm local time we were all brought back to where we were to unload.  Sat there until 5:35 when I finally got unloaded. Took only 5 minutes to get unloaded!!!!!

 

Next load is tomorrow morning in Waterloo, Iowa.   I went over to Iowa 80 truck stop for food and fuel and then on to Waterloo.  Stopped for the night at the staging area at the John Deere plant in Waterloo.  I am number 19 in line for loading tomorrow morning.