Saturday, April 27, 2013

Got on the road real early this morning.  No traffic problems anywhere.  Had a bunch of rain from Knoxville, TN to Chattanooga, TN. Looks like the leak repairs done at ARI last week worked.  No water inside!!  After driving 708 miles, stopping only once to eat lunch, I stopped for the rest of the weekend at the Petro truck stop in Gadsden, Alabama.

Friday, April 26, 2013

This morning the crane was there on time and I got unloaded pretty quickly.  Drove back to the Daily yard in Baltimore and got my trailer back.  It had a John Deere 344J wheel loader on it.  It is going to Northport, Alabama.  That is near Tuscaloosa.  Sorry, the first photo is a bit out of focus.

Got on the road right at rush hour on a Friday!!  Terrible timing !  Took forever to get around Baltimore.  I decided not to even try DC traffic.  Stopped for the night at the Maryland Welcome Center on I-95 just north of Washington DC.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Went into the Port of Baltimore first thing this morning and loaded a big box.  I guess it is a compressor of some kind.  It came in from Austria.

Got on the road and drove to the place where it is to be unloaded in the morning in Butler, Pennsylvania.  Dropped the trailer there and went over to the Wal-Mart parking lot for the night.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Yesterday I did not have internet where I stopped for the night so I couldn't update.  So here is what I did....

Went in to Batronville, IL and loaded a Caterpillar 350 Genset that was going to Elkridge, MD.

I was in and out of there in great time!  Got on the road quickly.  Went over a bridge that crosses the Illinois River.  There is a lock and dam there.  It was gone!!  Totally under water!!  Never saw a lock and dam totally submerged before.  That was really cool to see.  The flooding up here is really bad.  Glad it has not flooded any of the roads that I travel.  Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Grantsville, MD.  That is the western end of Maryland in the panhandle.

This morning got on the road real early and drove it to Elkridge, MD (just south of Baltimore) and delivered the genset.  No next load yet so I went to the TA truck stop in Jessup, MD to wait.

Next load is in the morning at the Port of Baltimore, but there is a catch.  Went over to the Daily yard in Baltimore and swapped trailers.  While I'm delivering this load someone here is going to take my trailer over to the port and load my load for after this one.  He will leave it at the Daily yard.  After I deliver I'll go back to Baltimore and swap trailers again getting my trailer back.  Then I'll take the next load.  I spent the night in the Daily yard in Baltimore.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Got a lot of things done to the sleeper today.  They did a great job.  After they finished I drove to the Daily terminal in Morton, Illinois for the night.  Load just south of here tomorrow morning.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Here is where I am.      http://www.legacysleepers.com/index.php

Here is a satellite photo, courtesy of Google, of ARI Legacy Sleepers in Shipshewana, IN.  I have labeled it.  You can see where I parked for the weekend.