Friday, August 23, 2013

Drove in to St. Matthews, SC this morning and delivered the tractor.  After that drove home.  Will be here for a week.  Nice to be home!!

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Got started just before sun up this morning. It feels good to be actually covering ground instead of shuttle runs!!  Started off in Illinois.  Drove through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and finally stopped for the night at a truck stop in Inman, South Carolina.  682 miles today.  Not too shabby!!

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Went over to Davenport first thing this morning and delivered the steel roller.  Then turned around and went back and picked up another one.

After delivering that one in Davenport I drove up to Waterloo and loaded a John Deere 8285 Tractor that is going to St. Matthews, South Carolina.

Remember back in May I posted a photo of the lock and dam underwater?  If not, here it is to refresh your memory.

Went by it again today.  It is back above of the water again.  This is the Illinois River on I-474 in Peoria, Illinois.

Drove to a truck stop in LeRoy, Illinois for the night.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

This afternoon went over to the Alcoa Aluminum plant here in Bettendorf.  They are doing a $300,000,000 demolition and expansion of a section of the plant in order to make aluminum bumpers for the Ford F-150 pick up truck.  Loaded a 60,000 pound steel roller that is going to a recycling place in Davenport, IA. 

Then went back to the Daily yard in Bettendorf for the night.  Have an 8 am crane appointment tomorrow morning in Davenport to unload.  After  that I'll go back and get another one.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Spent all of yesterday and all of today having my permanent light bar installed.  I ordered it months ago and it has been waiting for me to get back to the Daily Bettendorf terminal.  It was installed by one of the mechanic there.  He also installs lights on cop cars and fire trucks on his days off.  He did a marvelous job!!  Better than my highest expectations.  It is exactly what I wanted and it looks fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!  

The Bettendorf terminal is another dust bowl so you can't tell that the truck was even washed!!  Oh well.

After it was finally finished I went out to the Iowa 80 truck stop.  Don't have another load yet so this is a very good place to wait for one.