Saturday, September 7, 2013

While looking my permit checking the route that Texas had set for me, realized real fast that they had sent me WAY off in the wrong direction.  They had me ending up north of Dallas half way to Oklahoma.  Where I'm really going is about half way between Waco and  Austin. Since it was Saturday and no way to fix the permit I just went anyway and took a route mostly off the interstate highway hoping that I didn't get caught by the cops.

Left Texarkana just before sunrise.  Had no problems at all.  Stopped for the rest of the weekend at a Super 8 hotel in Temple, TX.  Deliver a couple miles from here Monday morning.

This is going to be a long season!!  Gators were pathetic!!!

Final

#12 Florida

(1-1, 0-0 SEC)

Miami (FL)

(2-0, 0-0 ACC)

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		1	2	3	4		T
FLA		6	0	3	7		16
MIA		14	0	0	7		21

Friday, September 6, 2013

Left Pendelton, KY just before sunrise.  Great day driving but other problems clouded the day.  Got stuck for a slight delay  in bumper to bumper traffic because of a double fatality crash.  A car crossed the median and slammed into a semi truck head on.  There was very little of the car left.  My roof A/C unit compressor seized up last night so I have no A/C when I'm parked.  That's not a good thing where I'm going.  A rock got kicked up and broke my windshield.  

Then my new light bar quit rotating.  Made an appointment to get the A/C fixed Monday afternoon after I deliver.  Stopped for the night, after driving 694 miles, at a Super 8 hotel in Texarkana, Texas.  The first room I was given was all the way at the opposite end of the hotel from where I parked.  The A/C in the room didn't work very well so I had to go back and get a different room.  Then I fixed my light bar, took a shower, ordered a pizza, and got in bed.  Just heard the local weather.  It was 101 today.  

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Got on the road just before sunrise.  Went in to Columbus and delivered the machine.   After that drove up to New Philadelphia, Ohio and loaded a Gradall XL4300 that is going down to Belton, Texas.

Left there and drove down to the Pilot truck stop in Pendelton, Kentucky for the night.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Guess what day it is??!!??  

I love that commercial!!

Got on the road this morning and drove up to a rest area in Ohio on I-71 at mile marker 67.  I'm about an hour from delivery.  

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Well it is time to go back to work.  Drove up to Brunswick, GA and loaded a Wirtgen WR240I Recycler.  This thing was made in Germany.  It, basically, is a huge 65,000 pound rototiller.  What made it interesting to load was that it is all computerized and everything was written in German.  It steers with a steering wheel and moves forward and backward with a joystick and a trigger - no foot peddles.  The cab can slide left and right.  It is going to Columbus, Ohio.

Left there and drove up to Cartersville, Georgia for the night.