Saturday, April 5, 2014

Drove 88 miles to Hagerstown, MD to the Pilot truck stop.  Will be here until Monday morning.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Left Whitestown, IN just before sunrise.  Nice easy relaxing day.  Nothing special.  Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Grantsville, Maryland.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Left Gary, IN just before sunrise in the pouring rain and drove in to Naperville, Illinois and delivered the excavator.  Yes, it was still pouring rain and I got soaked.  Left there and drove over to Aroura, IL and loaded a Caterpillar 816F2 Compactor.  It is going to the Port of Baltimore in Dundalk, MD.  Fortunately, by the time I finished securing it the rain stopped. Go figure!!

Left there and drove to the TA truck stop in Whitestown, Indiana for the night.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Last night on my way into the truck stop I noticed that my brakes weren't working as well as they should and I used a LOT of air when applying the breaks.  I had a pretty good idea what the problem was.  I parked for the night and went to bed.  This morning I got up and investigated the problem.  It was just as I thought.  The air hose that was just replaced was still rubbing the drive shaft.  They had replaced the hose but didn't fix the problem.  The hose was worn through.  I taped up the leak as best as I could and zip tied the hose away from the drive shaft.  There was a TA truck stop 20 miles up the road so I went up there and got it repaired again.  This time the correct way.  It was covered under warranty so all it cost me was time.  After they finished I drove up to the Petro truck stop in Gary, Indiana for the night.  I'll deliver and reload in the morning.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Left Kernersville at sunrise this morning.  Very nice day on the road.  Nothing exciting at all.  Stopped for the night at the Love's Truck Stop in Memphis, Indiana.  

Monday, March 31, 2014

Hit the road this morning and drove in to Columbia, South Carolina and delivered the wheel loader.  Here is the easy way to unload.  (Not me driving)

Next load was up in Kernersville, North Carolina.  Drove up there and loaded a John Deere 250GL Excavator that is going to Naperville, Illinois.

My North Carolina permit does not start until tomorrow morning so I parked at John Deere for the night.