Friday, December 5, 2014

This morning drove down to Shady Grove, PA and loaded a Grove 4409 Industrial Crane that is going for a short ride down to Dulles, Virginia.

Left there and drove down to Dulles and delivered the crane.  Don't have another load yet so I went up to the TA truck stop in Jessup, Maryland for the rest of the weekend.

North of Washington DC on I-95, check out this idiot.  In the video you will see 3 dark SUV's in front of me.  Watch the fool in the far right lane.  He flies up behind a car and has to hit the brakes hard to keep from hitting it. Then jumps over into the middle lane.  Then he decides he want to get in front of me so he cuts me off and, with a nice hand gesture, tells me that I'm number 1.  He also keeps stepping on his breaks.  Notice that the left lane is totally open but he chooses not to use it.  IDIOT!!!!

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Well, got a lot done while I was here in Carlisle.  

Yesterday got, and installed an Electronic Log Book.  I am trial testing the unit for Daily.  I'm the first one to have one.  There will be another driver testing one too.  By 2017 these things will be required by law so Daily wants to be ahead of the game and find a model that works best for us. I will be evaluating this thing for a while.  If you want to learn about the model I'm evaluating click here and it will take you to the web page,

Today I went over to Kenworth and had a transmission problem fixed.  Then went to Walmart and restocked a few things.  Tomorrow morning I'll go down to Shady Grove, PA and load a small crane.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Left Columbus, Ohio just before sunrise this morning in freezing rain.  Fortunately it only lasted about 45 minutes then it cleared up for a while.  Shortly after I got into Pennsylvania I started seeing a lot of road department trucks with plows on, and beds full of road salt.  

I had not heard the weather report but after seeing that I knew they were expecting something.  Not too long after that the snow started.

And the weather got worse.  A lot worse.

And the trucks got busy.

Really?  Ya think I need a sign to tell me that??

Here is a short video of how bad it got.

After a while it slowly got better.  It turned back into rain.  Stayed that way the rest of the day.

Made it all the way in to Lebanon, PA and delivered the dump truck.  Didn't think I was going to get there in time, but I just barely made it!!   Then went over to the "home office" in Carlisle, PA for a couple days.  By the time I got to Carlisle the rain had changed to freezing rain.  Rough day today.  I'm exhausted!!  Gonna sleep well tonight!!

Monday, December 1, 2014

Left the Daily yard just before sunrise this morning.  Nice day on the road.  Drove to the north bound rest area on I-71 just north of Columbus, Ohio for the night.