Saturday, July 8, 2017

Drove over to the TA truck stop in Maybrook, New York.  Will be here until Monday morning.

Friday, July 7, 2017

Got started a half hour before sunrise this morning.  The Newburgh-Beacon Bridge that goes over the Hudson River in New York only allows oversize loads across at 10:30 am and 2 pm Monday thru Friday.  No weekend crossings.  On top of that they charge $100 PLUS the bridge toll to cross it.  I was unable to make the 2 pm crossing today so I can't cross until Monday.  How STUPID!!!!  More ridiculous government restrictions!!!!  Since I was two hours short of making it I decided to stop at the Petro truck stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania for the night.  Tomorrow morning I'll go the rest of the way to the TA truck stop close to the bridge for the rest of the weekend.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Left a half hour before sunrise this morning and stopped at the first scale I came to.  I totally guessed wrong on placement of the crane.  I was over 4000 pounds overweight on my trailer axles.  SO, I had to move the machine.  Three hours later it was done.  Scaled again and it was perfect.

Left there but didn't get anywhere near as far as I wanted to today.  Stopped for the night at the Love's truck stop in Burbank, Ohio.  I'm exhausted!!  My back hurts and I'm going to sleep.  Good night !!!!!!

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Went in to Chicago first thing this morning to load a Liebherr HS855 Crane.  Started off OK, but it went down hill from there.  Put the crane on the trailer but when it came time to take off  the tracks, they didn't have the correct crane rigging.  Had to wait for that to get there.  Then a bunch of bolts would not come off so they had to cut them off with a torch.  I finally got it all loaded and secured and out of there at 3:30 this afternoon.  Needless to say, I didn't get very far.  Stopped for the night at a convenience store with a few  truck parking places in Boswell, Indiana.

This thing is VERY top heavy and heavy.  Have not passed a scale so I have no idea how heavy I am.  Will do that tomorrow.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Got started real early again.  Drove up to the Petro in Gary, Indiana.  Will be here until Monday morning.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

My next load is Wednesday in Chicago.  So, in order to avoid a lot of heavy holiday traffic, especially going around Atlanta, I left this morning. Had absolutely no traffic issues today.  Drove up to the Flying J truck stop in Oak Grove, Kentucky for the night.