Saturday, July 22, 2017

Had the truck serviced first thing this morning.  Oil changed, chassis lubed.  You know, that like stuff.  When that was done I left and drove up to the new Petro truck stop in Columbia, South Carolina.  I load Monday not too far from here.  I'm glad I choose this place to spend the weekend.  Instead of the normal Petro restaurant, it has a Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant.  A thousand times better!!!  The food is great.  Had a half rack of ribs for lunch, and a steak for dinner finished off with a warm fudge brownie and vanilla ice cream tonight.  Very popular place.

It also has a bowling alley !!!!!  Staff says there is usually a waiting list to get a lane.

It's been a while since I have been this stuffed!!!   Feels good !!!!

Friday, July 21, 2017

Left this morning and drove in to the port in Savannah, Georgia and delivered the compactor.  Then went to the TA truck stop in Richmond Hills, GA for the night.

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Left a half hour before sunrise this morning.  Nice day on the road, nothing exciting.  Stopped a little early tonight because I was getting low on hours and was worried that I'd get stuck in Atlanta bumper to bumper traffic.  So I stopped at the TA truck stop in Cartersville, Georgia for the night.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

This morning went over to the Caterpillar plant in Montgomery, Illinois to load a Caterpillar 825K Compactor that is going to the port in Savannah, Georgia then on a big boat to Jakarta..  While waiting for them to come load the machine I wathced a couple wheel loaders on the test track.  One of them was a huge one.

On the other track was a smaller one.

He finally came over to load me and we got busy.  Got it loaded.

Left there a little before noon.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in Effingham, Illinois.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

As soon as my 10 hours was up I left.  Drove straight through stopping only once,  Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Morris, Illinois.  They had changed my loading place to Montgomery, Illinois instead of Decatur.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Back to work today.  Got up at 3:30 this morning and went over to the truck wash and got the truck washed.  I also cleaned the mud out of the inside too.  Then to breakfast and then to the laundry mat.  Did six loads of laundry.  After that, back to Daily.  Did a few things there.  Then went to Wal Mart.  Then back to Daily for a nap.  This afternoon I got my next load.  It is in Decatur, Illinois.  I left and drove out to the Flying J truck stop in Smithton, Pa for the night.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

As soon as my 10  hours was up I got out of there and finished driving to the home office in Carlisle, PA.  Taking a few days off.