Saturday, September 9, 2017

The hotel I was in was not the best so this morning I changed hotels to a much better one.  Now it's time to settle in for a weekend of football!!

Friday, September 8, 2017

We left this morning at sunrise.  At the Arkansas / Texas state line in Texarkana my escort dropped off.  I didn't need him in Texas.  I continued on to a lime query in Cleburne, TX.  They were not ready for the machine to arrive.  There was no crane there.  After a few phone calls and a lot of waiting, they said that they would not be able to unload me until Tuesday.  So the load that I was supposed to load tomorrow won't happen.  I dropped my trailer there and drove into the city of Cleburne and got a hotel room.  Will be here until at least Monday, but most likely Tuesday.

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Timed it perfectly this morning and arrived at the Missouri / Illinois line right at 9 am when the St. Louis curfew ended.  My escort was there waiting for me and off we went.  Had a very good day on the road.  Stopped at the Petro truck stop in North Little Rock, Arkansas to wait for the Little Rock curfew to end at 6 pm.  Then continued on to a truck stop in Glen Rose, Arkansas for the night.

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Went to the Caterpillar plant in Montgomery, Illinois first thing this morning.  My load was not going to be ready until 9 am, so I waited.  At 10 am I backed inside the building and loaded a Caterpillar 990 Wheel loader that is going to Cleburne, Texas. 

This is the third largest wheel loader that they build at this plant.  There are two other trucks waiting to get loaded with the rest of this machine's parts.  Left there and drove to the TA truck stop in Troy, Illinois for the night.  Will meet my escort car tomorrow morning at the Illinois / Missouri state line at 9 am when the St. Louis curfew is over.