Saturday, January 20, 2018

Left this morning and drove up to the Petro truck stop in Gary, Indiana.  On the way Indiana sent me a little out of the way and I went past Purdue University. Other than that, another uneventful and short day on the road.  I like uneventful.

Friday, January 19, 2018

Very uneventful day today.  All I did was drive to the Pilot truck stop in Mount Comfort, Indiana.  Tomorrow will be a short day.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Went down the road a bit and loaded a Link Belt 350 Excavator that is going to Chicago, Illinois.  While loading, the machine slid sideways on the icy blocks and fell off.  Had to back it off and start over again.  Got it up there and chained down. She aint goin' nowhere!!

Left there and drove up to the TA truck stop in Barkeyville, Pennsylvania for the night.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

This morning both my trailer and truck went in the shop to have some work done.  They finished up this afternoon, but not early enough for me to go over and load.  I'll go over and load in the morning.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Left very early this morning and drove the rest of the way to Londonderry, New Hampshire and delivered the machine. Then started off for Carlisle, PA.  It was sunny when I left New Hampshire but that soon changed to overcast.  Made it all the way back to just west of the Hudson River in New York before it started to snow.  By the time I got to Scranton, PA it was coming down hard.  Fortunately up here they know how to keep the roads open.  They were ding a very good job with the salt trucks and plows.  I made it all the way back to the "home office" in Carlisle, PA.  About 4 inches (10 cm) so far and still snowing hard.  556 miles (895 km) today and I'm tired.  Good night.

Monday, January 15, 2018

Started off today in snow flurries.  Drove over to the Newburgh / Beacon Bridge that goes over the Hudson River on I-84 in New York.  Oversize permit loads can only cross that bridge at 10:30 am or 2 pm.  They close the road to other traffic and escort all of us over the bridge at about 25 mph.  Then they re-open the bridge.  They also charge us $100 plus the toll for the bridge.  I got there early and waited about an hour and a half .  Finally made it across the bridge.  Had to stop very early this afternoon because I can't go into New Hampshire on a holiday.  So I pulled into a very crappy Pilot truck stop in Sturbridge, Massachusetts for the night.  I can run at night in Massachusetts so I will start very early tomorrow.  Snow storm on the way.  They say it shouldn't start snowing until tomorrow afternoon.  Hope I can get in, deliver, and out before it gets too bad.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Went to the Daily Express's annual banquet last night.  Daily provides us with a hotel room for the night.  It was a pretty good event.  Food was good.  Wasn't real happy with the hotel room this year.  After all the speeches from the "big wigs" they had drawings for the door prizes.  They always have lots of very good door prizes.  Just about everyone gets one.  I had my eye on a pair of heavy shackles. I got lucky and my number was one of the first ones drawn so I got the shackles I wanted.  I know it doesn't look like much, but each one has a working load limit of 24,000 pounds.  Exactly what I wanted.  They are about $50 each.

This morning I checked out of the hotel real early, went back to the Daily yard and picked up my trailer.  At sunrise I left and headed toward New York.  Can't go into NY until tomorrow so I stopped at a truck stop on I-84 in Sterling, PA for the rest of the day.