Saturday, March 24, 2018

Left a half hour before sunrise this morning.  Very nice uneventful day on the road.  Stopped for the rest of the weekend at the Petro truck stop in McCalla, Alabama.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Drove in to the Port of Galveston first thing this morning and loaded a Caterpillar 745 Dump Truck that is going to Austell, Georgia.  

Finished getting the thing secured and went to get my paperwork and check out.  Got to the door at 12:01 CDT.  They had gone to lunch.  So I sat there and waited. Total waste of time!!!! When they came back, I checked out and left.  Didn't go very far.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in Beaumont, Texas.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Left a half hour before sunrise this morning.  Drove to the Port in Houston and, of course, I arrived just as they went to lunch.  When they finished their lunch I finally got unloaded.  Then I drove up to the Daily terminal in Houston and got rid of this trailer and got my trailer back.  Tomorrow I load in Galveston, TX.  I'll head down there early in the morning to try to beat rush hour traffic.  

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Left this morning a half hour before sunrise.  Very nice, uneventful day today.  Drove to the Love's truck stop in Domino, Texas for the night. Should be able to deliver tomorrow.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

First thing this morning I was over at Caterpillar to deliver the crate. After that was done I drove down to Decatur, Illinois and loaded a Caterpillar 773F Dump Truck Axle.  It's nickname is a generic term we use for all the different axles that are transported. It is called a "banjo".  I know that this one doesn't look like a banjo, but trust me, some of them really do.  It is going to Houston, Texas to go on a long ocean cruise.

This axle alone weighs over 56,000 pounds (25,401 kg).  You can only imagine how big the rest of the truck is.  Here is a picture of one all put together.

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I left there and drove to the Petro truck stop in Effingham, Illinois for the night.

Monday, March 19, 2018

Drove the rest of the way into West Allis, Wisconsin and delivered the material handler.  From there I drove to a Caterpillar parts manufacturing plant in South Milwaukee.  Loaded a crate with a hoist gear (whatever that is) in it.  It is going to the Caterpillar plant in Morton, Illinois.  

Left there and drove to the Daily yard in Morton, Illinois for the night.  Deliver just across the Interstate highway from here in the morning.

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Went up to the Petro truck stop in Rochelle, Illinois for the rest of the day.