Saturday, May 19, 2018

Left a half hour before sunrise this morning.  Nothing exciting today.  Stopped for the night at the Pilot truck stop in Monteagle, Tennessee.  Actually a dirt lot next to the Pilot.  The Pilot was full.  Gee, what a surprise!!

Friday, May 18, 2018

Good day on the road.  Drove to the TA truck stop in Bloomington, Illinois.  Lots of detours in Illinois. Have a long one tomorrow morning, that's why I stopped here for the night.  Also doing 2 loads of laundry while I'm here.  I almost forgot, here is my scale ticket.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Drove about 40 miles north to Deerbrook, Wisconsin first thing this morning to load a Caterpillar MH3037 Material Handler that is going to Springfield, Georgia. Got there at about 6:15 CDT.  Had to teach myself how to operate it.  Loaded it on the trailer by raising the machine with the outriggers and, using the boom arm on the machine, pushed the trailer under it.  That took a while.  Secured it to the trailer.  Fortunately they had a truck scale on site.  I went over and scaled.  It was almost right on the money, but it was too high.  

Called the "home office" in Carlisle and explained the problem.  They sent me a diagram showing how it should be loaded.  It didn't tell me how to do it, just showed me what it should look like.  That was a huge help.  So I did what the diagram showed but it messed up the weight so I had to move the machine.  Had to move the machine a total of four times before I got it as close to right as it's gonna get.  It took all day to do this.

This thing is a lot bigger and heavier than it looks.  I'll get a Cat Scale weight tomorrow. When I finally left there at 2:30 CDT I was totally exhausted.  I went back to the truck stop that I was at last night, took a very l-o-n-g hot shower, and had dinner.  I ache all over, especially my back.  Can hardly walk.  Going to sleep. Good night.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Left this morning a half hour before sunrise.  Drove up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and delivered the wheel loader.  I load tomorrow morning in Deerbrook, Wisconsin.  I headed in that direction.  Stopped for the night at a nice little truck stop in Whittenberg, WI.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Had a good day on the road today except I had to wait almost two hours for my Illinois permit.  Even so, I still drove 503 miles today.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in Effingham, Illinois.

Monday, May 14, 2018

Went over to the Port of Savannah, GA first thing this morning and loaded a Caterpillar 980M Wheel Loader that is going up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Took forever to load.  Had a hard time getting it centered on the trailer.  Not as easy as it sounds!!!  Also helped another Daily driver load his machine.  He had not loaded a large machine before and needed assistance.  He had only had his trailer for about a week.

 Left there and drove to the TA truck stop in Cartersville, Georgia for the night.  I'm exhausted!!!! Good night.

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Left this morning and drove up to the TA truck stop in Richmond Hill, Georgia.  Stopped on the way and had routine maintenance done on the truck and trailer.  Load in the morning at the Port of Savannah.