Friday, August 3, 2018

Friday, August 3, 2018

Left a half hour after sunrise this morning and  drove the rest of the way to the Port in Savannah, GA.  Delivered the dump truck.  Don't have another load yet so I went home to Jacksonville, Florida for the weekend.

ALSO.....

1 month till....


Thursday, August 2, 2018

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Put all the lights on my load and my reflective "Oversize Load" banners for night traveling.  




Left Oak Grove, KY at about 1:45 CDT.  No problems with traffic through Nashville that early in the morning.  Got to Chattanooga and there was a wreck involving two semi trucks and 4 or 5 cars.  Fortunately it was on the other side.  Traffic on that side was at a stand still.  I-24 was totally shut down.  Our side was moving fine!!!  Got to the Tennessee / Georgia state line a bit early, which was just fine because we beat all the curfews.  I couldn't cross into Georgia until a half hour after sunrise.   When I was legally able to move again I left.  Didn't need my pilot escort car in Georgia so she left.  Atlanta was no fun.  Lots of bumper to bumper traffic.  The rain didn't help either.  Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Pulaski, Georgia.  I'll deliver tomorrow.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

My Kentucky and Tennessee escort pilot car met me here at Mt. Vernon this morning and we left at sunrise in some fog.  Fortunately it cleared fairly quickly.  Didn't have my Tennessee permit so we had to stop at the Flying J truck stop just north of the Tennessee State line in Oak Grove, Kentucky to wait for it.  It arrived this afternoon but not in time for us to make the Nashville curfew so we are going to get some sleep now and leave here at about 1:30 tomorrow morning to beat the Nashville and Chattanooga curfews.


Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Went down to Decatur first thing this morning.  Got there before they opened.  Sat there all morning.  They finally started loading me at 1 pm CDT.  Loaded a Caterpillar 772G Dump Truck that is going to the Port in Savannah, Georgia.  Of course it started to rain when they started to load me.



Left there and drove down to the TA truck stop in Mt. Vernon, Illinois for the night.