Friday, March 1, 2019

Left this morning at sunrise.  Drove to Sulphur, Louisiana and delivered the excavator.  After that I sent my dispatcher an email telling him I was empty and asked if I should head to Victoria, Texas.  Then I started toward Victoria.  I made it a little past Beaumont, Texas when he finally replied to my email.  He said not to go to Victoria, and that he didn't have anything in Texas at the moment.  I turned around and went to the Petro truck stop in Beaumont, Texas to wait.  Sent him an email telling him where I was.  So I'll be here for the weekend. 

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Left a half hour before sunrise in the rain.  It cleared up by the time I got to Birmingham.  Lots of bumper to bumper traffic going around Birmingham.  Once that cleared up made it to just past Tuscaloosa.  That is where things got real bad.  A tractor trailer cattle hauler, full of cattle, rolled over at mm 58.  The driver was killed.  They had the Interstate closed in both directions because of the crash and there were cattle loose all around the scene.  A big mess.  They were routing south bound traffic off at exit 62.  Fortunately I was there early enough to get stopped three miles from exit 62.  It took three hours to go those three miles!!!!  Once I got off at the exit it didn't take long to follow the detour back onto the interstate at exit 52.  That is where they were routing the north bound traffic off.  By that time the back up was past Tuscaloosa, over 20 miles.  Needless to say, I didn't get as far as I wanted today.  Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Slidell, Louisiana.  Thunderstorms here.  I just checked the road conditions back where the crash was.  The south bound side of the interstate is still closed. I went through there about noon.  Here is a screen shot of it now, 5:03 pm CST.  

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Left at sunrise this morning.  Nothing exciting or interesting today, just a good day on the road.  Stopped for the night at the Petro truck stop in Gadsden, Alabama.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

This morning hooked up to my trailer to go and lo and behold I had a light out.  Had to put it in the shop for it to be fixed.  When that was done I drove about 3 miles down the road to the Keen yard and loaded a Link Belt 490X4 Excavator that is going down to Sulphur, Louisianna. 

Left there and drove down to the Flying J truck stop at the West Virginia / Virginia state line.  Waited there an hour and a half for my Virginia permit to come in.  Then I drove to the Petro truck stop in Raphine, Virginia for the night.

Monday, February 25, 2019

This morning I checked out of the hotel and took my rental car back. I got lucky with the car.  Had a brand new Cadillac.  It was very nice.

Got my next load, but it doesn't load until tomorrow.  So I took a nap.  I like to sleep.  :)