Saturday, March 9, 2019

Left at sunrise this morning.  No problems through Baton Rouge.  That wasn't the case in Houston.  Had to take a detour around I-10 in Baytown due to the barge hitting the bridge last week.  All overweight vehicles must take that detour.   It will be a while before that is fixed.  Then when I got to Houston they had shut down I-610 at I-45.  What a mess!!!!!!  The first map below is a photo of my permit route.  The second map is the route I took because of I-610 being closed.

Permit Route

Took I-45 back up to I-10.  Then west to Loop 6, and then south to I-69 to get back to my permit route.

Actual Route Because of Detour

Most of all that was bumper to bumper.  It took a couple hours to get past all that.  The last part on Loop 6 going south from I-10 to I-69 in Sugar Land was traffic light after traffic light all the way down.  I got at least 3/4 of them red.  Some of them I had to stop for twice.  UGGGG!!!!!!  Very aggravating!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Finally made it through all that mess and continued on down toward Corpus Cristi.  Stopped for the rest of the weekend at a new travel center in Refugio, Texas.  Nice place.

Just in case you forgot, or didn't know, you can click on any photo to enlarge them for easier viewing.

 

Friday, March 8, 2019

Left a half hour after sunrise this morning.  Another uneventful day.  I passed a small crash on the other side of the Interstate.  Not really sure what happened but there was damage to the front of the semi truck and a van laying on it's side.  The wierd thing about it was that there was about 10 cop cars there.  That is very unusual to see that many at a simple crash.  Maybe there was something else going on.  Hmmmm....we will never know.

Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Livingston, Louisiana.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Left at sunrise this morning. Had a couple construction detours in South Carolina. Here is the first one just inside the State.  Not too bad, very short.

Here is the second one.  This one took a while.  Initially got off on a frontage road that ran right next to the Interstate.  Then it seperated.

The rest of the day went pretty smooth.  Made it around Atlanta with very little traffic problems.  Stopped for the night at the Pilot truck stop in Newnan, Georgia.  Will be starting a half hour after sunrise tomorrow. I'll get an extra half hour of sleep.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Left very early this morning and arrived at Caterpillar in Clayton, North Carolina at 6:30 am. and delivered the jeep.

My next load is up in Kernersville, North Caroilina.  I headed that way.  Atlanta rush hour traffic was a mess.  I took a bunch of back roads to get around it.  Had to get to Kernersville before 3 pm.  They do not load after 3.  I made it with 15 minutes to spare!!!  Loaded a John Deere 470G Excavator that is going to Corpus Cristi, Texas.

By the time I got it secured to the trailer it was too late to go anywhere plus I was out of hours.  I parked there at the John Deere plant for the night.  I'll leave at sunrse in the morning.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Left Houston at midnight.  It is great leaving at that hour.  No traffic to speak of.  Drove pretty much non stop for 650 miles (1046 km) to the Petro truck stop in Shorter, Alabama.  That is just east of Montgomery.  Was done with everything and lunch before noon. 

Monday, March 4, 2019

No loads yet.  I went over to the Daily yard in Houston.  Had a couple trailer lights shorting out that I had fixed when I got there.  This afternoon They asked me to take a jeep to Griffin, Georgia.  Loaded it on my trailer and chained it down. 

Then had some real good Texas BBQ ribs!!  I'll leave here in the middle of the night tonight.