Saturday, November 16, 2019

Gators did good today!!

Didn't get a lot done yesterday because of the weather.  But so far a lot got done.  There is still more to do tomorrow.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

As soon as my 10 hours was up I left.  That was 3:15 am EST.  Drove to the Daily terminal in Jacksonville, FL.  Then was first in line at the Tag Office.  Got that fixed.  When our mechanic came in I had some problems fixed on the trailer.  There were quite a few.  Here are a few photos of some of them.

I finished putting together my new wide load mirrors.

Went past the Budweiser plant and saw the Budweiser Clydesdale horses were there.

The three trucks they ride in

Portable Stable

Getting a bath

Still more work to do on the trailer tomorrow - weather permitting.  Supposed to rain all day tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Left at sunrise this morning and drove the rest of the way to Augusta, Georgia and delivered the crane to a job site where they are just getting started building a Top Golf Driving Range.  After that I started toward Jacksonville, Florida because I have to go to the DMV to fix an issue with my CDL.  I tried to fix it online but it wouldn't let me.  So I have to physically go there for them to do the exact same thing I tried to do online.  Stupid!!!  That's Government.  Stopped for the night at the TA in Richmond Hill, GA.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Drove to Glen Rock, PA.  It was just inside PA over the MD state line.  The place was very tight getting in and even more so getting out.  I'll try to illustrate it as best as I can. Here are satellite views and street views from Google Maps of the area.

Here is how I had to get in.  Had to go past the road, turn around and come back.  in order to make the turn.  The "X" shows where I loaded the machine.

Once I got in I had to turn into that driveway and back across the street to where the "X" is.

Here is what I loaded.  A crane that is going to Augusta, Georgia.

Getting out was VERY difficult.  I had to go out to the intersection, turn right, then back around into the road across from where I came out, then turn right to get out again.

Here is some more views of the intersection.  The semi trailer was there and so was the car parked on the street.  That added some more fun to the move.

What the photos don't show is that the road was raised along the center so that as I was going across the road the trailer was bottoming out and sliding on the pavement.  It was quite a challenge.  Fortunately the rain had stopped and held off throughout all that.  It took a little bit of time, but I made it and was on my way.  The rain started back up again.  Had no problems going around Baltimore.  A little slow down going around Washington DC.  But south of DC there was an eight mile back up caused by a wreck.  

Took about an hour to get past it.  Just north of Richmond the rain changed to snow.  Heavy, wet snow.  It stuck to the grass, but not the roads.  Continued to snow hard all the way around Richmond on the bypass.  About 10 miles north of North Carolina the snow started to change back to rain.  About 30 miles in NC it was all rain.  Continued on down to the Petro truck stop in Kenly, North Carolina for the night.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Got my new (to me) trailer set up today. Had the shop install 10 extra "D" rings on it.  

Other than that, didn't do much else.  The weather is supposed to get pretty bad tonight, rain then snow.   I'm not sure if I'll be loading tomorrow.  Just have to wait and see.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Gators rolled over Vanderbilt.

But the game of the season was just that.  What a great game.  Best game I've seen in a long time!!!!! That was a lot of fun!!!!!!!

Today I cleaned the cab and one of my compartments.  Replaced a bunch of old orange flags with new ones too.  Also put on a new bracket for wide load mirrors on both the right and left truck mirrors.