Saturday, November 14, 2020

 As soon as my 10 hours was up, I left.  Almost hit a deer in South Dakota.  Drove up to the Petro truck stop in Fargo, North Dakota.  I stopped along the way at Wal Mart.  I was down to my last 8 cans of Mt. Dew.  Thats not good!!!!  But I'm all stocked up now.  Crisis averted!!!   I'll be here until Monday morning.

Friday, November 13, 2020

 Left a half-hour before sunrise this morning.  Drove to the Caterpillar dealer in Rapid City, South Dakota and delivered the wheel loader.  My next load is in Fargo, North Dakota Monday morning.  I started off that way.  Stopped for the night at the Pilot truck stop in Murdo, South Dakota.  As soon as my 10 hours is up, I'll be back on the road to Fargo, don't ya know!!

Thursday, November 12, 2020

 Couldn't leave when I wanted to this morning.  Had to time it so that I didn't get to Wichita, Kansas before 9 am.  I think I did pretty good.  I entered Wichita at 9:03 am.  Other than that, nothing interesting today.  Drove to a small truck stop in Ansley, Nebraska for the night.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

 Stopped on the scale this morning shortly after I got started.  Couldn't find one yesterday.  My weights were wrong so I had to move the machine.  Then scaled again.  Still off.  Moved the machine again.  This time it was fine.  The rest of the day was pretty uneventful.  No traffic issues in Fort Worth or Oklahoma City!  Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Billings, Oklahoma.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

 Late this morning I got my next load.  I drove down to the Port of Galveston and loaded a Caterpillar 966M Wheel Loader that is going to Rapid City, South Dakota.

While I was there I helped another driver.  He had not loaded a Motor Grader before.  They can be very intimidating.  The one he had was a very large one.  I loaded it for him.  He was very grateful.  

Once I finished securing my machine, I left.  Drove to a small truck stop in Normangee, Texas for the night.

Monday, November 9, 2020

 Left a little before sunrise this morning and drove the rest of the way to Corpus Cristi.  About 6 miles from delivery, while still on I-37, a trailer tire blew.  I pulled over to the side of the Interstate and determined that I could continue on without causing any further damage.  I drove slowly to the oil refinery where I was delivering.  While waiting for them to get set up in there, I had the tire guy come out to change both tires on the trailer.  He arrived and pulled the first tire off.  It was the outside tire. It was the one that did not blow.  It just had some really bad wear and needed replacing.

He was unable to get the inside tire, the blown tire, off.  Did everything possible to do there, but nothing worked.

I had him put it all back together and said I would go to his shop after they unloaded me.  Shortly after putting it back on, I went in to unload.  That only took a few minutes and I was on my way to the tire shop.

He used a forklift with a chain from the forklift around the tire to pull it off.   It put up quite a fight.  After several attempts to get it off, it finally came off.  

Two new tires were put on and I was out of there.  Don't have another load yet so I drove back to Houston to the Daily terminal to wait. 

Sunday, November 8, 2020

 Nothing exciting today.  Drove down to a truck stop in Refugio, Texas until tomorrow morning.