Saturday, March 6, 2021

 Easy day. Drove to the Flying J truck stop in Ruther Glen, Virginia.  Will be here until Monday morning.

Friday, March 5, 2021

 Left at 3 am this morning and drove to Savannah, Georgia and loaded a Terex TA300 Dump Truck that is going up to Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Got out of there a little after 9 am.  Drove to the Petro truck stop in Kenly, North Carolina for the night.  Went inside to get my dinner, picked it up and when I got to the truck found that of the 2 items I ordered they got them both wrong.  Had to go back in and try again. After dinner, I did three loads of laundry.  Then replaced a couple flags.  While replacing the flags, found two lights on my trailer were out.  My tag light was an easy fix.  The other had a corroded plug so that had to be replaced as well.  Once all that was done I hit the sack.  I'll start at sunrise tomorrow morning.  Good night.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

 Was up and at it again at 1 am.  Just west of Knoxville I got a flat on one of my trailer tires.  I was able to get it to the Petro truck stop in Knoxville.  Got the tire fixed and was back on the road again.  Drove the rest of the way to Charlotte, NC and delivered the excavator.  Then hightailed it out of there and down to the Flying J truck stop in Rock Hill, SC for the night.  Got there with only 10 minutes left on my "electronic baby sitter".   I load tomorrow morning in Savannah, GA.  Good night.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

 As soon as my 10 hours were up I left and drove the rest of the way to Jonesboro, Arkansas.  Loaded a Caterpillar 330FL Excavator that is going to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Left there and drove to the TA truck stop in Denmark, Tennessee.  Once again, as soon as my 10 hours are up I'll be outa here.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

 As soon as my 10 hours were up I left.  Drove to Cushing, Oklahoma.  Went to a tank farm that they were expanding.  This place was a very difficult place to get into and out of.  On the map, it looked like it was no problem, but in reality, it was a nightmare!!   I have no idea how they got all the materials in there to build everything.  Anyway, I got there right at 6:30 am. Had to wait for the crane to get there.  It arrived at about 9:30.  Then we had to go do their COVID stuff.  After that over to get a safety briefing and vehicle pass.  Once all that stuff was done the crane went in and got set up.  The area was all the way around back.  Very tight getting in.  Every turn  I had to back up a couple times to make it around the corner. It was like that on all the roads getting in and out too.  Once I got to the crane, they attached the rigging to the genset.  Then waited.  The "safety" guys at the job site didn't like the rigging.  Honestly, I didn't either.  So they disassembled everything and started over.  To make a very long story short, they finally got the correct rigging attached and lifted the genset off and placed it where it will live for the rest of it's life.  All that took over 7 hours. Then I had to back out.  I did and got myself turned around and made my way to the entrance that I went in.  It was the only one.  I tried to get out multiple times but couldn't make it around the corner.  They had to remove a pole so I could get out.  To make another very long story short, it took an hour to get to a main road.  At one point I had to back up 3/4 mile because the road was closed and nowhere to turn around.  By the time I got down to I-40, I had run out of hours.  Had to go on "Personal Conveyance" to get to the closest truck stop.  I stopped at the Love's truck stop in Seminole, Oklahoma.  This place was so small.  It only had about 6 truck parking places. I was lucky to get one.  Wiggled my way into it and settled in for my 10 hours.  As soon as they are up, I'm outa here!!  Heading to Jonesboro, Arkansas to load in the morning.

Monday, March 1, 2021

 Went the rest of the way into Corpus Christi this morning and delivered the machine.  Next load was over in Seguin, TX.  Went over there and loaded a Caterpillar Genset that is going up to Cushing, Oklahoma.

Left there and hit the road.  Saw a 3 car crash happen right in front of me in Austin.  Then passed another crash south of Waco.  Then in Waco passed a rollover that was blocking 2 of the 3 lanes.  Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Hillsboro, Texas.  Will get started again as soon as my 10 hours are up.  Good night.