I left at midnight today. Great day on the road!! Drove 672 miles to the Petro truck stop in Oak Grove, Missouri. Will be here until Monday early morning. But now it's time for some football. The Gators are going to get totally creamed by Georgia today.
Left NJ very early this morning and drove to Shippensburg, PA. Arrived at the Volvo plant perfectly after they opened. Loaded a Volvo L90H Wheel Loader that is going to Topeka, Kansas.
Left there before 8:30 AM !!!! Drove out to the TA truck stop in Hebron, Ohio. They have a Bob Evans Restaurant here. Thought I was going to get a good meal. Boy was I wrong!! I ordered a steak dinner. The steak was smothered in onions and mushrooms. That was ok. I couldn't even see the steak. I pushed all that off to the side and this is what I saw (I cut the meat to see how it was cooked)
The steak wasn't even a quarter-inch thick. It had the chewability of shoe leather. It was horrible!!! I complained to the manager and told him that they should be embarrassed to serve something like that. He didn't charge me for the meal and I left. What a disappointment. I'm going to bed very early so I can start driving again a little after midnight.
Left real early this morning and drove to New Castle, PA and loaded a big hunk of aluminum. Actually, it is a 40,000-pound block of aluminum. It was going to Newark, New Jersey then eventually a big boat headed for Germany.
Left there in great time. Drove to Newark, New Jersey, and delivered it. Great view of the autumn colors in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania all day today. My next load is back in Shippensburg, PA. I started off that way. Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Bloomsbury, New Jersey. I had 0 minutes left on my clock when I stopped. 629 miles today too.
Left this morning a little later than normal. Had to time it so that I didn't get to Allentown before 9 AM. My timing was perfect. Arrived at the job site and the crane was there and all set up - for a nice change. Unloaded pretty quickly. Next load was back in Shippensburg, PA. I drove over there, checked in, and got everything ready to load. The guy came back over to me and said that the machines were not ready today and wouldn't be ready until Friday. I packed everything back up again, pulled out front, and waited for Carlisle to tell me where to go next. About an hour later I got my next load. It is over 3 1/2 hours away in New Castle, PA. Won't be loading that today. Drove to the TA truck stop in Breezewood, PA for the night.
Left Kenly, NC at sunrise this morning. Had a good day on the road. Had a few areas of bumper-to-bumper traffic in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area. Otherwise just heavy traffic in the Washington DC, Baltimore and Harrisburg areas. Heavy crosswind with a top-heavy load is fun!! Stopped for the night at the TA east of Harrisburg, PA. Will deliver in the morning sometime. Can't enter Allentown until after the morning curfew is over at 9. Here is how my truck looks when I'm parked.
Went into downtown Jacksonville first thing this morning and loaded a Caterpillar Generator that is going to Easton, Pennsylvania.
