Saturday, November 6, 2021

 Only about a half-day today.  Drove to the Petro truck stop in New Paris, Ohio.  Will be here until Monday morning.  Now it is time for some football!!!

 

Sure hope they do better than last week!!!

Friday, November 5, 2021

 As soon as my 10 hours were up I left.  That was at 2 AM.  Drove into the Port of Baltimore and delivered the tractor.  Then went to a different part of the Port and loaded a Caterpillar 320 Excavator that is going to Indianapolis, Indiana.  

Left there and drove out to the Love's truck stop in Cumberland, Maryland.  Had a flat tire on the truck.  Two and a half hours later I had two new tires on the truck.  Stayed there for the night.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

 Left a half-hour before sunrise this morning.  Seemed like it took forever to get out of Ohio, but I finally did.  Met my pilot escort car at the West Virginia line and continued on.  Here is my WV route.

At the Maryland state line he dropped off and I continued on to a truck stop in Grantsville, Maryland.  I'll get started as soon as my 10 hours are up.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

 Left a half-hour before sunrise this morning.  I got to Indiana about 15 minutes ahead of my escort car.  Once he got there we left.  It was mostly back roads today.  Here is my permit route in the Chicagoland area.

And here is my Indiana permit route.

The autumn foliage was really nice today.  Stopped at a Mom & Pop truck stop in Mendon, Ohio for the night.

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

 When the mechanics came in at 8, I pulled my trailer into the bay.  After looking under the trailer they said that I was going to have to unload the trailer because they had to lift the trailer to work on it.  There was more wrong with it than just a simple fix.  I pulled back outside and unloaded the trailer.  I really love driving that machine!!  They drive so darned nice!!!  Anyway, I took the trailer back in and dropped it there.  In the meantime, the office staff had to reschedule my escort cars.  Here is part of the problem that had to be rewired.

It is amazing that any of my lights worked.  They replaced that harness then got to work on the initial problem, the ABS (Antilock Braking System).  They took off one of the wheels, checked the system, and replaced a sensor.  Once all that was done, I picked up my trailer and went outside, and reloaded the tractor on the trailer.  Then I parked for the night.  Will leave here in the morning.

Monday, November 1, 2021

 Left early again and drove into Topeka, Kansas, and delivered the wheel loader. My next load was way up in Waterloo, Iowa.  I drove there.  John Deere employees are still on strike so our loading procedure was changed a bit. Instead of waiting in a large staging area, we had to line up on the road.  This is what it looked like when I got there.

They did a very good job at keeping things moving.  Only took a little over an hour to get in to load. Once there, loaded a John Deere 8370 Tractor that is going to the Port of Baltimore in Dundalk, Maryland.

It is 12 feet, 6 inches wide.  That means I will have a few escort cars in certain states.  The first one is in Indiana.  Also means the permit route is really all over the place, not a straight shot to Baltimore.  I left there and drove to the Daily terminal in Bettendorf, Iowa for the night.  Tomorrow morning the mechanic here has to look at my trailer.  The ABS light is stuck on.  

Sunday, October 31, 2021