Saturday, September 3, 2022

 

Friday, September 2, 2022

 Left at about 8 AM EDT this morning.  Drove up to Bensalem, PA, and delivered the wheel loader.  From there I drove to the "home office" in Carlisle, PA.  My truck has a manufacturer's recall on it and my trailer needs to have a small problem fixed.  Unfortunately, I'll be here until at least Tuesday because of the long holiday weekend.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

 Left a half hour before sunrise this morning and drove the rest of the way to the Port of Baltimore in Dundalk, Maryland.  When I got there I didn't have the correct paperwork.  I had told daily that I didn't several days ago but they said what I had would be fine.  It wasn't.  Had to wait an hour for them to get the correct paperwork to me.  Then I unloaded the tractor.  Reloaded, right there, a Caterpillar 950M wheel loader that is going to Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Left there and went over to the TA truck stop in Baltimore for the night.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

 Left this morning a half hour before sunrise.  Didn't get very far.  There was a bad wreck in Dayton, OOhio that had I-70 east bound shut down.  I stopped at the TA truck stop in Eaton, Ohio for fuel and to wait it out.  I took a nap.

Several hours later, when I woke up, the Interstate was open again.  I got back on the road.  When I passed the wreck site they still had a lane closed and were still cleaning up the haz-mat stuff.  I stopped for the night at the Flying J truck stop in Millersport, Ohio.  Hope tomorrow is better!!

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

 All the rest of my permits had come in except Illinois.  At about 11:30 AM CDT I sent an email asking when they thought I might get it.  About 5 minutes later they replied that I didn't need an Illinois permit because farm equipment was exempt. It sure would have been nice if they had told me that yesterday!!!!! So, I left.  Drove to a truck stop in Crawsfordsville, Indiana for the night.

Monday, August 29, 2022

 Went over to Caterpillar in South Milwaukee, WI first thing this morning and delivered the rack.  Then drove back to Sturtevant to the Case plant and loaded a Case 340 Tractor that is going to the Port of Baltimore so it can go on an ocean voyage to Australia. 

Left there and drove to a small truck stop in Poplar Grove, Illinois to wait for my Illinois permit to come in. Hopefully, it will come in early tomorrow morning.