I left at 1 AM EDT. Drove 645 miles to the Flying J truck stop in Pontoon Beach, Illinois for my 10 hours. Then settled in for an afternoon of college football. SEC football is the best!!! I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!!!
.jpg)
Well from the looks of things, the Gators have not improved much since last year. It is going to be another very long season for them. It doesn't matter; I still love them!! I have a feeling they will be looking for another new coach next year.
I was at JLG in Shippensburg, PA at 6 AM EDT to load this morning. They have no record of the machine I was to load. Had to wait until 8 AM for the folks at Daily to get to work and figure out what went wrong with the paperwork. Great way to start the day!!
At 8 AM my dispatcher called and said that my machine was at the yard in Carlisle. He also wanted me to go to McConnellsburg, PA, pick up a Caterpillar Telehandler, bring it to the yard in Carlisle, and then load my machine. So nice when the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing!!! So I drove to McConnellsburg and loaded a Caterpillar TL1055 Telehandler.
When I got to Carlisle I unloaded it and then loaded the JLG 660SJ Boom Lift that is going to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
My truck is all finished with routine maintenance. My trailer is going to stay here. I got a brand-new trailer instead. It came in yesterday. After the shop finished doing what they do with new trailers and adding the 6 new "D" rings that I requested, they brought it out for me to swap into. Of course, just as I started to move all my equipment over to the new trailer it started to rain. It has been sunny the entire time I have been here and the moment I start to work on my trailer it rains!!
When I finished I was soaked through to the skin. Went and showered. I will load tomorrow morning in Shippensburg, PA.
They finished all the work on my truck this afternoon. My trailer is another story. They brought it into the shop this afternoon. Still don't know what they are going to do with it. They offered me a hotel room tonight so I took them up on the offer. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
I left this morning at about 2:30 AM EDT and drove the rest of the way to Bear, Delaware. No traffic issues at all. Delivered the skid steers and went to the "home office" in Carlisle, PA. Dropped my trailer in the parking lot. It wasn't too long before they brought my truck into the truck shop and got to work on it. Meanwhile, I got a car and did a few errands. They got a lot of the routine maintenance done to the truck. Still have to replace the windshield and a few other things.
Found a problem with my trailer too. It could potentially be a major one. They will look into it further in the morning. The picture will mean nothing to you, but here it is anyway.
