Saturday, July 3, 2010

Boring day.  Meandered up to Columbia, SC for the night.

My georgous ocean view,   NOT!!!

Friday July 2, 2010

Drove up to Birmingham, AL this morning.  Unloaded part of my load.  Had a weird squeek from under the hood so I went to the Peterbilt shop just down the road & had that fixed.  Worn out fan belt and a bad idler pulley.  After that was fixed I drove to Atlanta for the night.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Drove over to Slidell, LA and stopped for a day or so.  Ran out of hours.  Will be here till early Friday morning. 

Getting the very outer bands of rain from Hurricane Alex.  Sometimes pretty heavy rain.  The usual for one of these things.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Delivered the steel Tuesday morning then went down to Stafford, TX, which is just south of Houston, and picked up my next load.

Taking a load of granite Slabs (used to make granite counter tops) to Awendaw, South Carolina with a stop in Birmingham, Alabama to drop off some first.  These things are really heavy!!  It took over 6 hours to load so I didn't get very far.  Stopped for the night in Baytown, Texas.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Delivered this morning at  the airport in Los Fresnos, TX.  Then went over to Brownsville, TX to get my next load.  It is steel going up to Houston.  Picked it up & drove to Houston.  Stopped for the night in Houston just down the road from where I deliver.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Left Texarkana this morning and drive down to Harlingen, TX.  That is down near Brownsville.  I deliver this load in the morning at the airport in Los Fresnos, TX  Sure is a long way down here!!  Doesn't look that far on the map, but it sure is!!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Drove from Alorton, IL to Springfield, MO and stopped at Thermo King to have my APU serviced, When that was done drove down to Texarkana, AR to sleep for the night.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Picked up my next load in Joliet, IL.  It is a bunch of galvanized metal parts to an airplane hanger.  Taking them down to Los Fresnos, Texas.  That is right next to Brownsville. 

Sprung an air leak so I stopped and had that fixed. Real simple fix. 

Stopped for the night just outside St. Louis in Alorton, IL. Can see the Gateway Arch from here.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Drove up to Bolingbrook, Illinois to the Peterbilt shop to have a couple minor repairs done,  Finished that and spending the night in Bolingbrook. Tomorrow I pick up my next load.  It is in Joliet, IL.  It is going to the Brownsville, Texas area.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Big time weather coming this way. Thunderstorm and Tornado Watch in effect till 9 pm local time. Radar looks nasty. Wind is blowing pretty good & Sky is getting real dark.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Got up real early, about 2:30am local time and got back on the road.  Left in a thunder storm.  Had rain most all the way down to Elwood, IL.  Elwood is south of Chicago.  Drove through Janesville on the way. Delivered a day early in Elwood this afternoon.  Drove into a warehouse to unload.  I like driving a semi inside buildings.  Spending the night in Morris, IL.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Went to a tarp repair shop in Fargo, ND to have the holes in my tarps patched.  Got that done and drove over to Manahga, Minnesota to pick up a load of lumber that was going to Elwood, Illinois.  Got that and drove to Rodgers, MN for the night.  Got there late, around 10pm local time.

Monday, June 21,2010

Delivered my load this afternoon at a plant where they make those huge wind turbine blades.  They were all over the place.  I took a few photos of them. There were hundreds of these blades lined up all around the building. 

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Drove up to Grand Forks, North Dakota this morning.  Staying here until tomorrow morning when I deliver just down the road from here.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Uneventful driving day.  Spending the night in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Went to a place in Fort Collins, Colorado that makes robotic arms.  Loaded a bunch of parts that are part of a robotic arm that works on those huge blades from the wind turbines.  You know, the ones that are popping up all over as a form of "green" energy.  This thing is used in the manufacturing process of the blades.  When they put the 2 half's of the blades together this robot runs along the blade and trims off the excess fiberglass then sands it smooth.  By hand it takes 6 people 6 hours to do that.  This machine does it all in 2 hours.  I was one of 3 other trucks today picking up parts to this machine.  There are 3 more scheduled Monday.  All of us are going to a place in Grand Forks, North Dakota where the blades are manufactured.  It took all day to load my trailer so I didn't get very far.  I stopped for the night in Burns, Wyoming.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Delivered my lumber load this afternoon in Broomfield, Colorado.  I was a day ahead of schedule.  Tomorrow I pick up a load in Fort Collins, Colorado going to Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Yesterday drove through a snow thunderstorm. No accumulation from that.  But last night had a light dusting of snow.  How about that??!!??

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

This morning I loaded up with my load of lumber and headed off toward Broomfield, Colorado.  Drove down another really great road.  255 miles from Lewiston, ID down to Boise, ID on US-95.  Lots of steep up and down and curves.  Drove for a long way in a canyon that followed the Salmon River.  It twisted and turned all over the place.  Took a few photos.  Hope you like them. 

Stopped for the night in Ogden, Utah.  598 miles today.  Not bad considering I got loaded and tarped this morning.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Drove down to Lewiston, ID on US-195. Beautiful 2 lane road.

Miles and miles of georgous rolling hills of farm land.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Finally got a load of lumber that picks up tomorrow morning in Lewiston, Idaho.