Saturday, October 17, 2015

Well, they put up a very good fight but LSU was just too much for them.

Florida Gators

6-0, 1st in East Division

Saturday, October 17, 6:00 PM

Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

8Florida Gators (6-1)

 

28 - 35

Final

LSU6 Tigers (6-0)

	1	2	3	4		Total
Florida	7	7	14	0		28
LSU	0	28	0	7		35

Friday, October 16, 2015

While running an errand this afternoon one of the pulleys for the serpentine belt seized up causing the belt to break.  I drove back to the Petro and had it repaired there. Replaced all the pulleys and belt. I'll be there for the rest of the weekend. At least it is fixed and working now.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Got started at 4:30 EDT this morning.  The farmers are hard at work harvesting.

Drove to Frankfort, Illinois and delivered the wheel loader.  My next load is not until next week. Hoping to get something local before then, but I won't hold my breath. In the mean time I went to the Petro truck stop in Monee, Illinois to wait.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Went over to Caterpillar in Clayton, NC first thing this morning.  Loaded a Caterpillar 926M Wheel Loader that is going to Frankfort, Illinois.  

Got on the road in very good time.  Going through the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia the fall colors were looking real good.  Tried to take a few photos for you but they really didn't come out very good.  Here is one of them.  The colors are much better in person.

 Passed a couple of large pumpkin farms.  They were harvesting them.  I tried to get a photo of that too, but it was too far away.

I zoomed in on a section for you. No "Great Pumpkin" yet Charlie Brown.

Stopped for the night at a truck stop in Jackson, Ohio.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Well my number came up this month for a random drug / alcohol test so I went and had that done.  After that I went to the Kenly 95 truck stop in Kenly, NC.  My next load is tomorrow in Clayton, NC.

Monday, October 12, 2015

As soon as they opened this morning I delivered the excavator.  When hooking back up to my trailer it high sided again breaking the 5th wheel cylinder again.  I was able to reattach to my trailer and go find a new part to fix the problem. They had 3 so I bought all 3.  Then went up to the Wilco-Hess truck stop in Salisbury, NC.  I replaced the broken part and did some other minor repairs.  Still don't have another load so I'll just wait here.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Right at sunrise I got out of there and drove the 4 miles to the Caterpillar dealer where I deliver Monday morning.  Parked in their driveway.  

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Got on the road at about 8:45 this morning.  No problems going around Washington DC but had a bit of bumper to bumper traffic between DC and Richmond, VA.  On the Richmond bypass, I-295, Had to stop before going over the James River Bridge and wait for the cops. My permit required that I go over the bridge with no other traffic.  When he got there he shot down all the traffic and I went over the bridge.  After I got across he opened the road back up again. Everything was fine until I got to Charlotte.  I had it timed that I would arrive at the truck stop right at sundown.  When I got to the truck stop, it was full.  To make a very LONG story short, I ended up parking on the side of  a dead end road with a couple other trucks.  Fortunately the cops did not bother me.

HOW 'BOUT THEM GATORS !!!!!!!!!!

Florida Gators

6-0, 1st in East Division

Yesterday, 7:30 PM

Memorial Stadium at Faurot Field, Columbia, Missouri

11Florida Gators (6-0)

 

21 - 3

Final

Missouri Tigers (4-2)

	1	2	3	4		Total
Florida	14	0	7	0		21
Missouri	3	0	0	0		3

Friday, October 9, 2015

Left this morning at sunrise and drove to Frederick, Maryland and delivered the building.  From there drove to the TA truck stop in Jessup, Maryland. Another truck had loaded a Caterpillar 329FL Excavator and was taking it to Charlotte, North Carolina. His truck broke down and he had to leave his trailer with the load at the truck stop.  I went there to get the load and deliver it.  Another truck came down from Carlisle to take the other trailer back to Carlisle after I put the excavator on my trailer.

By the time all that was done it was too late to leave the truck stop.  Would not make the Washington DC curfew.  But the main reason is that my Maryland permit did not come in until 4:15 pm.   I will start tomorrow morning after the Washington DC curfew is over.  Can sleep in a little bit.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Left this morning at sunrise.  Another good day on the road.  Passed a semi truck wreck.  He took the exit ramp a little too fast and the truck fell over.  Also passed another Google Maps Street View car.

This evening stopped at the Love's truck stop in Toms Brook, Virginia.  Barely got a spot to park. Had to parallel park.  You try this with a wide load that you can't see whats behind you.  Actually, there was plenty of room, it was easy.

I deliver tomorrow morning in Frederick, Maryland.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Left at sunrise this morning.  Nothing exciting or interesting all day.  Stopped for the night at a small truck stop in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Finally got another load!!!   Left OKC at about midnight and drove down to Minden, Louisiana and loaded a cell phone building that is going to Frederick, Maryland.  

It took over 3 hours for them to load me, and my Arkansas permit had not come in, so I ran out of hours.  Could only go as far as the little truck stop around the corner from where I loaded.  

Saturday, October 3, 2015

FINAL	1	2	3	4	T
3 Ole Miss (4-1, 2-1 Conf)	0	0	3	7	10
25 Florida (5-0, 3-0 Conf)	13	12	0	13	38