We started out this week after leaving John's house back in Windsor, CO waiting for a load to Baltimore. When we got there they told us nobody was doing paperwork because of the holiday (labor day) so we spent the night in the bobtail lot and checked in at 10:00 when our load was scheduled to be loaded. It was loaded but there was no paperwork yet, the office told me to check back in one hour, so we went down to Johnson's corner to get some breakfast and then we headed back and still nothing. Finally at 1 pm our paperwork was ready and we took off across highway 14 headed towards I76 and up to I80. The load was scheduled to deliver in MD on Thursday morning, which is almost 1,700 miles away. I knew there was no way we would be able to do this legally.
We fueled up in Big Springs, NE and headed on eastward. We both called into the blind spot trucker show on talkshoe.com with Trucker Steve. I spent three hours on the phone chatting with everyone and after the show ended I stayed on with Dr. Suess and Truckin Paul, who was only about thirty miles behind us. I was hoping to make it to Des Moines but ended up pulling off and going to sleep at exit 40 in Avoca, IA. When I woke up the next morning my dispatcher said she had set us up a relay over at exit 254 in IA. As soon as my ten hour break was complete we headed that way, when we got there we relayed with a team truck and took there empty trailer and headed back to Council Bluffs, IA to the Con-Agra plant to pick up a load for Russellville, AR.
I thought the load was supposed to pick up that day, but it wasn't until the next day, Thursday. So we dropped our trailer off at the plant and went over to the TA truck stop. We then went across the street to Wal-Mart and bought some cleaning supplies and headed back to the truck stop. We spent half the night cleaning the truck. Pocahontas cleaned the inside thoroughly and I polished and waxed the outside.Earlier in the day we got the truck washed at the blue beacon in Altoona. It was the first time in a few months I had washed it, it was filthy! After it was all done we had the truck looking like new again!
We then went to bed and got up Thursday morning and our load was ready and we proceeded down I-29 to Kansas City, which we hit right at 5 pm and it was a mess. We finally got through all the traffic and headed down US 71 to Joplin where I stopped at the Flying J to get a cup of coffee, it only took about forty five minutes to get in and out of there, I forgot what a mess that place can be.
We went down 71 to 540 and onto 40 east and finally arrived in Russellville about 2 am. I fueled up the truck and reefer at the Pilot and then went over to Americold and dropped my load off. We picked up an empty trailer and headed back to the Pilot. The next morning we got a load assignment to pick up back at Americold going to Phoenix, AZ. So I went and filled up the reefer again and headed over to the truck wash to have the trailer washed out then back over and dropped it off and picked up our load and we headed west. We spent the night about twenty miles from the NM line in TX at a little shell station. We took off Saturday morning and spent most the day listening to college football on XM. We tuned into the the Tennessee Vols game first, our favorite team. It was a great game but they lost. We then listened to a little bit of the Alabama game until the Ohio State Buckeyes came on, then we tuned in that game. We made it to the Pilot in Jamestown, NM to get fuel and there was one minute left in the game so I had the stereo cranked up in the fuel island. We lost the lead in that game with one minute left and I was running around the fuel island cursing like a lunatic. LOL
We left there and headed to Gallup to meet up with Florida Hillbilly, who i had been chatting with on Facebook. We showed up at the TA and I called him and he bob tailed over and we spent about an hour talking to him.
We left there and headed on into AZ and down I-17. We parked up for the night at the first brake check area here and we will deliver in Phoenix as 9pm tonight.
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