I left the house Thursday night and picked up my truck from the yard with a fresh new A/C and all, it was a big relief! I went over to IN and loaded up Friday morning and drove all the way to Keasbey, NJ and parked in the holding area and check in. They started calling trucks around 0400 and I swore I heard them say something about truck 233, I walked into the office to see if they were talking to me but they didn't know what I was talking about, I don't know maybe I was hearing things, or wishful thinking. They finally did call me to a dock around 0800 and of course I didn't get out till 1100 and made it to the final stop last minute, they stop receiving at noon. It's a driver unload,one pallet breaks into six, so I knocked that out real quick and headed to DE to pick up the bananas for delivery in Newcomerstown, OH this morning.
I always take 287 to 202 and 31 to I95 to avoid the ridiculous tolls on the turnpike. Coming out of DE last time I took 202 and it had a lot of lights so this time I went back into PA and took some other roads I thought might be quicker to pick up 30 but just ended up right back on 202 anyway and it just wasted more time I think. I did find a nice diner outside Lancaster with truck parking called "Jennie's Diner" the food was great, had that homecooked feel to it, and plenty of it, I took the rest with me for later.
I took 30 into Lancaster and 283 into Harrisburg then went over to I-81 and down to Carlisle and fueled up and ran over to Breezewood then 30 to 220 and I-99 then 22 into Ohio. This is a good road and saves a lot of money and doesn't take too much more time. The fog got really thick by the time I got into Ohio, couldn't even hardly see the road in front of you. I made it to the 250 get off and instead of going west I accidentally got off the east exit. Now there was a parking lot I could have turned around in, but due to the fog I didn't see it until it was to late so I went into Athens, and I knew I didn't want to go east because there was no turn around down there for sure. So I took Ohio 9 south and hoped for something, well no such luck. For a state road this was like a COUNTY road. It may have been eight foot wide, but not an inch more twists and turns and hills so steep I was climbing them in 3rd gear and barely made it the top. it was a white knuckle ride for sure! Couldn't see ten foot in front of the hood and them sharp turns and steep grades. I finally came to a town and saw a sign for route 22 turn right six miles, so I turned right and followed that highway, pretty much the same thing as route 9. Finally made it back to 22 and had to make an impossible right turn and followed that back to 250 then 36 into Newcomerstown, the fog never did let up a bit. After all that it took me 2.5 hours to get there from the time I originally got off the exit, forty miles away.
I was so tired after I got unloaded I went back to the truck stop and went to bed before driving to the yard where my wife came and picked me up this afternoon. Tomorrow night I'll be setting out for MN.
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