So on Monday morning my wife and I went down to the heart of Amish country in Berlin, OH and we did some walking around looking in the western wear shop and a couple antique malls, she bought a new end table for the living room and I bought a whiskey bottle, I love too see antique glass bottles for some reason. LOL We had lunch at a diner in town there and she took me back to my truck. I hopped in and bobtailed back to Berlin to pick up my loaded trailer.
I set off for MN to deliver Tuesday night. Chad aka DrSuessMN was waiting for me up at the Flying J in Lake Station, IN. So I finally made it up there and met up with him and we took off, this was like 1am so the ride through Chicago was a breeze, we did the I94 to IL41 back to I94 deal to avoid the tolls and when we got into WI we decided to shut down for some rest.
He was delivering in Milwaukee in the morning and I was already half way to Rogers, MN for 8pm Tuesday. So we drove through the Petro in Racine and it was packed so he said we should go check out the Kwik Trip across the street. We drove over there and backed up against the wall but the lady came out and said we couldn't park there, so we asked her if we could run inside real quick and then leave and she said okay. I go back out and stick my key in the door and the lock sometimes sticks so I put pressure on it and *SNAP* key breaks off right in the door! I always carry my spare key in my pocket with me but of course now its not there. Luckily my sleeper door was unlocked so I climbed inside and I tore the truck apart and couldn't find the spare key anywhere. So we hop in Chad's truck and drive back to the PETRO and they say they don't do anything with keys so we got directions and headed to WAL-MART but they couldn't help neither because they don't use the old style key machines anymore where they could clamp it together and trace the cut.
Chad drove me back to the Kwik Trip, also he called them before we went to WAL-MART so they would know what was going on. He dropped me off and he went over to the burger king lot to get some sleep. So I searched some more for that key with no luck, finally I called our mechanic at home and he told how to hot wire the truck from the ignition switch to get it running. It fired right up and I went over to the PETRO and got some sleep.
When I woke up I took off and headed west and I passed a Peterbilt dealer right off the interstate and I ran in there and gave them the vin # and they made me a new key for 5.00, so now I have a key again.I delivered my load last night in Rogers then went to Bogards for my first pick up this morning. Got loaded at 7:30 and headed into WI for two more pick ups in Granton and Appleton and I'm sitting in Luxemberg now for my 4th pick up in the morning then my final pick up in Hilbert and I'll be off to Ohio to drop the load tomorrow night in Navarre.
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