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Tennessee!

Welcome to Tennessee where we are currently taking our 30 minute break and to snack on grapes, bananas, and marshmallow! Ha! We have already accomplished 255 miles so far with more to go yet. We deliver tomorrow morning then already have our next trip lined up. Good weather so far...

Lunch!

I am going to take a lunch break with my buddy at the Butterfly restaurant  in Rochelle and also take back this microwave. After I stuff my face we will keep driving some today and hopefully spend the night in Effingham where we will fuel up! Take a break and...

Fog monsters!

Good morning! I woke up to fog monsters and no sun! It is damp and certainly not 70 degrees like it has been last few days! I guess those days are going to be few and far between now… The shippers are loading our trailer right now and as soon...

bummer!

Welcome to Plover, Wisconsin! We are taking the rest of the day off to blow things up! Actually, we made our easy delivery about noon today and our next load comes out of the same place tomorrow morning. I will post that trip in a few minutes. I really was...

Let's roll!

Good morning! In a few minutes we will start driving towards our next shipper in Rochelle. Yesterday I went on a 4.5 mile walk along the old train tracks and path on the Fox river. The colors and millions of leaves covering the trail was great. I also went to...

Restart

Good afternoon Ya’ll! We have reached the end of the line for today:) We made our drop delivery just fine this morning. Now we have Bobtailed out to the Elgin area truckstop where we will take the rest of the day off today then take all day off tomorrow for...

Saturday messes!

Good morning! We started out early to go find an empty. The address I was given to check in St Louis was a closed gate, so I called the number and was told they would show up to let me in. Forty five minutes later, nobody showed up but I...

Hercules!

We have decided to stop just short of St Louis, Missouri. The place we delivered to had no empties, so we have been hunting for one ever since! There is an empty sitting in Milan, Missouri and that is where we are headed…503 miles of bobtail! There is a place...

Lunch in Jones!

Welcome to Jonesboro, Arkansas! We just delivered and now are taking our lunch and stuffing face. This delivery had no empties so we will have to hunt one down someplace…. I will post the next trip in between bites!

Lunch in 4 corners!

We are having a good lunch and taking our 30 minute break at the Four Corners truckstop in Iowa. Lots of wind but dry roads. After break, we will only have five hours left to see just how far we can get before running out of hours. For the next...

Guilty?

We are going to go ahead and stop for today. We have already been working ten hours but we only have about ten hours left to share between today and tomorrow. We have plenty of time on this load and it works out great….we just might as well save some...

Loading?

Morning! On boy, I heard that terrible weather word this morning… They are calling for snow flurries tonight in Iowa! They are taking their sweet time loading us here this morning! Driving up here the wind was pretty bad. Hhmmm, snow flurries and wind makes a blizzard??? Looks like all...