Good Wednesday morning from the best viewpoint of Mount Shasta in California! We have been wide awake and working – well sort of – doing research and full thought processing, all before our first cup of coffee! (I wonder how that is gonna turn out!) Actually, we are going to delay our departure towards our delivery. Why? Read on…
Ok now that I have coffee, let’s explain what we have decided to do. Since we were able to get loaded about 12 hours early from the shipper we are now way ahead of schedule. Normally when that happens we try to get the delivery to take us early as well. It so happens that our delivery with this load will NOT allow us to go in early. With this in mind, yesterday we decided to split the trip into two easy half days, but – then – I did research. Got your helmet on?
We can actually fit a 34 hour restart into this trip. We can sit until 1am Thursday morning and get a complete full set of 70 hours back. We can roll the remaining 300 miles to delivery and be there before they even open! With the new set of hours, we won’t be hitting the clock so hard. In fact, we already have a 2500+ mile trip lined up that could only be accomplished if we had a several full days worth of hours, such as what you get with a restart. See the grand plan now? Sure, nobody likes driving at night and you guys can’t see anything except the headlights, but it is a fair trade off for the ability to get much longer trips.
Rest up today and prepare for the BigRigTravels “Midnight California Express”!
