Woke of this morning to the sound of frozen rain tapping on the fiberglass roof of my truck. Has to crank up the truck and defrost my windows before I could take off. Then it was 15-20 mph up I-75 until I ran into better weather about 50 miles up the road. No big deal [...]
On the road now and I’m feeling better. As soon as I get used to truck driving again. I usually feel a little worn out the first day back after a couple of days at home, well this time I went two weeks at home before I was able to run again. I’m bushed! [...]
Hopefully, I’ll be running my truck tomorrow. I’m definitely heading up to the truck in the AM and will be there for the next three weeks. I’m certainly wanting lots of truck loads but I’ll settle for a few. Just get me moving and making some money. I can’t do this for another week!
I’ve heard [...]
I’m even later to the party than Jay G but I thought I might play along. I’m not tagging anyone either but if this moves you to do one yourself, let me know.
100 Thing You Have Done.
Started your own blog. (Back in 2001 I posted my first drivel on a blogspot blog.).
Slept under the stars. [...]
A tweet from Michele about how her kid thought she didn’t know what STFU meant and her reply, “I WAS USING INTERNET ACRONYMS WHEN YOU WERE STILL IN DIAPERS, BOY!”, got me to thinking about my own ‘Net credentials. I’m a 46 year old truck driver now, but for many years previous I was neck [...]
I’m in Knoxville tonight, waiting for the sun to rise. My overdimensional permit are about a half-ton too light for the load I’m carrying. The big scalehouse nearby has been doing heavy business all day and I don’t much feel like getting a ticket. And being that today is Veterans Day, all the permit offices [...]
@Ridgerunner I don’t miss having a TV in my truck anymore. Standard TV fare is bad enough, political hackery makes me nauseous. F*ck Hope! #
3rd night in fucking Des Moines. Still no load. Angry Samoans’ “Lights Out” sounds like a plan right about now. Must inventory cutlery… #
Correction: Make that FOUR nights in a row. Fuck me to tears, i can’t make no money like this. If I knew another skill, I’d be doing it!! #
Gas is $2.03, but [...]
Cranky, old fossil dude or hot, hip, new solcialist… Is this what we are down to now? This country is so very fucked, no matter who wins. #
First it was flatbedders sitting on their asses waiting for loads. Now van drivers, many pumpkin trucks, in FL bobtail or waiting in t/s. #
Haulling misc crap from [...]
Unless you’re reading this via a newsreader, you might notice I’ve upgraded the look and feel around here. The old plain template was good, it was just … plain. The new template is from Bytes For All and the images that will rotate through the header are all mine from the road. If you [...]
This is what awaited me as I took off from VA yesterday. A foggy sunrise and clear evidence to me of the losing battle I’m waging with bugs. Actually you could say I was winning, I’m pretty sure the smithereens caked on my windshield are all from "ex-bugs." Aye, but at what cost?!
Picked [...]
Down for the weekend in Max Meadows, VA. Got good news and bad news.
Good news: Got a nice 2 stop load to pick up going to FL.
Bad news: Doesn’t pick up til Monday, I waited all day today to get this load, I most likely won’t get layover because I’m technically "assigned to a load" [...]
After enjoying last weekend at home, wrangling a couple of grandkids who spent the weekend I’m back on the road. I’ve got some tanker truck and a container that I picked up at a Air National Guard base in Wisconsin and I’m headed for Georgia to deliver tomorrow. From there I’ll head to a [...]
Down for a 34 hr break in Birmingham, Alabama. I got lucky and my dispatch came up with a load out of Covington, Kentucky that I could pick up today. Monday, I’ll head to Mobile to deliver the load.
Being a flatbed driver I deal with lots of places that are only open from 8am [...]
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