We ended up picking our load in Jonesboro, AR at midnight on Thursday. I drove through the night on good old Highway 63 into Missouri. I would have loved to have taken some pictures of the Ozark mountains, but it was the middle of the night so all you would have seen was blackness. Since I now have my 50 hours in, Jason can sleep while I am driving. He woke up right as we got into Kansas City. We delivered our load in Topeka and got another one going from Omaha, NB to New London, MI. (a suburb of Detroit) Jason drove the first leg of the run while I slept. I started to drive about 2:00am this morning until 6:30am. I started to get sleepy, so I pulled off the highway to take a walk around the truck to wake myself back up. I pulled into a closed Saturn dealership so I would be out of the way. I thought it would be the perfect place to stop......completely empty......what I didn't count on was a curb that I didn't see.......I felt a bump and then heard a loud hiss........I bent the rim on one of the trailer tires and lost all the air in the tire. So here we sit.....we have to wait for someone to come and replace the rim. It should take a.couple of.hours before we are on the road again.
Lesson learned....beware of very dark parking lots.....there are things out there that can get you!
I also included a couple of pictures I took while we were refueling in Nebraska ...... I thought my brother in law, Gary Bureau would get a kick out of the coffee pot picture......
Yikes! Too bad about the rim. That stinks. At least you get a little break. I got to see Shannon last night at Taste- she was working behind the bar- I tried her competition drink- it was good! Saw logan's team play too, they lost.
ReplyDeleteFall football kicked off yesterday- here's a link to some good photos- http://patch.com/A-l2Tn