I thought I would be sitting in the Swift terminal in Memphis by now. My how things can change in a day. We got to West Memphis about 10:30 last night. Jason decided not to deliver the load until this morning. We spent the night and delivered the load this morning. While we were waiting for the warehouse workmen to unload the trailer, Jason asked me if I wanted to do a.few more runs with him. I said that I would, so we got assigned to.a.load that picks up in Jonesburro, Arkansas and delivers in Topeka, KS. So, we are in Jonesborro, sitting in a truckstop parking lot. I am in the sleeper and will be getting some sleep before we pick up.at 9:00pm. I am going to be doing the driving tonight. It should take around eight hours to get there. I will write more later....
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Came in the night like a thief
I got so involved in what was going to happen yesterday, that I forgot to post about it. We picked up a load in Chesapeake, VA yesterday morning about 10:00am. The load was to be delivered today by 3:00pm in Eldon,MO. Needless to say, I was very excited since I knew that the load had to go right by Saint Charles...... Jason drove first and drove through all of VA and West Virginian. He then drove into KY and stopped. I started driving in KY, then into Indiana, Illinois and then finally Missouri.
Diane was kind enough to pick me up and take me home for an hour. She picked me up at 2:30am. Lucy came to be part of the welcoming committee too. I was able to pick up couple of things and drop off some others. I also woke up Al & Nick to say Hi and Bye......then it was back to the truck. I drove to Eldon,MO and arrived by 7:00Am. It was then that I learned that Jason was intending to take a few days off and was going to drop me off at the Memphis, TN terminal after our next loaf had been delivered on West Memphis either this evening or tomorrow.
So we are in Granite City, IL waiting for our trailer to be filled.....that's all there is for now.........
Monday, August 22, 2011
Still in Virginian Beach, VA
It is Monday afternoon and I just woke up. We left jason's house yesterday around 6:00pm. We drove from Smithsville, NC and delivered to our first stop in Newport News, VA. We got there at 1:00am. It was good that we got there before our scheduled delivery time of 3:00am, however the people who worked there didn't get there until exactly at 3:00am. So we had to wait around and then it took another hour and a half for.them to unload their portion of the trailer. We then drove to Virginian Beach to finish delivering this load. We were able go leave around 7:00am. So we found a Walmart parking lot and crawled onto the bunk. The most interesting part of the drive was going under the Chesapeak Bay in a tunnel. There is a major naval base some where close to here. There are naval aviators flying around here and it can get pretty loud.
We have put in a request for a new load. So far nothing has been available. So we will sit and wait. The last 24 hours have been quite different than the last couple.of days. I guess you have to take the good with the bad.........I will write more later.
