It is Monday the 28th of November and I am back up in the WalMart DC in Moberly, MO. I was able to get home for not only Thanksgiving day but for the entire weekend for the most part. It was a good thing because I ended up being sick for most of the weekend. It was good to see everyone and talk with the majority of my family on Thanksgiving.
I am going to make a renewed effort to keep this blog updated.
I did have a very big technical issue recently. I lost my cell phone in one of the stores I delivered to. Luckily it was returned to me and I should be posting on a more regular basis in the future.
I posted some pictures. The first picture is of a good friend, Duane Swacker. Duane lives in Warrenton, MO and i was able to meet up with him for dinner the other evening in Marthasville, MO. Great food in a little tavern along side of highway 47. I hope to do it again soon. The next set of pictures were taken on Thanksgiving day. I cooked a 17lb turkey on our Webber grill. This is the same grill that Sandy and JC gave to us when we graduated from college. It doesn't get used all that much anymore, but can still cook a bird to perfection. The pictures of the bird are when I first put it on the grill. Then after one hour of being on the grill. Another picture was taken after two hours on the grill and the final picture was taken after two and one half hours on the grill. The bird tasted as good as it looked.
I just got my pre-plan for my next load. I will be picking up the load around 10:00 this evening. My first delivery will be in Knoxville, IA at 12:45 AM tomorrow morning. The next stop will be in Des Moines at 2:45 AM, followed by another stop in West Des Moines at 4:45 AM. The final delivery will be in Ankeny, IA at 6:00 AM. Now here comes the interesting part.... I am scheduled to then pick up a "back load" in Mason City, IA at 5:00 AM! The timing doesn't work! But it shouldn't take me two hours in between the stops in and around Des Moines, so I should be OK to make to Mason City by 5:00 AM. I then take my 10 hour required by law break before I can drive that load down to the underground storage facility in Springfield, MO. As soon as I deliver that load, i will pick up an empty trailer there and drive it back to Moberly, MO. It is a little over 1000 miles. That is what I would call a "good Load".
I will endeavor to post on a more regular basis..... Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving...I know I did.....Tom
Monday, November 28, 2011
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday morning
I have 15 minutes until my ten hour break is over and I get to do it all again! Monday night I ended up spending the night in Carthage, MO. I picked up a backload in the underground storage facility otherwise referred to as "the caves". I have been to other facilities like this before, but never had to drive down into them in order to pick up the load. I attached some pictures. It is pretty strange to drive down into them. I ran out of hours while I was being loaded so I had to spend the night there. Tuesday I got up and drove back to Moberly.
As soon as I got there I was given another load going back don highway 63 south to Rolla and Saint Roberts, MO. On my way down to Rolla, I ran into a traffic jam that had me stopped on the highway for 45 minutes. This usually means some type of bad traffic accident. This one turned out to be a car full of teen-ager kids drinking and driving. They lost control of their vehicle. Easy to do on this highway. Very curvey and hilly two lane highway. They ended up crossing the center line of the highway and ran into a big truck traveling in the opposite direction. The car lost! The big truck ended up off the highway. Another trucker stopped to give assistance and said the car smelled like a brewry on the inside. I never heard if anyone lost their life or not. I would be surprised if some one didn't. While I was waiting in line, I took a picture or the fall color on the trees. Then I took a couple of pictures of the accident. I didn't get a shot of the car.....there wasn't much left of it. So remember....be careful out there.....the best thing to do in inclement weather is to slow down! Have a safe day.....Tom
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