Almost Heaven

It's 4:35 Thursday and I'm done for the day !!! One more and a wake up.

Tuesday I had all my loads dropped (Springfield, Leominster and Wilmington) all in MA by 10:00 am and ready for the next w/a. I expect the next ones to be tricky. 10:45, OK here we go. Wilmington is on the north side of Boston. Th next w/a has me going to the south side of Boston and picking up a load of GM transmissions/engines headed for Detroit. Wondering if I really had to go to Detroit I headed out. Whew - they routed me to Seville, OH to relay it.

I headed for Seville and got there Wed 1300. OK now what. Dropped the trailer, picked up an empty trailer and showered in 30 minutes...The next w/a was to run up to Cleveland 38 miles away and pick up some stuff for Dollar General in Ardmore, OK. PERFECT !!!

I get to the shipper and the load is canceled. DARN. Now I'm a positive thinker and doer, but this is starting to stretch. So I hang around Cleveland about an hour and I get ANOTHER w/a !

This time 80 miles to Clyde, OH - Whirlpool and pick up a load of appliances headed to Mexico. I didn't know they went out of the country I thought they were making them outside (cheaply) and shipping them back into the country. Learn something new every day.

So Wed about 5:00 I picked up a the appliances and this morning at 4:00 I headed out. I'll probably have to stop that when the Funny Lady gets back on board. I'll take it...

And now, as I said before, I'm in E. St. Louis, IL. Obviously just across the river from St. Louis. MO. I'm hanging around here in case Sarah Palin wants a little working man coaching before the debate with Joe Biden. At least I could tell her what magazines and newspapers make good reading ! "All of them" doesn't really cut it.

Anyway this load of appliances is headed for Laredo, TX but I'm expecting to meet another Schneider driver at my drop spot in OK on Saturday and be done for 5 days.

Since this is really what they call a high value load the hand off has to be face-to-face. So I'm waiting for the dispatcher to QC me an expected arrival time on Sat.

I don't have enough running hours to make it all the way to OKC from here so I'm planning to stop after about 6 hours at the new casino we were at a while back - the one that you enter from MO, park in KS and gamble in OK.

As I was driving in a bit ago I was reflecting that Friday last week I was delivering at Macy's on the west side of St. Louis and have since been up to Green Bay over the top of the UP and over to MA and all the way back to St. Louis in 7 days. I don't actually know how many miles that is, but I'm guessing real close to 3,500. And that's three weeks out.

I need a break and the Funny Lady.

Bob