We spent a glorious day in Virginia enjoying the 60 plus degree weather. Monday morning we headed to Winchester, VA to pick up a trailer and then through the hills to Baltimore, MD for our next w/a. We picked up a 43,400 pound load of miscellaneous cables to deliver in Chicago.
Have to tell you that was pretty much the toughest load we've had so far. Those hills of MD and WV were really tough with that much weight. It wasn't that bad going east with 30,000 but going west with the 43,000 plus was a real bear. Up at 25 miles per hour and down at 35, over and over and over again. Took 6 hours to cover 200 miles. The one consolation was that I passed two trucks who were obviously going slower than me at 25 mph. I guess they had a real long day.
Once we got through that and on into Ohio we had clear sailing until we got to Valpariso, IN. SNOW and lots of it. We went through numerous accidents. Another 30 miles at 25 mph - white outs all around.
We pushed through, carefully, to I65 where it was clear and on into Gary, 13 hour day. Long but pretty much legal.
We have two deliveries this morning - Hazel Crest and Alsip and then who knows. Maybe a break for the afternoon. They continue to say freight is slow but so far we haven't really seen it.
The weather folks say it's supposed to get down to 1 degree overnight. So far I think it's about 10.
Congratulations to Jason for completing the year-end 1099 process, on time.
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