Headed to Salisbury, NC

Thusday we got the truck back and decided to hang there in Green Bay where it was fairly cool.

We made our plan for Friday; head for the IdleAire in E. St. Louis and then head out at 0430 for Neely's Landing. We got to where we could see the Arch and my navigator (Teresa) decided that she would prefer not to have to get up that early, se we headed all the way to Neely's Landing - 580 miles. We stopped at a nice roadhouse and had catfish and bbq pork sandwich then parked a mile away. Delivered this morning at 0600. Last night we got our w/a for this morning so we planned one out. We deadheaded back to St. Louis and picked up a load right across the street from the Edwardsville OC then came over and showered. The load is headed for Salisbury, NC. We HAD figured to stop off in Nashville. Seems like another driver wants to take it as it's headed his direction. Whoa, he's decided not to take it.

We're letting the heat pass in Nashville expecting to arrive there about 1900. We figured if we hung out at the OC for a couple of hours we would get to Nashville about 1900 then hit the honkey tonks.

Not much else going on ready to hit the road... Nope, Teresa's going to surf a bit then we're out of here.

A new first - I know Craig and Diane have had it a few times, but it's a first for us...

While we were in the OC one of the guys said to watch out for P&G loads, they can be poorly loaded. Since we only had 39,000 lbs I figured to put the tandems in the 9th hole and head for the hills. Since he made that comment I thought I had better run by the scale, just to check. Good thing. The steers were at 12,000 which is the max, the drive tires were at 37,080 and the tandems were at 29,000. I moved the tandems all the way up and got it to 35080. Now what ?

Back to the shipper to remove and reload. Turns out it wasn't loaded according to the load plan.
When they got done I was still over 80 pounds (9th hole) so I moved it the tandems up 4 holes and hit it.

Since we hung out for two hours and THEN scaled and then spent 2 hours unloading and reloading I didn't have enough time on my 14 hour clock to make it to Nashville. So we're hanging out at the IdleAire in Mt. Vernon, IL. Which means we'll have to cover some good ground tomorrow, at least 500 miles. Which will leave 200 left to arrive in Salisbury by 1215 on Monday. Seems like a good plan, we'll see.