Lots Of Catching Up To Do

Have you ever procrastinated on something and then it got worse and worse ? Me too ! Once I missed a day or so, which I'll explain, I kept putting off updating the blog, and it got worse and worse. I've got some time now and there is no excuse except that I'm pooped.

Here we go... We had a great weekend slumming out at the Four Points hotel. We delivered in Chicago on Monday and headed over to the Hinsdale Oasis on I294 to wait it out. Had a Gyro and turkey leg. They were both excellent, wouldn't quite expect it at the oasis, but it was. We waited a bit more. Then my DBL sent us over to the Gary OC to wait some more. About 1300 we got our next w/a; pick up an empty trailer in Sauk Village and take it over to Toys R Us for a 1900 pickup with a delivery 370 miles away in Lexington, KY at 0600 the next morning(Tues). Yep an all nighter. Of course I new it and tried to snooze, to no avail.

We stopped at the border of Indiana and Kentucky and took an hour nap about 0200. Helped a lot. We made the delivery at the Toys R Us store with 2 hours left on our 14 hour clock. While unloading we got our next w/a. I figured we were going to have to sit until Wednesday. Nope they had us run 35 miles south to Lancaster, KY and pick up 44,000 pounds of scrap paper to deliver in Loudon, TN. On paper we were done at 0700(CST) for the day so we could not start back up until 1700, which we did. We hung out in the little town of Lancaster to run out our 10 hour break. Of course not much sleeping in the daylight.

This trip was 173 miles and we finished real close to 2100. Somewhere in there we got our next w/a to pick up a load of toilet paper from the same place we dropped the scrap paper. So, have you figured it out yet ? We're essentially using shredded documents that has been refined into toilet paper.

Friday we delivered the t/p in Cincinnati and ran over to the Smuckers plant close by and picked up a load of jam headed for WalMart in Robert, LA. We had another great evening in Nashville, wandering through the honkey tonks and watching Teresa play in the fountains, with the OTHER little kids.

We were planning on delivering the jam this afternoon after a long day but got a flat tire and had to wait 4 hours for a guy to come out on I59 in Mississippi to fix it.

We're in Slidell, LA, just outside of New Orleans tonight and will be in Robert by 0800, and we already have our next w/a; pick up an empty trailer there at WalMart and run up to Brookhaven, MS to get a load of pallets headed to St. Louis, MO. With an AT deliver of 1500 we should be done by 1630 on Monday.

It does seem like freight has gotten a bit busier the last week, but it could be just a mirage.

14 days till TAH.

I'm up-to-date now, no more procrastinating.