I have not been able to write much this week. It's been a crazy week with lots of short runs, down time for unscheduled maintenance, lack of good wifi signals, short sleepless nights, and looooong days without the benefit of working all that hard. Let me explain that last one. There is no such thing as a typical day on the road, but this was a scenerio that took place one day this week.
Got up at 6am, departed at 630 to drive and make delivery at 8am as scheduled. Picked up new load on a preloaded trailer. Drove 1.5 hours to make delivery in des moines, ia. Had to wait 45 minutes for dock to open up and them to start unloading. Unloading took 2 hours. This brings us up to 1230. Drove 15 minutes to pick up a new trailer. Spent 2 hours inspecting this trailer and getting maintenance done on it. Dispatch calling me several times for updates since I was supposed to be in Guthrie Center, 1 hour west of des moines, before 3pm. Maintenance completed at 215 and arrived in gc around 330. Departed GC at 430 with 400 miles to drive. At 9pm rolled into davenport ia for an unexpected maintenance stop. The refer unit had stopped working on the 40lbs of eggs I was carrying. An hour later problem fixed. However, I was to tired to continue on so I stayed in Davenport that night, which left me a 3 hour ride into Chicago the next morning. With a 10 am appointment scheduled that meant I would have to leave Davenport by 6am (giving me an hour cushion). In order to leave by 6am, I would have to get up not later then 515am. By the time maintenance was completed on my trailer, and I had grabbed a bite to eat, it was midnight before I laid down to sleep.
That was all yesterday and 515 came really early this morning. Thankfully today was not as eventful as yesterday.
Happy motoring
Tom
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