Good afternoon from a well rested professional commercial driver :)

I had an awesome night's sleep in the second room (first room had a bad TV) which provided a king size bed and very soft pillow (much better then the two twins in the first room).  I slept........10 hours!  I needed the break obviously.

When it was time to take that long awaited bath..........the drain plug was broken!  I told you last night, this place isn't much and full of false advertising.  I saw a billboard that stated $36 a night and semi parking, so I stopped of course.  While waiting in line, I overheard that the rooms where $69 but $59 for truck drivers and the big sign outside the motel, stated $40 a night!  This place is only worth $36 a night.  I went straight to the office to discuss the drain and they offered me a third room (the only one left) and I turned it down, it was worse than the one I am currently in!  They are suppose to be making it right by me so we will see what they will offer to make me want to return.  The motel............Motel 6!

I just finished watching a new series called "Hell on Wheels".  It reminded me of "Deadwood" but without all the nudity and vulgar language (which of course, make it awesome, as that is how it was back then).  I enjoyed the four in a row shows and hope that I will be able to follow it as my driving allows.  Check it out!  You can never go wrong with westerns as far as I am concerned!

As for the past week, it has been a hit and miss of decent days and days of which, no one should get out of bed for.  I had one day of just searching for a dang trailer and was sent to 4 locations before it was found (much to the relief of the client as his share of this load to the consignee was past due).  The only problem with this client...his load was too big for his share (trailer had a partial load from another shipper) of the trailer!  They had to manually load the trailer with boxes of memory foam pads like a giant puzzle, trying to use as much space as possible.  They were able to get 5/8s of their original load in but due to the delay, my clock was up and I had to spend the night there......on a brand new memory foam topper!  Even though Planning messed up this load and had it running a week late,  the client appreciated the fact that I would stay until their load was ready to go. 

It looks like rain is in the forecast when we head out tomorrow but it will be getting colder as we head west.  As long as I keep running my day hours, we should be ok as the roads will likely stay clear.  I don't understand those night drivers that drive at the worst possible time as the temps get colder once that sun goes down which of course, brings on ice and snow.......and with less vehicles on the road, it can stick!  Not only that, the plow trucks are well known to be out in force just before morning and evening rush hour traffic (if equipped to do so).  I have better odds of reaching my drops (and driving safely) moving during daylight hours.

Off to make lunch and maybe work on that draft I have been writing about all week!

Pictures of the trucks that were either caught off guard or plain crazy that were tipped over in Utah two days ago.  Glad I wasn't one of them!