Sunday, April 22, 2012

Good afternoon from Hampshire, IL

We dropped our trailer at the processing plant for future fries/chips and picked up a very dirty empty trailer.  They do lift the trailers in the air to dump the load and I will have to share that picture another time as this Internet connection bites.  We arrived at 8 AM and was assigned a load at 9:30 AM to Florida!

Good news, I have never delivered there as a solo driver.  Bad news, the dang nab it driving hours!  We are to pick up our next load at 2:30 PM tomorrow, just an hour from where I am sitting.  Then we will drive 1000 miles to Jacksonville, FL, with the load due at 7 AM on the 25th.  It stated in the notes that to drop/hook before 7 AM.  Now if I can get the shipper to let me pick up a few hours early, I can be parked at midnight tomorrow.  If I can drop early, I can do so between 9 & 10 PM on the 24th.  I will try my best to make sure I get back to my day hours and not drive all nighters!

I will let you know in the morning what our schedule is after I talk to the clients.

Since we stopped early, we walked early, I cleaned the truck, I washed laundry and have a fresh bed to sleep in.  Hopefully I will be able to "skype" with dear ones this evening but we will see how our web connection is later today.  For now, I will hit the restaurant for a hot dinner that I did not prepare!

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