From Kentucky to Ohio

Kentucky to Minnesota

Dec 16th pickup at Smuckers in Scottsdale, KY and brought it to St. Paul, MN for drop on the 18th. On the 17th we spent about 4 ½ hours at a Freightliner shop in DeForest, WI attempting to get the truck repaired. One of the major problems is the Webasto heater will not work and emitting diesel fumes into the cab of the truck. The Webasto is a heater that runs off of the diesel and doesn’t require the truck to be running; a huge space heater of sorts. They couldn’t fix it so we now have to find another shop somewhere soon.

Minnesota to Georgia

On December 18th we received a load for pickup on Saturday, December 19th, @ 0600. Our pickup location was Birds Eye Food, Waseca, MN. Our scheduled drop off was December 21st in Atlanta, GA at Nordic Cold Storage.

Georgia to Alabama to Texas

On December 19th we received a load for pickup on Monday, December 21st with a spread of 10:00 – 17:00 @ Kimberly Clark in LaGrange, GA. Our destination: Paris, Texas via Alabama which meant a trip to Enterprise, AL to see our daughter Chrislyn and grandsons Corey and Phoenix. It was our first time meeting our grandson Phoenix who is now 1 ½ years old. He is so cute and has quite the personality, fun loving and full of character. It was only a few hours BUT a few hours that is very much treasured. Again, our departing was very difficult and my heart was deeply saddened. I do thank God for the blessing of being able to visit with them after two years of not seeing them. It was a great Christmas present for us.

Utah Drop & Load – Ohio Destination

We successfully dropped our load in Salt Lake City. Oh how I love coming to this part of the country. I don’t know what it is but there is definitely something that makes the hair on my arms stand up. And, the beauty is absolutely incredible. The snow capped mountains are so refreshing to look at and there are plenty.

I was able to capture some good pics for you. Last night when we were driving through Wyoming it was very late and very dark. The only thing you can see is the lights from other vehicles and the occasional town alongside the Interstate.

 As we approached Fort Bridget, Wyoming, out in the distance were flashing red lights. There were hundreds of them and they lit the horizon with a mystical beauty. Richard said, “Those red lights are Windmills.” He is so smart! It was a Windmill farm.

Okay, let me interrupt my train of thought. I just looked over at the dash and it is -07 degrees out here. We are on I-80 in Wamsutta, Wyoming heading to Ohio. WOW! Talk about cold!

Getting back, after dropping our Conway load, we couldn’t find an empty trailer in Conway’s lot so we headed over to CR England to see if we could find one there. When we drop a load at a customer’s location, we pick up an empty trailer to bring to the next pickup. Ninety-nine percent of the time you must bring an empty to your pickup location. Little lesson on company policies – lol. Can you believe that there were NO empties at England either? So, we had to call the customer and get authorization to Bobtail into their facility to pickup our load. We picked up from Nestle in Springville, Utah and bringing it to Youngstown, Ohio. We are hauling Stouffer’s Pizza! Yum-yum. Nope! No goodies for us. We just haul it.

It is 22:43 hours and our plan is to stop at a Rest Stop around exit 260-ish on I-80 for the night. We have another hour and 27 which is about 90 miles before we have to be off the road. There are no truck stops in that location so a rest area it is!

Sleep tight all ~ we will talk again soon! Love Tricia & Richard