1 week out, 1 week to go!

Well, I've been out for a week now and it's been a good week.

I left the house on Wednesday morning and went and hooked to my trailer and waited for a load. My DSR (driver service rep.) told me there wasn't much freight in my area, but she would let me know as soon as she had something for me. It didn't take long. At 9 am, I got a load that picked up just 2 miles from where I was parked. The only issues were that it didn't ship until 3 pm. I tried to call the shipper to see if it would be ready sooner, but the phone number listed for them was disconnected. I asked my DSR for a working number, but the number I got was to someones voice mail. I also tried calling 411, but that had no listing for the shipper either. So much for trying to pickup early. I just took a nap and went to the shipper, which happened to be a mattress company at 2:30 pm.

There was a preloaded trailer for me in a pothole filled dirt lot. Yeah! The holes in that lot were HUGE! Even though I went really slow, it didn't matter, things went everywhere in my sleeper.

I got my loaded trailer and headed out of Denver towards Gary, IN. I got up I-76 and across I-80 to a rest area just past North Platt, NE and stopped for the night. I ran into some really heavy rain as I left CO.

Thursday morning I continued east making a stop at the Walmart in Lexington. That's a really truck friendly Walmart. Lots of truck parking.

When I got back in the truck I had a message telling me that I was relaying my load to another driver so he could get home. The relay point was Aurora, NE. I had about 100 miles to go to get there. I got to the Loves truckstop at about 10:15 am and ended up waiting till about 12:30 pm for the relay driver to get there.

We swapped trailers and I ended up getting a load right out of that town going to Lubbock, TX. It was a dog food factory and you could smell it from miles away. Not a bad smell, just a dog food smell.

I was directed to drop my trailer in a row of trailers right across from from where they were doing construction. There was absolutly no way I was going to be able to stick my trailer anywhere on that row. I found a yard driver and asked him what I was supposed to do and he was pretty good about it. He moved a trailer from a spot I could get into so I could use it. Sometimes it pays to just ask someone for help, instead of risking hitting something.

I got my load and headed south through KS and into OK. The rain was incredible. I found out later that there had been some tornados in the area. From what I saw, I believe it.

I delivered the load to a grocery distribution center in Lubbock, TX on Friday afternoon with no issues. It was over 100 degrees there. Ouch!

More to come.

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