Climate Express

Nah, not today. They did get me empty in 30 minutes though an hour before appointment.

Headed to Midwest to pickup a load going to Northfield, MN for a Sunday night delivery. Hoping the weather will cooperate enough that I can time out my recaps to make it to MN by 4am or so and then shut down for a 34, but we'll see.

 

They told me when I was there that they couldn't get parts for that style of tails anymore. So when they were no longer fixable they were gonna be removing them.

 

Update: Weather did not cooperate at all. Took 10.5 hours to get from Holts Summit to Pontoon Beach and up to Eolia, MO. A couple pileups has had I-70WB shut down around Warrenton, another has had Wentzville area at a standstill, dozens of single car wrecks, a pileup on 370, a dozen or so 2-3 car wrecks. Was a bit apocalyptic lol.

 

Ah, I typed my message at the same time you did lol. Certainly a bad day to be having coolant leaks and APU issues. I-70 was a disaster earlier -- you got stuck with the aftermath, sadly. I was there right at the beginning of the disaster, so I squeaked through before the shutdowns and made a little progress today. I think I made it far enough to squeak in a 34 and run it straight through Sunday

Around MM192, there was a tractor trailer jacknifed perfectly perpendicular and then a few more trucks and 5 or 6 cars in ditches for that same pileup. I'm sure the one eastbound was from rubbernecking at that one. Frontage road near the Warrenton Flying J was at a standstill from people spinning out trying to get up a hill.

Hopefully your coolant leak is just a simple gasket or fitting or something that they can get patched up in a hurry. Be careful wherever ya end up making it tonight. This refreeze wasn't as bad as the ice storm a few weeks ago, but it was certainly slick. I took a deep breath once I made it here

 

The petro at albert lea has a place called SKOL in it. It's a killer restaurant. Then north west of the cities there's a petro 2 slash holiday travel center that's real nice. Has a good restaurant an bakery. They have fritter bread an doughnuts that are as big as your head.

 

The coolant leak is probably just a bad hose off the back of the apu. Had that happen to one of our trucks when we were there.

 

Whenever skirts get messed up they just cut em off. I never seen them replace any skirts. Never could understand why ya order stuff with aerodynamics to get better fuel mileage an then not replace it when it goes bad.