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I talked to a friend of mine yesterday he loaded out of the port in Norfolk it took him almost over 4 hours to get to 295

 

The I64 bridge/tunnel out of Newport News is always horrendous. Better to take I664 from the south if you can get around over there...

 

Good thing I didn't realize that was you; I already stayed up through the first 3 hours of my break! If we started BSing I probably would have got 3 hours sleep instead of 5 lol. Bummer on missing the free coffee though. I was up at 0500 eastern and would have upped the ante and bought you some delicious breakfast buffet at the Petro!

Made it with 4 minutes left today! So if we average it out...

 

i usually take 460 to escape the 757.. yeah you gotta go thru little towns but never do you have the headaches going back up 64....

 

Atta boy Brian! Hopefully you get out of Keasby in a decent rate of time, I've heard they had a mandatory evacuation of Hoboken, Jersey City & The Jersey Shore points, good luck with traffic trying to get get home. I'm on my way out to Dunmore, PA for Monday morning & by the looks of weather.com com it may be a bumpy & wet ride once I get out past Milton. Some friends of mine from high school that live in NYC posted some pictures trying to cross the GW and it looked like a circus of epic proportions. Be safe all & have a good weekend.

 

Not even the threat of a hurricane can speed up the folks at Wakefern! I did however get home at 1300 Saturday, got in my car and got the old lady in it, and drove back up to North Jersey (Butler, unbeknownst to her), to pick up her 2012 Focus, and got back home at 8, before Irene got too irate!

Now getting loaded at Cloverleaf for Elizabeth, "leave by 1400" uh huh...

 

Oh yeah, ran 202 all the way up to 287 for the first time on the way to Butler, then ended up running to same route Monday in the truck to pickup in Union! The trial run in the car was a help for sure.

Also Husker, NJTP SB was light Saturday believe it or not!

 

That's kinda goofy for Cloverleaf to be late getting those Elizabeth loads out, heck I'm usually out of there before the appointment time rolls around. Did you get much rain from that little episode in that part of the world? I delivered Monday AM in Dunmore, PA and when I checked in the guys said it might be a little while since he was short handed because people weren't showing up because of the storm. It didn't really look like that area got much of anything, I think the worst I saw was a couple of branches laying on the side of the road on my way up 81. How is that Focus? When they first came out I wasn't terribly impressed with them, but this newer model is actually pretty sleek.

 

Well in Cloverleaf's defense that was partially our fault. I was on my way to a 1300 at NWIP this morning when I got the beep that I was picking up from Cloverleaf at 1300 also. Got into NWIP's door by 1230 but they didn't get me out 'til 1400 so of course then I was late. I tried to check in while I was in NWIP's door so they could hopefully line me up but predictably the shipping office wasn't interested in that. They were pretty busy. I was curbed along with several others for about an hour. But once I hit the door they were on it, business as usual.

We got a ####ETON of rain! Over 6" in Philly. Manayunk had some of the most impressive Schuylkill flooding. No issues on Monday for us though. As you probably heard NY, NJ, and VT and/or NH got the worst of it with the rain. 287 north of 80 fell apart as did a big section of I-90 between Syracuse and Albany. My buddy at Gypsum said it was a real circus for them, running 81 to 88 as the detour, and they don't let you pull two 48's on the detour haha.

Love the Focus. Were were looking at the Elantra more initially, but I'm not quite sure what happened. I liked the Elantra's curves, but I think Brenda finds the Focus chiseled like a man (other than me), Ford ran a special, and the Focus uses sexier technology. Dual dry clutch automated manual tranmission, 12:1 compression on 87 octane thanks to direct injection, and radiator shutters oh my! Drove so far to get it because an SEL with nothing on it is a needle in a haystack. Plenty of similarly equipped with options SE's but I wanted dual zone climate control for the same price. Went with a Sterling Gray Metallic sedan. Yeah I lost the hatch battle, but the sedan is actually 7 inches longer for the trunk so either way you get ample cargo room. My dad also jumped to the dark side in the past week, after raising me right on GM, and bought an '07 sedan to replace his oil burning Civic.

 

some of us running the northeast this week found out how much of a circus it was. through the life of christ still dont understand why i got put on a load from Buffalo out of Albany!!!! that i wouldve been late on regardless of the weather or closures... i had to run 84 to 87 to get to albany monday night, i had to take 88 down to 390 to get to Buffalo tuesday night so yeah not very much fun but ive heard that they have opened it back up so hopefully all things back to normal