THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Those are pretty neat, thanks for the link moosc. Sorry I missed you at Carlisle, but I wanted to get out of the snow ASAP.

And that brings us to today... last night I drug my brakes all the way into the truckstop, but after seeing that the truck stop had a sloped area with a nice big concrete curb, I backed my trailer all the way up until the tires bumped the curb, shut off the truck and left it in gear, set the brakes on the tractor but not the trailer. I'm glad I did, I watched several trucks trying to leave this morning with their brakes all locked up lol. Before I moved the tractor I locked in the power divider and let out the clutch slowly in low gear, didn't take too much but there was a definate "PANG" as the brakes broke free on it.

After that I cruised on down to Rolesville, NC for my pickup, got there, little slow to load but I wasn't in a hurry. Headed south to 95, stopped at a Petro along the way and got my truck washed at a Blue Beacon. I wasn't impressed with Blue Beacon, to be honest. For the about same price, there is a small independent truck wash at a TA near Greensboro NC, I want to say its called Piedmont Truck Wash, maybe... anyway, they do an awesome job, and actually get out brushes and scrub your entire truck, not just sit there with a wand and spray it. But, since I'm not headed by there anytime soon the Blue Beacon had to do.

Anyone ever noticed how Petro manages to have the nastiest smelling truckstops around? And I'm not talking about the lot, I'm talking about inside. No matter which one you walk into, you are immediately greeted by the fresh scent of "Men's Restroom". It's just gross.

Eventually after stopping another time for a sub, I made it down to Dollar Tree in Savannah for my delivery.

Left there and got to my super secret parking area that I always park at down here, and that was it for today.

Stupidly, I did not book a load that picked up tomorrow nearby and delivered close to home. Of course, by the time I got down here, it was off the board. So, I'm on the lookout for something now, not exactly sure what I want or where I want to go, but I wouldn't mind a day at home if there is something headed that way.

I'm happy to see that my truck still cleans up pretty good. I really like this color, although if I ever go the glider kit route my next truck will be a green color (kind of a bright green, like how bright Schneider orange is) so it looks like the stem/leaves of a pumpkin with the orange pumpkin trailer behind it LOL.

 

microsoft paint black box thing does the trick LOL.

I've always figured there is a chance of someone on the internet that just decides for whatever reason that they don't like me and call in reporting my truck for doing something they made up just to try to get me in trouble, so I block out all numbers in pictures.

 

I will probably try to venture out that way this spring/summer - I'm still a little nervous about it because I know NOTHING of that area of the country or what kind of weather and loads to expect!

As for staying out of the Northeast, I'm trying my best!! lol. I don't mind doing PA if its in and out right off of 81, if I'm close enough that I can go through/to the OC for parking its fine by me. But unless I am running into trouble making my truck payments, I'll be ###### if I ever see NY/NJ/anything else to the north and east of that again haha.