Parked Here for the Night

In Hammond, IN getting loaded, because Roadrunner load cancelled. Delivers in Denver Monday morning. Should be west bound and down shortly.

 

My life was just fine until that ####### movie "Fargo" came to the screen....







I have to pm you tomorrow sometime Red..concerns the National Security Of The Free World...Ooops. "That" is for someone else...going to check out ecigs though!! I'll see if your old PM is still in my archives 1st though.

 

LOL.. now the series on FX, loosely based on the movie.

I elected to forego work in the name of safety today. Saved $50 by meeting my glass guy out at the ATL Petro to get a brandy new windshield to catch rocks with. Sort of a forced savings, as meeting him was the only way to get one done right now instead of next week some time. The last one made it about a week before I got a chip down near the cowl. For the last few months the crack was creeping straight up and now obvious enough for an over-zealous inspector to notice.

Then I tore into my apu in the driveway and found that I'm still awesome with diagnosing electrical problems. Symptoms suggested a dirty or loose connection for main power inside the crusty apu engine case. Barely visible was a ground stud with a main cable and about six more with crimp connections, all covered with barnacles. So, off with the bottom case half and... Jackpot! The main ground cable was holding on by about 2 remaining strands of wire and came apart with just a light pull. It might have lasted another 7 years if the installer hadn't cut halfway thru it when stripping the insulation to put the lug on the end.

Got that all cleaned up and was about to start on the 12V+ side and a thunderstorm ended my work shift early. I'll get back under it in the morning when it's dried out and finish the job. One of these days I'm gonna call Thermoking and find out how much a lower case half costs, in order to justify not buying a new one, ever. Then cuss every time I have to take it apart to fix something LOL.

Funny thing about that is, I don't mind all that so much when I'm lounging in the bunk on a hot summer day with 50º air blasting out the vents with the fuel sipping apu putt-putting away underfoot. Today sure beat the crap out of installing a bunk heater fuel pump a few months ago, in -5º Oak Grove, MO at night. At least holding the flashlight was easy. Just spit on it and stick it to the frame LOL

 

Speaking for myself I've noticed: I'm slowly turning into one of those "old guys" I used to laugh at..'It's to hot..it's to cold'..Logging crew for me Monday running the skitter..they cut the logs and I run to where they cut when done-choke chain the logs-and drag em to loanding zone using the skitter where (sometimes) I then use the truck picker to load on truck..Hope it ain't hot but if it is-the trick is-don't let the youngsters see ya suffer..

Well..time to do "home stuff". Hell am I doin here anyway? I know...right??

 

Welp pulled the yellow at Dunn NC . Pilot at exit 75 off I95

Put in another yet productive day 10:58 minutes 658 miles ... lol
I have got to stop cutting so close .
maybe wake up around 1 ish and roll down to southern GA then deliver on monday afternoon. ..

 

Set the Jakes at the Loves in Hudson, Co. Woke up this morning with a sinus cold. So now time to self medicate and get a 34 hr in and deliver this load in Denver first thing monday morning.

 

I hate sinus colds !!!

Wish I could pull off a 34 before my delivery . I really have some crap for hrs coming back for a day or to , but oh well i'll figure it out . Lol

#'s are one thing I really just never liked , and well now I have realized that I better get to like them. Its all on playing that clock .

Welp time to roll !!!!!!

 

Is this thread similar to the "Where Are You"? I post there constantly but I don't disclose the exact location of where I am... I may write that I am at a rest area or truck stop in this or that state... I have met a few members of this forum... Thanks to that thread... Only a few though... And that's ok... I don't need to become very popular anyway....

Ohh yeah... And tonight I am not parked anywhere... The truck is at the Freightliner shop and I am at a hotel in Ontario, CA...

 

So you're the guy who woke everyone up.

 

At the TA in Terrell, TX. It amazes me how ####### lazy drivers are. Tons of regular parking spaces and guys are double parking near the front. Sad.