Skate-Boarding around the U.S.

Got 2 coils on the back and pretty much crashing through Indiana to Pa on I-70. Everything that can end up on the floor did. Cabinets opening up and dumping all my clothes on the floor. Getting pretty sick of tightening the chains every 200 miles.

 

Just one side but still a pain. I can undo the straps and get my hand in there. I use ratchet binders. The rest of the ride to Allentown, PA really sucked. This whole place is like a giant bump.

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

This takes the cake. I loaded up this morning in MN headed to MS with a 10' utility trailer that you would have at home to take crap to the dump. It weighs less then 1,500 pounds and paying $2.80 a mile. The bad part is, I can't find an LTL load to go with it

 

Delivered pipe to a string site in Grady, OK. They had to keep shooing the cows away. This is a gas line they are laying through a farmers property. Pulled into the plowed dirt road and 10,000 guys started unstrapping me and rolled them up. I didn't do squat. Took about 1/2 an hour to unload me then got stuck twice in the dirt that was like a powder. The load paid really well. I guess most people don't like to take these. It was my first time so I'm sure if I ever do one again it will be a load from Hell.

Picking up yet another load of pipe in the morning heading to Williston, ND. It's funny to see everyone dead heading out after unloading instead of taking something cheap. Cooking right now for some meals before I head up. Rice Pilaf, fried onions, peppers, mushrooms and chunks of pork tenderloin. Makes 4 meals.

The place I pickup the pipe is in Shererville, IN and there's a Pilot down the road. Real small. Made the mistake of getting in the left lane to turn in and I was there about an hour and a half to fuel up.