Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

Not too bad a year I guess.......

 

One of those police vans with a speed cameras snap a pic of my ###,going 56 on 50 today.Watch out around Union City TN.I was passing a slow MILAN truck at the time so with a little luck he may get to pay the 50$

 

So I get home, check the mail, My Crete calander and my cabcard are suppose to be in there. NOPE.
I call Indy, they mailed it with my Christmas card?
Did I even get a card? and when did Crete ever get the cabcards that early?

I sure miss that calander, I should have stopped at a TA. I'm lost without it.

I call prorate in Lincoln, I swear it was Ben Stein with his monotone voice, he says I should give it a couple more weeks to arrive.

I explained that I'm an OTR national driver and Crete won't let me back in this area until my next home time, sometime in Feburary.
He acts like it's a big deal to get me a new cabcard.

Turns out all he has to do is fax me a copy,

I guess me being home for Xmas reset my time out days. Sort of like they didn't want to give me the full 4 days off.

Ugh, it's cold here and I need to go out and work. sigh

 

I'm in North Dakota...the last state I needed to have the entire continental 48...on a 2470 mile load to Cincinnati, from Almost Canada, Eh., WA... (Blaine)...that's going to net me a 3419 mile week. In the last week and a half I got the last 5 states I needed to have the entire continental 48, saw a good friend who I have kept in touch with, but had not seen, in nearly 16 years...

It's been a good week and a half.

 

North Dakota is a tough one to cross off. It was my last as well and I took a load in the middle of February through there to get it done

 

North Dakota took me 14 years to cross off. Now I see it every Thursday morning. Run up out of Dallas, it's an easy run and the unbearable winter weather is tolerable for about 10 hours. Every time I ran the top east to west I would always stay on I-90 due to either winter weather or wanting to avoid Minneapolis.

 

Mine was Florida of all places. I went all over the South but never crossed the state line until last year. And then it was only once.

 

whats the hometime like a crete ?

 

The same as everywhere else, catch up on the mail, do some work, watch tv, sleep, visit people, more work. Hope I didn't catch the flu. work

 

North Dakota was my last state. South Dakota was my second to last (of the 48). I still haven't gotten to Alaska or Hawaii.