An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Naw, left home April 11th.

 

The impressive part of this number, that is the total actual miles I drove in May. If you subtract around 100ish miles off of that for the drive between where I picked this load up and where I stopped last night. The impressive part is, my paid miles were 12578...which means that I only drove 350-375 OOR for the entire month. Not a bad out of route percentage...I hope they're satisfied with my performance, or maybe it's my performance that allows them to put up with my occasional hissy fits and temper tantrums.

 

Managed 692 miles today. If there were a truckstop within 10 miles(east) of N. Platte, NE I would have had enough time to cross the 700 mile mark, but here I stay for a 34. Only have 4.5 total hours left on my 70 thru tomorrow night. Planning on dropping my 1st stop off on Wednesday before calling it a night then finishing off the 2 remaining stops on this load on Thursday before noon.

 

Things are about to get interesting here in N. Platte

 

The wind even took out the construction fence

 

When I first started seeing those goofy looking Tesla pickups, I thought to myself, those are the ugliest things on the road....but I saw one that was customized yesterday. It was painted baby blue with that fake wood on the side like an 80's Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth minivan...

 

2 am, eyes pop open without an alarm...I am on a 34, why am I up this early...3 am, eyes still open...4 am, I brew coffee and decide that going back to sleep is out of the question. While that's brewing, I gather my dirty laundry and head into the truckstop. Maybe some of my former dispatchers (who served in the Marines) have rubbed off on me.

 

My APU is still having charging issues (and has 2 red LEDs on inside the enlosure.) And it shows on the inverter controller that it's only putting out 13.6 volts, and has issues running my little microwave over 5 minutes again. There is a new alternator on it. And they said they checked all the batteries individually, and cleaned all the terminals. But I found something that might be a problem. This is the big breaker between the inverter and the batteries