Caledonia Haulers out of Minnesota

They only record the outside of the truck. It's a wide angle lens of each side of the truck. I like it because if someone sideswipes you, you have proof that it wasn't your fault when it otherwise could be hard to prove.

 

Came off home time and had to get up to Caledonia for some maintenance. My truck needed a new PTO pump and some other things this week so instead of sitting around in Caledonia while they worked on it they offered to give me a spare truck to run a load while I wait. I went down to Eddyville, IA and picked up going to La Crosse, WI. Delivered it this morning (and got completely soaked, didn't think about bringing any rain gear in the spare truck lol) and then headed back to Caledonia. Waited for maybe an hour or two and my truck was done. I was delighted to see they washed it for me while they had it and they even washed my floor mat too.

I asked about going west but unfortunately they either didn't care or didn't have anything going west at the moment because now I'm heading to Adairsville, GA. My dispatcher wasn't in today so I'll ask again about going west after I deliver this one. At least it was preloaded for me in Cedar Rapids.

 

I hooked up to my loaded trailer in Cedar Rapids and stayed the night there last night. When I woke up, I had a message that the delivery got rescheduled a week out and to hook up to a different loaded trailer going to Chambersburg, PA. I didn't complain because I'd rather go anywhere other than Georgia lol.

The traffic is definitely most of it. The cities are all really close together so you get less of a break between traffic jams and even when you're out of the cities there's constantly cars and other trucks passing you (and cutting you off after they do, most of the time). Not only that but the truck stops get full a lot earlier in most places on the east coast. Going out west is much more peaceful. Traffic is more spread out between the cities and there's way more distance between the cities. A lot of the cities don't have terrible traffic to begin with. It's only when you get out to the really big cities like LA, SF, Portland, Seattle etc. where you deal with the really bad traffic but to me the drive out there is worth dealing with that especially when you head straight back out with your next load.