Climate Express

That's fine with me. On night time deliveries, I like to rack up the detention pay lol. The Walgreens in Windsor got me out in an hour and a half and only 30 minutes after appointment today. They put subject to count on the stamp on the bills, so maybe they've changed their piece by piece policy, or at least on Hershey loads. Got loaded in Elkhorn in 30 minutes, dropped at Midwest and picked up the reload, and now at the truck stop 60 or so miles down 67. No idea how to describe it other than the middle of nowhere on the east side of the highway. I'm sure you've stopped here before. Pretty lucky and efficient day today with warehouses -- 550 miles, 2 pickups, 2 drops all in 13 hours.

Where do they have you headed?

 

I think it was about 20-30 minutes if I remember correctly.

 

Yeah, those 3-400 mile loads on Mondays are a little bit of a rough way to start the week. Far enough that it's usually a return load to STL and close enough that it's usually a bit of time wasted on the day.

Guessing you had some kind of drop and hook yesterday back in Climate territory lol?

I'm sitting 50 miles away until my delivery tonight in Houston. Hoping it'll be an Orange rubber load tomorrow morning. Would allow me to deadhead out of Houston for the night and then have good, easy miles tomorrow, but we'll see. Hoping that the fact I'll be getting back to STL area on a Friday means that I'll get a 'money load' going out to CO for the weekend. Will be a bit of a short paid week this week, but hoping I'll be able to roll over 1000 or so miles to next week to even it out. If I was a betting man, I'd guess it'll be an Atlanta load they let me take through the house unrequested or a Sunday evening/Monday morning TX load.

 

The drive going into unload area in 1st pic. 2nd pic is me delivering feed for some wyoming cattle that'll be arriving at this ranch in 3 weeks for the winter. Was a really Scenic nice run. Never been that far west on 20 in Nebraska and wyoming. Plans fell through for going to Washington so I reloaded in South Dakota and I'm headed to Wisconsin.

 

20 is a nice little run. Nebraska is surprisingly pretty once you get off of 80, even in the eastern half. Lots of great mom and pop truck stops and cafes with gravel lots along the way too. We used to run Bomgar loads across 20 all the time and I loved it. Little enough traffic to let faster trucks pass on the 2 lane stretches as well