One potato, two potatoes...

I didn't know they used flakes in the process.

 

Made my first drop at McCain Foods in Plover, WI.

Taterville...

Click here for pic of trailer on elevated ramp.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/album.php?albumid=2805

 

There were a lot of May trucks here at the truck stop near the tater drop. The lady at McCains said there's a shortage of potatoes back here. The local farmers who have them are charging a premium, thus, the reason they are trucking in hundreds of loads from WA.

 

If you do a drop here, there's a trailer washout at Plover Pallet Company. When you come out past the guard shack, turn right on the frontage before the tracks. It's about 1,000 feet down on the right.

The cost is $75 for the washout. A lot of whole potatoes end up getting stuck in the trailer.

 

Got preplanned right away this morning after tater drop for beer pick up in Milwaukee tonight headed to Denver, then to Brooks for a cpl days off with my sweetness.

Needed the rest today.

 

Trucker Steve is still around and running out of Phoenix, last I heard anyways. One of my students out of Phoenix said he met him in our terminal lounge there a couple of mos ago.