Roehl Driver Check In Continued

Launch tomorrow out of St. Paul Park. I was thinking maybe I wouldn't have a load until Monday due to the holiday weekend, but was pleasantly surprised. Take MT up to Iron Mountain and exchange it for a load of tiles going to Tulsa, OK. Very nice.

 

I finally got out of there. I ended up going to Fedex to get the cargo issues taken off. At the London T/S having some lunch and waiting for a pre plan.

 

Well I am ready to go home already. I get to the shipper and can't get under the trailer even with the suspension dropped because the yard jockey dropped the trailer to low.

 

Delivered geneva..nxt buffalo to nc

 

Time to build up those arm and shoulder muscles with some cranking exercise? j/k, I tried that once and it was near impossible even in low gear (on a loaded trl). Made me wonder what good low gear even was.

Read something on another forum thread about backing up to the trl (with suspension lowered) enough to get the tractor frame under the front of the trl, then stacking dunnage between the frame and trl, then raising the suspension to lift the trl off the ground, then cranking the landing gear on the trl down until it touches the ground. Repeat with added dunnage until the trl is high enough to get the 5th wheel platform under it. Seemed like it would work if done carefully enough, remember safety is the cornerstone value.

 

At Hilltop truck stop xt 24 I-540 AR. Like this place. Going to University Park IL. Techno make sure you got cash for OK turnpike. They don't take EZ pass.

 

I sat there waiting long enough to come up with a plan. As for cranking it up I would have done that but the trailers were so close together when I tried to do that the lever was running into the trailer next to me.

 

Loves in Whitestown, IN. I am relaying this load to the terminal of despair tomorrow.

 

I80 xit 120 sapp bros. I like the sapp bros. They have 2014 rand mc atlas for $14 and has two pages of coupons..good enuf to get yur money back with a shower, soda..few other misc food items.

Drove back roads from buffalo to here..crazy cool sights but slow goin and killer hills. Seemed to.take forever.

 

Made it home yesterdy evening. Love it when a plan works out. Planners kept me close by and got me home when I needed to. Granted I only had a hour left on my clock when I got home. But made it.