other dog

I don't remember, but probably a Volvo.

The first trip to Beaver Springs was one of my favorite stories, I guess it's "old hat" now!

The weight of the pallets vary some, they weigh each pallet and write the weight on the plastic with a sharpie. This load was 26 pallets and the total weight was not quite 47,000 lbs. This should have been a C.H.Robinson load, because it was definitely "cheap and heavy." The load going out paid good, about $3600 to the truck, the lava rock only paid a little over a dollar a mile. Should have left them out there and deadheaded to Blytheville and gotten a good load, would have paid about the same.

I uh...er...oh, I know, I know- I didn't have time!

Yeah, I tried for years to get a decent drive-by picture of it, but never could.

they had a big one where I unloaded in New Mexico, but they didn't use it. They unloaded one beam at a time with a little fork lift.

Got the rocks loaded, strapped, and tarped, headed north on I-25 back to I-40- Headed back east- More old units- More old units- it would have been nice to stop here too. The original load of rocks going to Hagerstown, Md. that I was supposed to load got canceled, and I sat out in the street for about 5 or 6 hours until they got another load there, going to Columbus, Ohio. So by the time I got loaded I had to get as far as I could in the time I had left. The last picture I took before the battery died-

Train- Nice! You'd almost expect to see Wile E. Coyote up there somewhere- Old truck next door to the place where I delivered the beams- At the lava rock getting place- A load of lava rock- waiting on that last pallet. A hand full of lava rocks. I think they just use them for landscaping, but they seem to be real popular.

More old trucks. I was hoping to make Amarillo Saturday night, but I didn't quite make it. I was going to stop at the Big Texan. Several people have said that it wasn't that great anyway, but it would have been nice to experience it one time.

Some pictures I took going to New Mexico- i'll start off with this girl on her phone in that red car- Some old trucks on I-40 in Arkansas- they've been sitting there for a long time. Nice flame coming out of the stacks. More golden fields- I probably shouldn't have taken pictures of golden fields, to conserve battery power,eh? Neat looking old store and gas station. More old trucks. Now that's a beautiful place!

Yeah, I loaded in Albuquerque going to Columbus, Oh, then out of Follansbee, W.V. right back to Madison Heights, Va. Madison Heights is right across the James River from Lynchburg, and it's also the crime capital of central Va.-It might be the crime capital of the world, I don't know. The load going out paid good, It was over $3600 to the truck, but the load to Columbus did not pay all that good- a little over $1600 to the truck, and it was 1500 miles.

Well, a steak would be OK, but i'd just as soon have a good hamburger as a steak myself. I t was just that $21 for a pizza sucked. A medium thin crust Pizza Hut pizza- you can get a nice steak for that kind of money, but they kind of had me in a tight spot. I didn't even ask how much it was when I ordered it, I was expecting it to be expensive- like about $10!

Yeah, $25 I gave the girl that brought the pizza, and I only ate half of it.

Me too, that's where I was hoping to get to. I've passed by before but never stopped, but this time I was gonna do it. I made it to the 66 mile marker in Tn. Friday night, and Amarillo looked doable on the map, but the seam in the atlas must have thrown off my eye-balling calculations. I ran 731 miles Saturday and was still an hour away. I could have gotten there Monday night, but it would have been about 9:30 pm and I was hot and tired and needed a shower so I just stopped in Tucumcari. Went to a Quality Inn there and there was no restaurant close by. I ended up calling Pizza Hut delivery, got a thin medium pizza and a bottle of water-$21 and some change! Ain't this a bitch again!.. way out here and instead of getting a nice steak for that kind of money, I get a Pizza Hut pizza like you can get anywhere.

Yep, the speed limit is 75 in New Mexico and Texas, and on the turnpike in Oklahoma, so I set my cruise control on 77. I set in on 73 the rest of the way, so yeah, you can definitely cover some ground out here!

I took a lot of pictures, but unfortunately my camera says "battery exhausted". So, I won't be able to take any more. I used it up when I set it on "burst" when I was passing by the truck bone yard in Moriarty that Brocky was talking about. I just held the button down all the way by there. Here's a few crappy pictures that I took with my phone- it's a great phone, not so much as a camera. It's an old Motorola flip phone. Entering New Mexico- Sun coming up this morning- Something or other- I unloaded yesterday morning in Bernalillo and went about 20 miles south to pick up the load going to Hagerstown. I was in position to get loaded and they said the load was cancelled- Ain't this a bitch! So I pulled out in the street and sat there about 5 1/2 hours until they found another load- loading right there at the same place. This one is going to Columbus, so that will put me right over close to Sharon or Pittsburgh so I can get a load of coils Thursday or Friday and get back to Lynchburg. I'm someplace in Missouri now- I only got to Tucumcari last night, but I covered some ground today, about 740 miles. I'm in St. Robert,Missouri, that's where i'm is.

I sampled this BBQ sauce and bought a couple of bottles. It was good, but nothing spectacular. Because there are so many different brands of barbecue sauce now- they're all pretty much the same, except for some slight differences.

I've only seen a few wimmins in cars, they've all been going too fast to get a picture.

I was hoping to make it to Amarillo yesterday, but I was about an hour away when I ran out of time. I wanted to stop at the Big Texan, but I had to settle for a burger and fries in McLean,Texas- good burger though. I wouldn't even attempt the 72 ouncer at the Big Texan, but about a 16 ounce ribeye would have been no problem. I knocked out 731 miles yesterday.

Bernalillo

Oh. And thank you, thank you very much.

I'm going to take 460 to 81 to 40- and go west!

Nothing yet, dispatcher Wayne is working on it though. He found a load to Chicago but turned it down because it only paid $1.25 a mile. He said he was working on a load from somewhere in Arizona to Richmond that paid $1.50 a mile, i'd take that.