Friday 23 October 2009

quick update

Well what a busy week. We left on sunday morning with a Soiux City for 6.00 am tues, which didn't give us anything to play with. After we tipped we flew over to Little Chute WI for a load of frozen pizzas. At the moment we're in Swift Current SK, in the morning we'll run back into Calgary, drop this one and pick up one for Richmond BC to tip monday morning. We had sausage rolls with brown sauce on for tea and they were so good we bought 8! for tomorow. Got stopped by a sheriff today in North Dakota, he just stood in the middle of the road and flagged me down, he did a full paper inspection on me and i passed. Tomorow night we will go as far as Golden, i'm looking forward to seeing how much snow is about as we haven't been over there for a while, but we've been able to see the mountains turning white from Calgary. Will get some pics and get them posted.

Friday 16 October 2009

North Dakota







Here are a few pics of the truckstop we parked at, in Jamestown ND. We stopped here on our way back from Wisconsin, which is where we reloaded after Waterloo. At the moment we're on a reset in Calgary until saturday night. We already have our next assignment, South Souix City NE, so we'll crack on early sunday and get to the border for 8 am. When we've cleared, i'll probably run untill about lunch time then call it a day, which will leave us a 1000kms to do on monday, then an easy run in for tuesday.


Monday 12 October 2009

snow on Rogers Pass Montana
me getting cold. same place
there is a sign just before u get here thats says
the lowest recorded temp here is -70!
Hwy 200 Missoula to Great Falls


This kitten just sat on the door with the window
down, even with the door open it didn't even try
to jump out.



Driving into a dust storm in Washington that
lasted for about 4 hours





Sunday 11 October 2009

update

After we had a week of we got a really steady run to Salem Oregon. We arrived at the delivery first thing monday to find the place deserted. So i made the call to dispatch, and it turns out the customer had moved from those premises about 5 years ago, and the shipper hadn't bothered to update the address. So we got the proper address and delivery time, which wasn't until the next morning. After we tipped we reloaded for Vancouver,in the evening, about 5 miles away, so a steady day again. Once we got loaded i was asked if i minded doing a switch with a trailer coming up from Calafornia as the driver needed to be back in BC, so i said ok, then they said great he'll be there tomorow lunch time! So we finally got away from Salem on wednesday afternoon with a drop on for Calgary at 05.30 friday morning. We tipped that and by 08.00 we were heading south again for a trailer to go to Waterloo Iowa, for sunday night, and thats where we are now. Not sure whats going to happen in the morning as its Thanks giving here, so tomorow is a public holiday, we'll just take it as it comes.

Friday 2 October 2009

Back to work

Well were at the end of our week off, and what a great week its been. Had plenty of beer, done lots of suffering. Bought a car. Got a full safety bonus from work, which means i've done the miles required without incident. Got all the defects on the truck fixed, so all in all a good week. Spent a couple of hours this evening getting all the gear back in the truck. The load we've been given is for Portland Oregon, which is a good scenic drive. We have also had reports this week, of snow in Montana, British Columbia and Idaho, so we could be playing in snow pretty soon.