Quinlan,TX

Where did I leave off? Ok, so we finally got unloaded in Louisville and got our next load. Picking up in Danville,KY and delivering in Irving,TX. Cool, gets us back to Texas and next if we can get a run to California, then we will be set to go through Lubbock and all will be good. Got to the pick up in Danville around 0030 hours. And let me tell you, in Kentucky, if you are looking at a map and it is a skinny red line for a road, but still shows that it is a designated road, don't take it. Unless you want to drive 45 the whole way. Two line windy ass road with absolutely no shoulder. UGH!! Anyway, get there and we don't have a pick-up number? Great. Call in to dispatch and Rex, bless his heart, he is fast becoming my late night friend I am calling him quite frequently, but he can't find one and says that we will have to wait till morning. Freaking great. Then the lady there tells me they don't even have a load going to Irving. They have one going to Lewisville,TX but not Irving. Now we are all confused. Oh, and her paperwork shows that prime is picking up the load. AT this point, I am 99.9% positive that is my load and that there is just a mixup the with the paperwork, but there is nothing we can do till morning. So we head down about 1/2 a mile to a TINY truck stop and get some sleep. 0700 we get up and call to find out what the deal is. Yep, that was our load and there was a mix up with the corporate office in Chicago that placed the order with Prime. So this makes two screwed up loads in a row. I'm pretty sure this isn't the norm, and our FM apologized, but I just want the next ones to be correct and hassle free.

So, get the load and head out, we stop at a rest area in Texarkana,TX because we have time on the load. We were also going to stop by our house this morning and get the stuff to make the house payment because I left the info at home. Stop at Walmart first to get a new Microwave and I try the other one just for the shits and giggles, and it is working. WTF? So we decide to run with it and see how it does and we just run in and grab a few things. Then we head to the house and park on the side of the road and J runs to the house to get the stuff we need. Gets done and we go to turn around in a small restaurant parking lot. Now, mind you, I have turned around in this parking lot before, in a semi, but this time, for whatever reason, the power lines were lower. Actually I think it was a telephone line. Thank God I was watching out the passenger window when I saw it and I screamed STOP!!! The phone line was down between the truck and the trailer. Whew! We didn't rip it off the line! J goes and gets a broom and stands on the catwalk and pushes it up as I pull forward ever so slowly, and we make it out of there without causing any damage. The lady wasn't real happy and told J she didn't know why semi's keep turning around in her parking lot. He explained to her it was the only place large enough to turn around. And she says "but it's a private drive, this is my house" and he says "So what are these people doing in your kitchen eating and you are charging them? This is a business so it is open to the public." She didn't really like that but the patrons at the restaurant got a chuckle out of it. He then politely explained to her that if she didn't want semi's turning around, she needed to post something outside so that we would know. But, the point is that we made it out unharmed and without causing any damage. That was a good thing.

So now we are headed to our delivery. Should make it on time. It will be close, but it is 0900 now so hopefully traffic will have dies down some and we won't get stuck in it. If traffic works with us, will will make it on time.

That is our adventurous morning. Hopefully the rest of the day will be uneventful!