Ontario,CA

We made it to our drop this morning in Los Angeles but not without problems. Coming across CA last night, J got the dreaded "Check Engine" "Engine Shutdown" warnings. The truck shut down on him as he was pulling into a rest area. He checked the coolant and it was low again so we figured that was the problem. Drove the last 30 miles of the night to the TA in Barstow and called it a night till I had to get up and drive the last 113 miles to the receiver this morning. I woke up and got ready and when I started the truck, the "Check Engine" light was still on. Hmmm Not getting anything else so we head to the receiver and had plans to get a PM done when we finished and figured they could take a look at it then. Sent our FM a message to that effect and he calls us and asks if we can pick up a load first and then get the PM because freight was slow and he wants to get us a load so we aren't stuck for the weekend. Sure, no problem. As I am getting unloaded at the receiver he calls back and has a good paying load that is High Value. He says that he can get us a PM in Springfield but he doesn't want us stopping anywhere else for that since it is a High Value load. No problem but he says to check with Road Assist first about the warning lights. I call them and she has me give her the codes it is showing. She sends back to me that I need a Freightliner dealer because it is EGR and Regen codes and suggests that it would be fine to get back to Springfield for that, because of course as I was talking to her the warning lights went away, but she didn't want us on a High Value load in case something happened. OK, get back with our FM and tell him we can't take the load he wanted us to take and that sucks because it paid good. Now we are stuck here in Ontario,CA waiting for 1500 local time to roll around so we can pick up another load going to Elkhart,IN that is not High Value. He said we could route through Springfield and get the PM done there and have them check the codes so that is the plan. Really screwed us up beause we were wanting to get to the east coast for a Monday delivery then find something to Chicago to drop on Wednesday so we could take those couple of days off to see Justin graduate. Looks like we will drop this in Indiana and then get something really short to Chicago and be off an extra day or two. Not really wanting to do that because I don't want to come out in the hole, but we aren't missing his graduation. Hotel and car are already reserved. We have the money in the bank so it won't hurt us coming out in the hole, I just don't like working to catch up on the truck payment.

That is where things stand right now. Just hanging out till it is time to go pick up the next one!