Springfield,MO - But we are leaving!

I was beginning to wonder if we were ever going to get out of here. But we are finally about to leave.

Sunday night they called us from the Freightliner dealership and told us the truck was ready. We were surprised because the appt wasn't until 0100 and they called around 2200 to let us know it was ready. We went ahead and stayed at the hotel and the next morning we got up and headed over to get it. We weren't in a big hurry because we had to get J's TWIC card and we couldn't get it until after 0800. Once we got the truck back, we headed to the hotel but the check engine light was coming on. Not a good sign if you just picked it up from the shop. So we headed back over there and they put it on the machine and cleared out some old codes and we appear to be fine now.

We made a quick stop at Wal-Mart and from there went and checked out of the hotel. We headed over to the yard to let line-up know that we were ready for a load. He told me that we would probably be waiting till Tuesday morning, so we decided to get comfortable and take a nap. As luck would have it, our FM calls while we are trying to sleep wanting us to take a load that is being dropped off here at the yard and deliver it to Springfield,OH the next morning. I asked him how freight was out of there and he said not good. I also heard that storm is hitting OH so I told him we would pass and take our chances on waiting for something better.

Realizing that a nap was going to be out of the question since the phone kept ringing, we headed in to grab some dinner and to rent some movies. We came out to the truck and wouldn't you know, now they have another load for us, except this is a load that is a good one. We went to lineup to see if we needed to pick it up tonight or if it could wait until this morning. It was a preloaded trailer from the Kraft Caves over here and it was ready on the 11th so they wanted us to go ahead and go pick it up. Ok, take down the curtain and get the truck moving time. Luckily this place is no more than a mile and a half from the yard. So we made it over there and back pretty quickly. We dropped the trailer and then bobtailed back over to park closer to the bathrooms for the night.

Now it is around 1600 on Tuesday and I am about to wake J up so that we can get the truck washed and head out. This load isn't due until Thursday evening at 2130 in Riverside,CA so we could even leave tomorrow morning and still get there early. With plenty of time on this load, we aren't in a real rush. And knowing that we are delivering to a Wal-Mart DC means that we can't deliver more than an hour early, so why hurry? But it will get us set up for a good produce load out of the area and we should be back in a coast to coast routine.

I was a little worried about the weather last night. When we went in to eat it was cold, but when we came out, it was snowing! It was even snowing this morning when I woke up. But it was nothing but flurries and didn't amount to anything. It didn't even cover the ground. Thank goodness because I really don't want to deal with anymore snow. I realize that it IS winter, but I can definitely do without the snow when we are driving!