Monday morning found us in West Fargo, ND dropping our hazmat load at the Con-Way yard and then heading to for Detroit Lakes, MN. As we exited from the interstate... we were both looking for the road
to make our turn...
"looking" in more ways than one!
Can you find the street?
We arrived at our pickup in Detroit Lakes, MN... at Pet Source. Here are a few random pictures of Detroit Lakes, MN...
The first one says, "Wish You Were Here"! LOL
Further into Minnesota... buffalo, frozen lakes and ice shanty's!
Stopping for the night in Oakdale, WI, I had my first experience with "snowmobile routes". Obviously they ride the snowmobiles in the north like we ride motorcycles in the south... for fun, to work, etc. I noticed all these tiny road signs along side the interstate and when we stopped at the truck stop for the night, I saw more of them. Evidently, these are known snowmobile passes and the signs caution the driver to oncoming traffic, merge, and stop.
Tuesday started out with us leaving Oakdale, WI. We left at 4:30 am to miss the traffic in Chicago, IL. We did miss the traffic but... were delayed an hour and 1/2 by a fluke little snow storm that lasted for 25 miles. Funny how a little bit of white stuff stops traffic in it's tracks!
We are hauling 42k pounds of kitty litter... natural kitty litter, that is, made from wheat! Kitties were not included, thank goodness. And we're delivering this to PetsMart in Groveport, OH on Wednesday morning.
Our appointment at PetsMart in Groveport, OH was 7:00 am and we were unloaded by 7:30am. I will give this place the "unload award"... we were no more backed into the dock and locked, when the trailer started bouncing... our kitty litter was gone and we were preplanned to pick up a load of beer at 10:00 am in Columbus, OH and take it to Waco, TX!
My job, at this point is to map out the dispatch, send the qualcomm messages, and make sure everything is secure before we leave.... for this preplan, forget all that business....
I checked the weather first! I knew TX had to be warmer than OH.... weatherman says we have 80 degrees in my near future! Yes!
Unloading kitty litter was a bit faster than loading beer. This was suppose to be a drop and hook, but someone must have dropped the ball and it was a live load. A live load that took about 3 hours.
Hauling beer comes with two pages of driver instructions. The funniest one reads, "in freezing weather conditions truck must idle at all times to keep product from freezing." Come to find out... the vibration of the engine idling is just enough to keep the liquid moving and prevents freezing. (Never knew that!)
Three hours later we have our 46k pounds of Bud Light and headed south!
The plan is to make to somewhere, TN tonight...
WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
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THATS A LOT OF BEER!!!
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