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Post by jerbear on Jul 18, 2015 21:36:55 GMT -5
Been on a driving trip and some places we go have no cell or internet. Gonna be in the mountains between Colorado and New Mexico for a few days.
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Post by rah on Jul 19, 2015 2:48:44 GMT -5
Have a great time Jer. I'm heading the other way. Deliver at Ayre, MA Monday at 13:00.
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Post by jerbear on Jul 23, 2015 17:02:04 GMT -5
Made it to Farmington, NM right now and going to Roswell tomorrow and look for space aliens. Been wonderful weather up around Taos and very wet for them. However, on the west side of the continental divide it is still extremely dry. Enjoying ourselves and meeting people. I'll post photos and things after we get back.
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Post by rah on Jul 24, 2015 5:04:30 GMT -5
Devastating here in Indiana. Driving up I-69 and over on US 224 it is really ugly in the fields. Square miles of corn and soybeans drowned out. What isn’t gone is severely stunted. It seems my area in central Indiana got less than the Hoosiers north and south of us but it’s pretty clear that the exceptionally wet spring and summer this year have resulted in a disaster for most Hoosier farmers.
As drove east in Ohio along US 30 the fields finally started looking the way they should this time of year.
The Vineyards up along lake Erie in PA and NY look to be doing fine to my untrained eye.
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Post by rah on Jul 25, 2015 22:48:15 GMT -5
I’ll be driving my Freightliner Cascadia Evolution with a DD15 engine pulling a 53′ refer with a load 43,000 lb load of Nestle’s product the 610 mi. to Elkton, MD leaving at 01:30 tomorrow morning. Elkton is in the NE part of the state a little too close to Newark, NJ for my liking. No back haul scheduled yet but odds are I’ll be going into NJ for what ever they come up with.
Years ago I could have diverted and gone through Gettysburg in US 30, The Chambersburg Pike going in and the York Pike going out, but that is no longer an option. Did it several times late at night or even during the day during the winter. But now days the DOT and PA state troopers are all over it and trying is just asking for a ticket.
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Post by jerbear on Jul 26, 2015 18:04:28 GMT -5
I have never been on drove upon such long and straight highways before like 380 out of Roswell to Plains, Texas. Beautiful in it's own way full of fields and as flat as far as the eye can see. Saw some standing water in some fields. I didn't realize there are some huge wind farm arrays way out here as well. I thought of George and all those miles he drove. I'd like to spend a month driving the lone roads and seeing the countryside someday with momma when she can take off from work.
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Post by rah on Jul 28, 2015 2:50:18 GMT -5
Did you see the planted Cadillacs?
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Post by rah on Jul 28, 2015 3:14:32 GMT -5
BTW I just got in early this Tuesday morning. Picked up 40,000 lbs of sliders. That frozen little hamburger patties for White Castle yesterday (Monday) at 13:00 EDST. Picked them up from a warehouse right off the docks under the Walt Whitman bridge in Philadelphia, PA. Looks like they'll be calling me to go out again later today so it's off to bed.
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Post by rah on Jul 28, 2015 16:58:53 GMT -5
Off again! This time to Denver, PA with a load of Nestle's. Slept plenty today and will be driving all night. Denver is just a little SW of Reading and I deliver there at 07:30 Wed. Then take a break and see what kind of back haul they have for me to bring me back Thursday.
I still have all of my two weeks vacation but one day. They won't allow us guarantee drivers to take vacation until Sept. 1st or later because we're so busy.
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Post by jerbear on Jul 28, 2015 17:07:02 GMT -5
Oh yea, we stopped by there last year and it was muddy. The Cadillacs have been gutted over the years. I remember as a kid they were pretty well intact, but now they are rusted body hulks that people spray paint. I need to get those photos up and posted so ya'll can see some of our sites.
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