Another Long, Boring Day

DATELINE: LOUISVILLE, KY, 8:12 p.m.

Miles Today: 518

Today was another ho-hum day of drive, drive, drive for 8 hours, deliver my load, wait for my next pickup assignment, get it, drive 2+ hours to get there, drop & hook, drive a mile to my overnight campsite. At least it was bright and sunny all day. It did feel good to drive the familiar highways of my hometown & state for the first hour of today's shift. Now I can't wait to get home next week for a few short days off.

My delivery today was in Mt. Sterling, KY. After that, dispatch sent me here to Lousiville to pickup my next load. I love how they give me the assignment after 3:30 with a pickup appointment of 5:00, and I'm 115 miles away. But it wasn't a problem being late. Since I was approaching the end of my shift, I was wondering where I would spend the night. Fortunately, I passed by a yard of a trucking company that USA has a relationship with within a mile of my pickup site. (The same company that lets me park my truck at their yard near my home when I get time off.) Bingo! A place to set up camp. So here I am, filling you in on today's details.

Tomorrow I will take this new load to USA's new terminal in Spartanburg (UGH! Those of you who know me will understand that exclamation.) SC. I haven't been to that state during this career yet, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to use up the rest of my alloted 70-hours-in-8-days to get there, so I'll be sitting through another 34-hour reset there. I hope they have lots to keep me entertained (a drivers' lounge with big-screen TV would be nice, plus well-stocked vending machines). I'll tell you all about it in tomorrow's update.

For now, I'm pretty beat, so it's time to hang up. Thanks for eyeballing my missives, keep those comments coming, and keep on truckin'.