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DATELINE: WEST MEMPHIS, AR, 11:15 p.m. CDT

Miles Today: 623

Quick update tonight...long workday...tired...must get to bed.

Woke up at 6:00 EDT in Vandalia...sent in "Back to work message"...went back to sleep while waiting for load assignment...3-1/2 hours later sent message to dispatch asking for ETA of assignment...reply: "Call me, assignment message to you (me) must have been lost in the ether."...called...pickup 30 miles north in Sidney, OH, load going to Irving, TX...drove up to Sidney...drop-and-hook pickup...stopped at rest area 30 minutes later...trailer brake problem when trying to leave rest area...called Breakdown department...waited for mechanic from Vandalia terminal to drive up to help me out...brakes fixed and back on road after 90-minute delay...drive, drive, drive rest of day to get here, using up all of my 11 driving hours for the day...arrived 10:30 p.m. CDT...now it's bedtime.

Thanks for reading...send comments...keep on truckin'. Nighty-night.