Wow... I cannot believe how time gets away from me. I was just reading my last post which I wrote twelve days ago. We have driven soooo many miles since then!
Once we left California, our eventual destination became Jacksonville, Florida, A crisis happened along the way on that trip when our a/c blower went out in humid Louisianna. We were lucky the a/c still worked in the sleeper and we were able to blow a tad bit of cool air up to the driver to make the trip bearable. Our only consolation was that at least it wasn't a hot summer day when it happened. We were able to deliver our load and then drove to the Volvo dealer to get the part. Jorge did a good job of figuring out how to replace it himself so we saved there on the labor charge we might have paid otherwise. Another good thing happened there... we finally got the noise in our truck fixed! After leaving it at the Volvo dealer in Las Vegas on our week off and getting no results for our money, the mechanic in Jacksonville found the noise and fixed it in two hours! Apparently there are four bolts that hold the turbo onto the truck. Two of the bolts on our truck were loose and the other two were missing! No wonder we were having issues! So it was back on the road for us...
The next load went from a little town called Goose Creek, SC up to near Pittsburgh, PA. The rest of the week we were in Cleveland, to Louisville, to central Indiana, and finally down to McMinnville, Tennessee. One load was going to a nuclear power plant where no dogs were allowed. We knew that when we accepted the load but we were hoping to sneak Rocky in like we do so many other places. He is usually very quiet. Little did we know, this place would be the most thorough inspection we'd ever go thru. Long story short, poor Rocky ended up getting thrown into our little bathroom for cover and thankfully must not have made a peep while they checked the truck. We couldn't believe it when they said we passed inspection and were good to go. We scratched that place off the list of places we will deliver to again since I doubt we'll get lucky twice. Never a dull moment with this job! With the last load we did, we went to a nursery where the owner of it had just built a new house and we were delivering some limestone pavers for his new pool. We ended up driving across his pasture to deliver it close to his house. We are always amazed at the situations and places we get ourselves into.
Our work being done, we decided to take a couple days off in Franklin, Tennessee to celebrate Jorge's birthday today. He and my mom share the same birthday. Don't you know the day we get here she gets diagnosed with a contagious form of bronchitis so at this point we're all hoping we don't get it. We leave here tomorrow to pick up a load of pipe that we'll take down to Winter Garden, Florida. I'm just happy that we're not up in the northeast and that we're safely out of the path of Hurricane Sandy.
Once we left California, our eventual destination became Jacksonville, Florida, A crisis happened along the way on that trip when our a/c blower went out in humid Louisianna. We were lucky the a/c still worked in the sleeper and we were able to blow a tad bit of cool air up to the driver to make the trip bearable. Our only consolation was that at least it wasn't a hot summer day when it happened. We were able to deliver our load and then drove to the Volvo dealer to get the part. Jorge did a good job of figuring out how to replace it himself so we saved there on the labor charge we might have paid otherwise. Another good thing happened there... we finally got the noise in our truck fixed! After leaving it at the Volvo dealer in Las Vegas on our week off and getting no results for our money, the mechanic in Jacksonville found the noise and fixed it in two hours! Apparently there are four bolts that hold the turbo onto the truck. Two of the bolts on our truck were loose and the other two were missing! No wonder we were having issues! So it was back on the road for us...
The next load went from a little town called Goose Creek, SC up to near Pittsburgh, PA. The rest of the week we were in Cleveland, to Louisville, to central Indiana, and finally down to McMinnville, Tennessee. One load was going to a nuclear power plant where no dogs were allowed. We knew that when we accepted the load but we were hoping to sneak Rocky in like we do so many other places. He is usually very quiet. Little did we know, this place would be the most thorough inspection we'd ever go thru. Long story short, poor Rocky ended up getting thrown into our little bathroom for cover and thankfully must not have made a peep while they checked the truck. We couldn't believe it when they said we passed inspection and were good to go. We scratched that place off the list of places we will deliver to again since I doubt we'll get lucky twice. Never a dull moment with this job! With the last load we did, we went to a nursery where the owner of it had just built a new house and we were delivering some limestone pavers for his new pool. We ended up driving across his pasture to deliver it close to his house. We are always amazed at the situations and places we get ourselves into.
Our work being done, we decided to take a couple days off in Franklin, Tennessee to celebrate Jorge's birthday today. He and my mom share the same birthday. Don't you know the day we get here she gets diagnosed with a contagious form of bronchitis so at this point we're all hoping we don't get it. We leave here tomorrow to pick up a load of pipe that we'll take down to Winter Garden, Florida. I'm just happy that we're not up in the northeast and that we're safely out of the path of Hurricane Sandy.