I am sitting here at the yard awaiting the 9:00am arrival of the mechanic who will be servicing my truck this morning, connected through someone's nearby unsecured wireless router.
By the time the routine servicing of my truck is completed, which usually takes a couple of hours or so, and I get my load secured and ready to roll it will likely be aorund noon or so. Most states don't allow an oversized load to run on Sunday so whatever progress I make towards Memphis today will be halted until Monday morning.
I also don't yet know whether we have yet received the permits for the load. I'll find that out when dispatch arrives this morning. I am wondering if I wouldn't be better off to just hang around in the hotel until Monday morning and get a good start then. There are pros and cons either way. I suppose I'll discuss it with dispatch and find out if there's a pressing need to get this fire truck delivered ASAP. I'll let that guide my decision.
Of course if the permits haven't arrived that will make the decision for me as they won't be coming until Monday anyway. No matter, I can get on down the road a good part of the way today if need be, or I can relax in the hotel until Monday morning. I'm flexible at this point. As I just left the house a few days ago I'm not really tired, but an extra day or two of relaxation wouldn't hurt.
It would also allow me to spend some time shopping for road groceries and get my truck stocked up for the next couple of weeks. That's a big plus. I guess I'm really leaning towards the hotel at this point more than anything, but dispatch will of course have some input here. They're pretty easy to get along with and usually leave these sorts of things up to us, but they may know something about the scheduling that I don't so I can't make a decision until I speak with them.
I seem to rambling here as I sit parked in front of the garage, so I'll leave things at that for now.