After sitting around since Monday afternoon I am finally loaded and on my way to Texas. I picked up the pavement roller at a road construction site. I had to just park and detach on the shoulder while trying to not get run over by the idiots whizzing past much faster than the posted work zone speed limit.
Once I was detached the guy pointed to the roller and said "There she is." I told him that's great and that everything was ready for him to drive it onto the trailer. "What?" he asked, "you're not going to do it?"
I informed him that I am a truck driver not a heavy equipment operator and that if he wanted me to haul the thing he'd best get hopping and get it onto the trailer. I told him I would do my job and guide him on. He wasn't happy and I think he was more than a little nervous about driving the thing onto the trailer. I told him to not look at the trailer and to just watch me and everything would be fine as I've done this hundreds on times before.
Once it was on the trailer I reattached, chained it down, and looked around for the best place to get turned around. I spotted a small cross road about a half mile down that looked like it would do nicely if I could time it right with the traffic. I crept along the shoulder until just before the cross road and then just waited and watched the traffic.
I finally got the break I was looking for and shot out onto the road, across to the wrong side, effectively blocking the whole road, and backed into the cross road so I could pull back out again going the other way. I was then on my way.
I made it South of Colorado Springs before the local rush hour really got going good, at which point I pulled off into this small truckstop to allow the rush hour idiots to get their dangerous foolishness out of their systems while I sit safely parked.
I should be able to make it the delivery near San Antonio around mid-day or early afternoon on Friday, which hopefully will still allow enough time to grab a reload, assuming he has one lined up by then. Of course that greatly hinges upon the lack of Murphy's Law kicking in between here and there.