I'm staying in a reasonably decent motel, a Days Inn. It looks clean and reasonably well maintained. Not a five star place of course, but not a flea bag joint either. I hopped into the shower and was enjoying a nice, hot shower when I looked up at the shower head and it was covered with tiny little ants! I could see them crawling out of the seam in the plastic shower head, by the thousands. Holy shit! That was a new one on me. I can honestly say I have never in my life seen a shower head infe...

I finally put off my last two deliveries this morning. One was generator in Titusville where I had an 8:00am crane appointment. It was going to a medical center. I got there at 7:30. It went pretty quickly and I was off to Merritt Island, some 30 miles south of there. That one was... interesting. Merritt Island is a very narrow strip of land. The east side of the narrow road is all homes, mostly very expensive, and the west side is water. The road is barely wide enough for two cars to pass, b...

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I have some time to kill out here on the road and as the ac unit on my APU isn't working so my boss has paid for a room and the associated expenses. I took a cab down to a local bar and was having a good time there. At one point these local police detectives came into the bar and were talking to the bartender and one patron. Seems a guy who left earlier with a couple of ladies got himself rolled. I laughed my ass off when I found out what was going on because I had thought about that when I ...

To keep his pants up of course. It seems I'm losing weight, although I have no idea why. I haven't stepped on a scale and so have no idea how much weight I've lost, but I know I have because my clothes don't fit any more. I've had to start wearing suspenders to hold up my pants as they are very loose around my waist now. All of my shirts are also getting kind of baggy. I haven't changed my eating habits, and still enjoy a few beers here and there, and my lifestyle is pretty much the same a...

Last night I spent the evening in a peanut shells on the floor kind of saloon in Montana. I was dressed in my usual manner, boots, cowboy hat, jeans, and button up shirt. Several people in this bar kept calling me "cowboy". Now I have to admit that I just didn't know how to take that. Was it an insult? No? I just wasn't sure, but after the Nth time I was starting to get a bit annoyed by it. I guess the bartender could tell that it was getting on my nerves and came over to me. She told me t...

I finally made it back to the yard today. I delivered my load in Green Bay yesterday, picked up a truck in Oshkosh, ran it to the yard, and then spent the night there. This was yesterday. This morning I put  my truck in the shop for rooutine service, and used another truck to make ppick ups at three locations for a load I was told I would be hauling to TN. The load was a bunch of stuff and took a great deal of work to load and secure. By the time I got it back to the yard they told me th...

After killing time all weekend I will finally be hitting the road again later today. I have to go down to Greencastle, PA and pick up some truck frames heading for a painting facility in Green Bay, WI. The load won't be ready to pick up until around 1:00 PM local time and I'm only about 30 minutes away from there. For now I am just hanging out in the motel until check out time, and will then go to the truck stop to fuel up and grab a bite to eat before heading on down there. I would have p...

I was enjoying a few cold ones at the bar next door to my motel. I was having a pretty good time talking with my fellow drivers and some locals while wacthing first a baseball game and then some racing on the tv. We were all having a good time and pretty much just cutting up, telling jokes and lies. Of course I was knitting too, as is my way. At one point this guy came in, a fellow driver, and sat down at the bar a couple stools down from me. He seemed ok at first. After a bit, in the mids...

The car show ended and everyone has packed up and hit the road. Finally a vacancy at the motel. Just in time too. It's quite warm here today, predicting a high of 91 with plenty of sunshine. As the APU is out on my truck and it's against the law to idle the truck to keep cool, a room is welcome right now. It gets amazingly hot inside a truck sitting out in the sun. I've checked in and am enjoying a bit of relaxation. I'll probably wander over to the bar for a couple of cold ones after I get a...

I delivered the combine at the port in Baltimore on Thursday. It was pretty much an all day deal just getting the damn thing off my trailer but I finally was empty. I wasn't at all surprised when I was told to go to the truck stop and wait. I expected that. I headed down to the TA in Jessup, MD as it was the closest place I was likely to find a place to park. Jessup. is a shithole and always has been, every trucker who has run the East coast knows this. It's a great place to get robbed, shot,...

I'm in a hotel in Nebraska tonight. I had a few beers in the saloon and brought some dinner back to my room, some pretty good BBQ. Tasty. A short while ago I walked out of my room to get something cold to drink from the machine down the hall. When I stepped out I heard a couple in the hall laughing and obviously enjoying each other's company. Naturally I looked in that direction. I saw no-one. That was kind of weird but I just assumed it must have been coming from one of the rooms and ...

I delivered a snow broom truck to the airport in Denver Monday morning. I sat at the truck stop in Denver from Monday morning until today (Thursday) waiting for a reload. Very boring place. This morning I was sitting in the truck stop drinking my coffee and checked my phone. Two voice mails. I never even heard it ring. It was dispatch who had finally found me a load out of there. It was a military truck, an APC, heading to WY. Well, better than nothing. I ran down to Ft Carson and pick...

I finally got a call from dispatch this afternoon. "I finally found you a load, but you're not going to like it." Uh oh. "Yeah, ok, go ahead". She told me I had to go to Ft Bragg, NC and pick up a military load. Ok so far. It's going to New Jersey. Ah, there's the hook. Short run and probably not paying all that much for having sat for almost four days. Oh well, better than nothing. I moved the truck from the truck stop in Manning, SC to a different truck stop in Latta, SC which puts...

A little while ago I walked over to the c-store from the hotel and happened to glance over towards the empty lot along the way. I saw a very odd sight. There was an older guy walking across the lot carrying a dead duck by the neck. Ok, out in the woods or something that might not seem very odd, but in this setting it was a very strange sight to see. Where the hell did this guy get the dead duck? No lake around here and he wasn't carrying a gun that I could see. WTF? Just a very weird ob...