Friday, November 20, 2009

Hi All, I made it from Florida to Council Bluffs, Iowa and swapped a full trailer for an empty and then drove 162 miles to Sioux Center,Iowa (not Sioux City) to pick up a load of bacon that goes to Indianapolis, Indiana today. I will pick up a load in the morning that runs to Spanish Fork, Utah. It's down by Provo. I will have to stop at our terminal in West Valley, Utah for a winter safety meeting and fuel. I will be driving through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and then into Utah and it is winter now and I will be on I-80 for the most part of this trip. I-80 has been closed about 6 times so far this winter due to bad ice storms and blizzard white out condition's. It gets so windy out on that stretch of I-80 that with just a light dusting of snow, you can be blown off the road. so you all know that I'm thrilled to make that run at 80 thousand pounds. I have a hard enough time with my Volvo to keep in slow on dry mountain roads. Got a message sent to me today, that says to have 3 day's of food and water with me and to run full fuel tanks. When the highways & interstates shut down, fuel trucks can't get in to fill the stations up so everyone runs out of fuel. NO FUEL=NO HEAT. Thank goodness I have a gas BBQ on board. I'll have heat and hot dogs.
I hope you are all safe and well.
Enjoy my glamor shots!
Jeff

Foot note to Lori & Al. I've been thinking about those men you saw in Barcelona and I now do all my driving with the same outfit on.

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