Oh Hayl No!

Delivered lumber to Frank's Service in San Luis, Arizona, where we could have walked across the border into Mexico, then drove to El Centro, California to pick up more hay from Preece Farm, bound for Boyd, Texas.

This load out was the longest we have ever experienced. First the squeeze machine was 2 hours late, then it was a bit of a three ring circus with two squeeze loaders trying to load three trucks at once. Then the young squeeze driver pushed a bale off the front of our trailer, which compromised the integrity of the whole front stack, and it took two hours to figure out what to do. We ended up removing about 18 bales to stabilize the front stack.

We were running so late that Brent, our customer who happened to be there to watch the loading operation, gave us permission to not tarp, since the weather was supposed to hold good for an overnight run. We were pretty stressed, since we had to pick up our next load by 6:00pm the next day, and we were going to have to run straight through at close to max speeds in order to make it on time.

After hauling ass and getting routed around a fatal accident in Odessa, Texas where a four wheeler looked like it had been rolled into a burrito under a big rig, we arrived in Boyd at Southwest Hay Exchange about 3:00pm, and found out that we needed to be at our reload by 5:00pm, not 6, and we still had to get unloaded, then drive 30 miles to drive in DFW rush hour traffic. We called the shipper, who told us we could get loaded on Saturday morning. Whew. That took the pressure off.

We hung out at the Love's in Rhome while to traffic died down, got some tires we bought from Brent installed and took showers, then drove to Sabre Galvanizing in Alvarado, Texas.