Delivered "Line Tamer" equipment to Q3 Contracting in Des Moines, IA. Thankfully Q3 has lots of heavy equipment, and they were able to use a couple bucket loaders to lift it, and I drove the trailer out from under it. What a pain.
Collin spent the better part of the day searching for loads out; finally got a load out from ColorBiotics in Ames, Iowa. We had Cathy call, and she got us a better rate. Load of dye going to Maine.
This place ships dye all over the country, and we got set up as a direct carrier - no broker - so we will probably haul for them again if we get stuck in Iowa.
Ran our asses off all night to try to deliver the load next day, at Oldcastle Lawn & Garden in Poland Springs, Maine. We got out of Ames around 3:30pm, and were told the receiver may unload us as late as 9:00pm, so we gave it our best go. We were pretty heavy, though, and that made for slow going in the mountains - and we were going across the Appalachians. Our ETA kept getting later and later, and when we called again, we were told that it was possible to get unloaded as late as 11:00pm, because of what we were hauling. So we kept coming.
We finally arrived at 10:30 local time, and did indeed get unloaded.
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