Delivered steel coils to Spokane Culvert in Airway Heights, WA, then spent some time searching for loads, and found one from Progresso Farms in Othello, WA - onions bound for Maryland.
Very slow loading process, it took better than two hours. Tarping was problematic, since you are supposed to let the air flow over the onions, but yet keep them dry, and we knew we were going to run into rain on the long trip. We secured the sides pretty well, stretched the back flap over the long straps to make a kind of tail, and left the front rolled up and opened out. We didn't have to button it up until Indiana.
We delivered the onions to AAA Foods in Jessup, Maryland, three days later, and then drove to McLean, Virginia to spend the night in the Best Western. We walked to a nearby Sprint store and I bought a new phone and tablet. Got a Samsung Epic 4G android phone, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab.
We also Met John, an Army Engineer from Great Britain, and had a nice conversation with him. He was thrilled to meet real truck drivers, as he enjoys looking at our big rigs. He was lamenting the lack of sidewalks on the east coast, and how nobody seems to walk anywhere in Eastern America. We assured him that things were better in the west, and suggested he make his way out here when he can.
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