So, we kick off another year of trucking with a resounding thud.
Since I last blogged here, we changed our system so that I take a few months off in the winter, which does a lot toward preventing the need to save our marriage. See, things slow down enough in the winter that we would just be butting heads and going stir crazy.
But come April it is time for me to get back on the truck.
So last night (after pushing like crazy to get everything packed into the new truck, which has much less storage) we headed up to Vancouver Washington to pick up a load of brewing vats headed for Fargo North Dakota. Now, the vats themselves would fit on our trailer, but not with the ladder hooks and braces -- it was too big!
So we drove up here for nothing.
We had breakfast at the Cascade Grill at the Jubitz Truck Stop and have been sitting here pretty much all day. All the alternative loads haven't offered any good pay, but it looks like we're going to take some lumber out of Mill City headed for somewhere in eastern South Dakota.
Hopefully once we get off the left coast will get back to where there is good paying freight.
