Apr 24, 2010
kansas to virgina
kansas is a busy place for weather. the weather man (and woman) certainly earn their money.
so far i have learned that there is more than one kind of tornado. there is a stove pipe funnel and a cone shaped funnel.
it was pouring this morning, and now it is fine. no rain, no wind but oh so muggy. it really does feel like storms are all around.
we will begin heading to virgina tomorrow.
in the morning the news said there were 32 tornado's yesterday with no injury's, or damage. wow
we went into the truckstop in the morning for coffee, brush my teeth etc. i could not believe my eyes where they usually have donuts, they had krispy creams, so i got a cup full of krispy cream donuts holes. uummmmm good.
will said he had to run back into the store real quick and i told him it better be quick, we have a schedule to keep im leaving in 15 minutes with or without you. (he always tells me to hurry up we have a schedule to keep) he said thats ok he'll just wait out front for me to come around again, cause he knows i'll be driving in circles trying to find the freeway. haha, very funny, bad karma points for him.
there sure are a lot of adult shops around here. with this being the bible belt i was thinking that we in the pacific northwest may not be as 'saved' as they are in the south and south east, but at least we dont have porn shops on every exit, advertising truck and rv parking.
we saw a couple of billboards that were clever. one was from a doctors office and said, "make your mammogram appointment today, we'll squeeze you in" the other one said "Squeeze in time for a mammogram"
we are not even to virgina and we already have our reload. its from coors, where we are dropping off and going to phoenix. its beer this time. so we have nearly been a part of the whole system at one point or another. for coors we have hauled big plastic pallets, cans, can-ends and next the finale product, beer. i dont know how they could have done it without us. well us and the farmers.
the kegs are under heavy lock and key
im a little bummed that we arent spending more time in virgina, i was really looking forward to hanging out for 34 hours. i'd better have more luck with postcards than i've been having.
yoo~woo sailors, i'm over here boys
we are also bummed that swift has a monthly mileage limit. if or when you go over that you are charged 10 cents a mile.
this week for last month they took at $520 dollars. OUCH!!! i told will we should not accept any loads that take us over our miles. he said we are only losing 10 cents a mile so we are still making money. i dont know, just seems like every time we turn around they have their hand out and it comes out of our pocket. we got a message from swift that every 90 days swift requires an annual d.o.t. inspection. i know you are thinking the same thing i was thinking. isn't an annual inspection done annually. the way swift has set it up is every 3 months when it is time to maintenance the truck, change oil etc. if that service is done at a swift yard, (which we pay for $175) then that will satisfy the annual inspection requirement. our driver manager said they are trying to stop people from going off site and getting service done somewhere else. our dm said it would cost us more, but we would get more for our money. but that was before they started requiring an annual inspection every 90 days. UGH!!!
where the buffalo roam
love and miss you all
