Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
I knew I was going to have a long day and I kinda knew I might have to spend the night somewhere. I was dispatched to load in Houston and deliver in the Valley and return empty back to Houston. Sulfuric acid of course, that's about all I've been hauling here lately!
Loaded at Agrofos in Pasadena,TX, which was good since they load real fast. Once I left the plant that's when all the fun began! Traffic! You would think that eight thirty in the morning would be late enough to let the traffic clear. Nope. Not in Houston. Three big traffic jams in Houston before I could get out of town.
Got down to Edna to top off my one and only fuel tank. Good to wash off the windshield as well. Off-loaded at that uranium mine, the dirt road is still bumpy. Started to head back with marginal hours left.
The border patrol was working as they always do. As the drug dog and everything was going on, they ask me "the" question, Are you a citizen? "Yes I am a citizen."Always the usually question asked. But then they asked me to pull over to be x-rayed. Okay, that's new for me. It only took twenty seconds, it was no big deal. Good thing I was clean that day, just kidding, clean everyday.
Topped off my fuel at the Kingsville Loves Truck Plaza, and got an Arbys burger. Ran out of hours in El Campo, TX. The Best Western there has nice truck parking so I stayed the night there. I was in my day-cab so needed a hotel for my ten-hour break. No complaining here.
Now in the old days of trucking I would have driven right back to the yard. It would have been an eighteen hour day, but I have done that many times in the past. We cannot do that with electronic logs that we have now!
Nice trip and I tried to make it back to the ranch but just too many delays.
Brother Roop
Oct 19, 2011
I knew I was going to have a long day and I kinda knew I might have to spend the night somewhere. I was dispatched to load in Houston and deliver in the Valley and return empty back to Houston. Sulfuric acid of course, that's about all I've been hauling here lately!
Loaded at Agrofos in Pasadena,TX, which was good since they load real fast. Once I left the plant that's when all the fun began! Traffic! You would think that eight thirty in the morning would be late enough to let the traffic clear. Nope. Not in Houston. Three big traffic jams in Houston before I could get out of town.
Got down to Edna to top off my one and only fuel tank. Good to wash off the windshield as well. Off-loaded at that uranium mine, the dirt road is still bumpy. Started to head back with marginal hours left.
The border patrol was working as they always do. As the drug dog and everything was going on, they ask me "the" question, Are you a citizen? "Yes I am a citizen."Always the usually question asked. But then they asked me to pull over to be x-rayed. Okay, that's new for me. It only took twenty seconds, it was no big deal. Good thing I was clean that day, just kidding, clean everyday.
Topped off my fuel at the Kingsville Loves Truck Plaza, and got an Arbys burger. Ran out of hours in El Campo, TX. The Best Western there has nice truck parking so I stayed the night there. I was in my day-cab so needed a hotel for my ten-hour break. No complaining here.
Now in the old days of trucking I would have driven right back to the yard. It would have been an eighteen hour day, but I have done that many times in the past. We cannot do that with electronic logs that we have now!
Nice trip and I tried to make it back to the ranch but just too many delays.
Brother Roop
Oct 19, 2011
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