3:30 am.   Got to be in Illinois by 8 am and still have 200 miles to go.   Got a full clock so that helps today.  

7:15 Got to our drop in plenty of time.    Even got a door right away which is a good sign.  It’s a live unload but hopefully it won’t take too long.   Time to take a nap! 

8:50. Woken up by pounding on the door.  “You’re done”!   Great!  Less than 2 hours. Now we head to Wisconsin to pick up our load for New Jersey.  

DG:  Now it gets nasty. Get to pick up in Monroe, WI.  Quaint little village with a huge Swiss Colony factory on the edge of town. Our pick up time is 3:00pm, we arrive around noon. Load is not yet ready. We wait. Three hours go by. I get a message on the Qualcomm.  It’s load information for another load picking up today and delivering on the 11th.  This must be a mistake. I get those occasionally.  I inquire. No mistake. In the meantime another KLLM driver walks up to my truck along with a Swiss Coliny rep carrying a clipboard.  Apparently we have both been assigned the same load. So that other load info I received was not a mistake. I inquire of dispatch. Yep. They took me off that load and put me on another one. Part of me is thankful because the original load was headed for NJ and this new one is headed for GA.  Problem is my clock is low and I don’t have the time to make an on time pickup or delivery. Dispatch is not worried. I am to give them an ETA ASAP.  Good. Now to find parking for the night. We are several miles from the interstate but GPS says there are a couple of truck stops not far from us. Good because I am running out of time. We get to the first one.  No parking.  Try the next one. No parking there either. In fact both places were only fuel stops and not truck stops. Time is running out. With four minutes on my clock I stop in the middle of a turnaround to log mandate to leave. This gives me an out if my clock runs out. It does. Three minutes before we pull into a legitimate truck stop with ample parking.  Now to give those planners a piece of my mind. 

Annie – Gregory sent this to me today.  I can’t believe how much he grows every time I get a new picture. 

  
We had a beautiful sunset tonight as we pulled in to the truck stop.  The picture doesn’t do it justice.  It was a really deep red.  Just gorgeous. 

  
Well, turning in for the night.  3:30 comes early.   Goodnight y’all. 

DG:  Thought you might like to know what 27000 pounds of Cool Whip looks like. 

  
The whole trailer was full. 

Good night and God bless.