October 9, 1989, 2009

FIRST 5 YEARS: (Monday)
Really excited today...first time driving by myself and delivering tires in the Salt Lake area. Woke before dawn and went to find my first of nine drops. Expected and succeeded to get the first 7 drops today. Each of the drops have a trailer seal that has to be signed for to insure that I DID NOT steal any tires. Away, my first tire drop was in Provo(Utah) and I was there before the store was open. We started unloading not long after I got there. I rolled the tires out to the tire employee. Got done and they resealed my trailer for the next drop. I was at drop 2 in Orem(Utah) not long after I left Provo. Got backed up to the delivery door and rolled the tires out to the employee like I did at stop 1. Done at Orem, I moved onto the Sandy, Utah store and what a problem. I had to back in from the street and to the back of the store. The backing wasn't the problem; the traffic on the street was!!! One employee finally came out and stopped traffic for me. Unloaded the Sandy store tires like the other stores but the tires are getting a little harder to roll as we are getting further into the trailer. I put one tire flat on the floor and bounced the rest of the tires off of it. When finished, they resealed my trailer and I was off to the Van Winkle store. Could not find "Van Winke" on my map but the Sandy employees told me how to find the store in the Van Winkle district(I think that is how they put it). Had to take I-15 north to I-215 E. for a couple miles. Got to the store to find that this stop was also a back in from the street stop but it was not as bad as the Sandy store. Got these tires off and it was off to Kearns(Utah) for the next drop. Boy, Kearns was a really bad one!! Had to back in from the BUSY street with no help from the tire store and when unloading, had to round the tires "up". Yeap, the trailer was parked with the back of the trailer higher than the front!!! The tires were a challenge but I got them done. They resealed my trailer and off I was to the Salt Lake store. Found it with no problem but couldn't make a left turn into the store parking lot. Had to go around the block through a residential neighborhood(I trimmed some trees but no big deal). Easy back up and tires not hard to roll out of trailer. When done there, they resealed my trailer and I was off for the Bountiful(Utah) tire store. Did not have to back in off the street, but had to turn my rig around in their parking lot. When I was done I was between cars on their and their neigbors lot. The Bountiful tires were by far the worst ones to roll out as they were also rolled "up hill". Got gone and they resealed my trailer and I locked it as this was my last drop for the day. I went a couple blocks to a K-Mart and convenient store parking lot where they allowed trucks to park. Called my sister as she, with her family, live here. Spent the night with then and visited my Mother also as she lived only about a 1/4 mile from where I parked the truck.
Where next?????