December 17, 1991, 2011

FIRST 5 YEARS:(Tuesday-Franklin, Tennessee)
Awoke to no load and so I decided to write some letters.  Shortly after that I decided to drive to our fuel stop in Nashville, Tennessee as that was where I was suppose to be.  I got there and still didn't have a load.  About 2:30 PM CST I got a load that I needed to pick up at the Ford Glass Factory.  I wasn't excited about where I was going--Wichita, Kansas--but was happy I was going somewhere.  I went to the plant and dropped my empty trailer.  As I was getting ready to hook up, "Soda Pop"--a trainer/driver--and his student--"Dream Chaser"--pulled up to the trailer next to me.  When they found that I was going the Wichita, they wanted to trade loads.  They were going to Canada.  They felt Wichita gave them a better chance of getting home to Oklahoma City for Christmas time.  I said I thought that going to Canada would but they still wanted to trade....I said OK and we traded loads. 

I got loaded and headed for Taylor, Michigan, my terminal where I stop at before going over into Canda.  I headed up I-65 and stopped in Shepherdsaville, Kentucky for a big bag of White Castle hamburgers.  On up to Louisville where I caught I-71 to I-75.

As my day closed, I was about 4 1/2 hours from the Taylor(Detroit) terminal and traveling through Ohio. 

December 16, 1991,2011

FIRST 5 YEARS:(Monday-Birmingham, Alabama)
Just as the sun was coming up, a construction site fellow woke me up and told me where to put my truck for unloading.  I wasn't the first to be unloaded so I waited awhile.  After I was unloaded, I went to the big Birminham truckstop and found it a real "dump"!!! 

I waited around it--the "dump"--until all hopes of getting out of this area were gone for the day.  THEN, with a check call at 4:30 PM CST I got sent empty to Nashville Tennessee.  I left up I-65 into Tennessee and stopped at a truckstop in Franklin(Tennessee) for the night. 

December 15, 1991, 2011

FIRST 5 YEARS:(Sunday-St. Genevieve, Missouri)
I woke at 5:30 AM CST, for what reason I didn't know.  I drove down I-55 to I-155 and took it into Tennessee.  At Dyersburg(Tennessee) I grabbed Hwy 412 and took it to Jackson where I got on Hwy 45.  I took Hwy 45 to Corinth, Mississippi and there got on Hwy 72 and went east to the southside of Florence, Alabama.  Then took Hwy 157 to I-65 and then south.  I didn't know anything but an address to where I was going so I bought a Birmingham, Alabama map.  Found the street I needed and got there after dark.  I couldn't find the address so at the end of the street, I stopped at a convenience store and asked it's loxation.  I got an "I don't know where it is".  Since I was at the end of the street, I went back and found a construction site on the south side of the srtreet.  I went to the back of the site and found a couple more of our trucks so I just parked fopr the night....

December 14, 1991, 2011

FIRST 5 YEARS:(Saturday-KansasCity, Missouri)
Was in the terminal early this morning and the best load I could get was one I had to pickup in Bridgeton, Missouri and take to Birmingham, Alabama for Monday morning. 

I left for Bridgeton(St Louis area), stopping in Fulton to check on my mail--none--....

Got to Hussman Refrigeration and pickuped up trailer of store refrigerator units.  After I got my units I left down I-270 to I-55 stopping at St Geneveve, Missouri for the night....got a motel room...