Thursday in Tennesee

well it's Thursday. haven't been here fer a while so i thought i would add a lil something.

its been a long three or four days since i last put something up. last i wrote i was stuck in eagle pass TX waiting on a load, well since then i have been to Greensboro NC to deliver a load of something (we usually don't know and i always don't care) to polo Ralph Lauren and after i delivered i was in bed. delivered late at night and i was beat. then In the morning i went to asheboro NC to pick up a load of some other stuff and took that to MC Kinney TX and did a drop n swap with an empty trailer which i took to another driver so he could load it and get home, his wife was in the emergency room at the hospital, and i went over and picked up his load in our drop yard in Dallas TX . it was late when i picked up and i had been up since 0730 that day, i didn't make it too far. just to Prescott Ar where i went to bed yet again. got up this am and started to roll out, my dispatcher called and said we were gonna relay the load in Dickson tn, and that is where i am now. I've got another load going back down to eagle pass Tex but I'm gonna drop this at the same drop yard i picked the other one up at tomorrow afternoon.

I've only seen 1 stupid thing so far this week...a big truck just about took the hood(bonnet for those of you across the pond in England) off of another truck as he was being STUPID trying to get off of an exit ramp on i-640 going around Knoxville tn. he didn't miss the other truck by 18 inches. really stupid, very scary and extremely dangerous. and i along with 5 or 6 other drivers told him so on the cb radio.

ran into some very bad weather this past week too. nasty rain, thunder boomers lightning and heavy winds, but we all needed the rains, just not so much at one time. sorry Houston.

Dont forget every one...mothers day is just around the corner. dont forget the one that brung ya. or the one that brung yer kids! or the both of them for that matter. or your daughters if there moms too. check out the links below for some possible gift ideas for mom. pajamagrams or a vermont teddybear...nice....and she'll love ya for it too. yall be safe out yonder....mike

thank god its friday

well, here we are again,in the blogspot, well actually, i'm in eagle pass,tx and yer in the blogspot. so far nothing stupid has happened yet this week, but it is still early. i'm down here waiting my turn for a load out. i'm first on the list, but that dosent mean moch when the freight is'nt here yet. hoping for a load to california, but will probably get a load to oklahoma city for monday. yea! cant you tell how excited i am??
i'm also gonna use this post to welcome a couple of friends to the site. first let me welcome my dear friend and his wife from east central pensylvania. they know who they are. i WILL NOT use the real names of ANY of my friends on this page without their express permission. so for now i'll call them roger and jane. roger and jane have been maried for......well a long time and much to my sadness and WAY more so to theirs, roger was reciently diagnosed with lung cancer. my prayers and i hope all of yours will go out to them for a speedy recovery. rogers wife,jane is THE ROCK. she is WAAAAAAY COOL and takes OUTSTANDING care of roger. dont get me wrong, roger is up and about on his feet fighting hard every step of the way. he's a fighter and WILL NOT go down without a fight. roger is WAAAAAY COOL too and is one of the best friends i have. my thought and prayers are with him and jane all the time
next. let me welcome my dear friend mary,you know who you are, who lives out in Las Vegas, with her son. she is a hard working, reciently single, also, WAAAAAAY COOL mom who i've known for almost 30 years.SHE IS AN OUTSTANDING FRIEND and im soooo glad to call her my friend.
welcome to you both and to any of my other friends that i told about this place but failed to recognize here. i'll post more later, or tomorrw or whenever. yall be safe out yonder .mike

joliet,il to marion,oh

well, here it is, the highly anticipated second posting...lol. its been an interesting day. rolled out of where i was parked last night in joliet,il this morning bout 7:30 and had to make my delivery in lansing mi today b-4 noon. did that. been there. now, after some delays and my dispatcher not knowing what exactily he wanted me to do, i sit for the night in a rest area on us23 north of marion oh . going to get a bit of sleep(was up WAAAAAY to late last night)and roll out bout 6am going down to grove port,oh to drop-n-swap n pick up a loaded trailer and take it to grove city, oh to unload and then take that trailer to delaware,oh to drop-n-swap again for a load going to eagle pass,tx for friday b-4 noon .
the weather has been lousy all day. rain cold sleet and generally crappy.cant wait to get back south. i hate cold(along with stupid and several other things we'll get to along the way)snow and i dont do chains or as some call them "truck bling". if ya gotta hang iron, it just time to go to bed.
short CONSTRUCTIVE critisim is good. if you can give me SHORT tips on how to make this better,they will be appreciated. im not a good writer and my ideas can be rather bland, soideas will be looked at and used if appropriate. thanx, n good night....mike

The first one

Greetings and welcome to my new blog page. just got it up and going and now its time for bed. im a long haul cross country trucker with little time and few friends, so this will be a learning experience for me, and if you choose to keep up with this, and me, a test of patience for all of you. i suck at typing and i dont get much time to do this, so updates wil be sporradic at best, but i will try, hell, i cant figureout how to add pics and other stuff yet. that will come later, he said with a hopefull look on hs face. mike

the real first one, i lost it and now it is found

Greetings and welcome to my new, first time attempt at a blog. this will be a learnining experience for me as i suck at typing and with what i do for a living(truck driver) the title fits and i wont be having too much time to devote to this site. but i'll do my best