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I am home today

MrBoyd — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:15:30 +0000

I made it in about 10 PM yesterday. It always feels good to get home and sleep in my own bed.

On the way down, I tried to visit with Alice Eisenhower of Alice’s Pilot Cars in Colorado Springs, but unfortunately she was busy. I DID stop in Raton and had lunch with John Owens of Owens’ Logistics. John has been in the pilot car business for about 8 years and has three other drivers working for him. We had a good visit.

Then, I drove from Raton, NM, to Clayton, NM. In all of my years of driving in NM, somehow I have never driven that route before. It was beautiful. I saw hundreds of antelope feeding within just a few hundred yards of the highway. Most of the road is four lane divided highway. There are some sections still under construction, but all in all, it is a good highway.

Today, I’ve got to clean out the truck first and get it ready for the next run. Then, I’ve got to do some repairs on my carport. 40-60 mile winds are ripping it apart and if I don’t do something, it will completely collapse around me. Then, I’ve got to finish repairing a light fixture for my dining room ceiling fan.

Tomorrow I’ve got to get a front end alignment and a new windshield for my truck.

We FINALLY dropped our load today

MrBoyd — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:31:27 +0000

Would you believe it took us three whole days to take a mobile home 435 miles to the drop point? That’s what it took us! If you’ve read my previous “Where we are today” posts, you already know that we began this trip on Tuesday. We got about 95 miles before the truck lost its drive shaft. Wednesday, we worked all day to repair the truck until we discovered that it would have to go into a shop for repairs. We moved a whole 16 miles. Today, we took off at the crack of sunrise…drove about 90 miles and had to shut down for 47 mph winds. After about an hour and a half, we took off again…but were delayed en route by two flats (one on the mobile home…BIG BOOM…and one on my truck). We dropped our load late today at the site of a new mine that is being opened up. It is a good thing they sent us a guide. We had a map that allegedly would lead us to the site…but it was MILES away from the actual drop site. We would have been in BIG trouble if we had taken this load up some of those canyons and then have to turn it around and come back out.

I’m still not home. I decided to get a room when I started seeing funny little green men on the shoulder of the road. I’m in Santa Rosa, NM.