Here I am in Prescott, AZ with ANOTHER Sears load. 

This was one of those last minute "The original driver screwed up, can you save the load for us" trips. At least maybe I'll get back down to Phoenix today. 

Running empty down to Sears in Delano to haul a load down to LA to another Sears distribution center. This hauling empty stuff isn't that bad. Green lights at the scales! 

Running empty down to Proctor & Gamble to pick up a load going back up to Woodland (just past Sacramento), and then another load from there back up to Oregon. 

Oh how nice, hauling produce. Actually, raisins and packaged foods to the rail head in Fresno. 

Another Honeywell load from Fernley to Phoenix and then a Reckitt Benckiser load up to Lathrop, CA. I'm sick of driving in California! 

Somehow I find myself under a load from Sears in Delano to a Sears store in Reno. My second trip to Reno in just over a week. 

Oh, and that's just the first stop. I have to hand unload appliances and lawn tractors at a Sears Catalog Store in Fallon, NV...someplace east and south of Reno about 50 miles. 

I dropped my trailer yesterday evening and went home. This morning I had a dispatch for a Reckitt Benckiser load (HEAVY!) going up to Red Bluff, CA.

866 paid miles, 700 of which are in the People's Republic of California (55mph limit). 

I made it as far as Tonopah, NV last night. When I headed out this morning, I came across a broken down Werner truck just south of Tonopah (about 4am). 

He had hit something in the road and it severed his emergency air line on one brake canister. His trailer tire had locked up and he couldn't get enough traction to pull the thing completely off the road. He was sitting with the rear of the trailer sticking out into traffic and no ability to cage the brake and get out of the way.

He was calling his Emergency repair people when I left him. 

I made it down to Phoenix in one piece, finally. 

This morning I relayed a short load to a place in Reno and then scooted out to Fernley for my next load. 

Son of a gun, it's a load of spark plugs going down to Phoenix. Imagine that. 

I made it all the way to Lone Pine last night. I went Off-Duty in the dark. 

Woke up this morning to the high Mojave desert out one window and the Sierra Nevada out the other. Wow! Mt Whitney is located near Lone Pine. It is a fantastic view. Now I have to find the pictures I took.

Made it to Reno, but they change the load to a "Drop" at the yard in Sparks.