Camped for the night at a truck stop near Knoxville, TN

Hey ya'll! How's it going? Tonight will probably be a short entry (although I always tend to say that and then I go on to write a small book. lol!) The only reason I am going to try (emphasis on try) to keep it short tonight is because it's 11:30 where I'm at, and I really gotta hit the road again by like 6:30 or so. I'm like 4 hours away, and I have till 1400 (2pm) to deliver this load, but I don't want to cut it that close. Technically I could have delivered it today but decided to only go a little ways today.

This load has 2 different loads on it, which basically means 2 pickups both going to the same location. If I had gotten both loads quick, I would have been on the road by like, 11 or so this morning. If I could have gone the 6 hours to deliver and get there by 6pm, then I would have done that today. But I got to my first pickup by like 10:30, and the load wasn't ready till like 11:45. I got to my next pickup by 12:45, and got out of there by 1:45. When walking around my trailer to secure the doors, I did a quick inspection of the tires and noticed one of the trailer tires was separating. I was like "shit!"

However, the tire was still inflated, not sure how exactly. So I figured well I'll hit the road, and within 50 miles I'd go by a loves for fuel and I'd take the equipment in to have the tire replaced. My thought process was if it blew it blew, and I'd just keep going to get it to the shop. I could have taken it into our shop in lebanon but the last time I took one of interstates trailers there for brakes or tires they basically told me they'd get to it the next day. So I told them I'd just take it somewhere else and they tried to tell me that I couldn't take the equipment off their property. I said "i brought it in under the assumption that it'd get right in the shop based on what I was told, and you're telling me it wont be till tomorrow, so I'm leaving with the trailer to take it somewhere that will do the work today."

I needed to get that load delivered first thing the following morning, and if I waited for them then I would have been late.

So damn, a lot has gone on the past few weeks or so since I last was on here. (sorry about how long it's been since my last entry.) Partially due to lack of time with being so busy, partially due to computer issues, or I should say inverter issues. Normally when I'm out here with the computer, I'd plug it into my inverter to charge it up, but I broke the plug on the inverter. I guess I unplugged it from the port too rough or something because the plastic on the end broke and the fuse came out. I found the fuse but didn't have the other pieces to be able to put it back together. So for the past few weeks I basically would charge my computer up when I was home on my 34 hour break and then I'd get like 2 sessions on my computer out here before it'd die and I'd be without the computer till I got home again. Definitely sucks because too often I'll be in the middle of something and it'll be like "sleep mode" and I'll be like "damnit I was so close to finishing! (I know, that's what she said right? :P ).

So anyway, to close up this entry and try to not ramble on for too much longer, I'm still working on building my online business. We hold live, free, online webinars every monday and thursday nights. You should definitely check it out!

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So anyway, I will call that it for now. I'll try to not let it be so long before I hop on here again! To connect with me other than on here, i'm at facebook.com/ceazfreedom , twitter at patruckerchris , and instagram at surripets.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day/week/whatever, and I'll talk to you all again soon!