Off to Indianapolis and Back to Atlanta

What? No not today, that's what happened last night. Dispatch called at about 1915 last night to say that one of their dedicated trucks was broken down and that they needed us to cover a load to Indianapolis and right back to Atlanta. We were to meet another driver in Indianapolis, with a load from Chicago and switch trailers with him.

By the time the other truck got back to our Atlanta yard it was about 1930. We hooked the loaded trailer, performed a pre-trip inspection, made some small talk with the driver and then we were off to Indianapolis.

We traveled up I-75 to Chattanooga TN where we accessed I-24 and ran that to Nashville TN. From Nashville we ran up I-65 into Indianapolis.

We made it to Indy at about 0530, rendezvoused with the other driver, switched paperwork and trailers, performed our pre-trip inspection, caught up on our logbooks, and we were headed back to Atlanta by about 0600.

We traveled the same routes to get back into Atlanta that we traveled out of there. We arrived back at the yard at about 1500 but before we even got back into the Atlanta area we had a dispatch back out. We were asked to run a load up to Columbus oh that would be ready at about 2000 tonight.

The trip up to Indy and back was really uneventful. We hit a few spots of rain was all. I did get 1 great picture of the way someone in Kennesaw GA feels about our illustrious government and those in charge. I believe if you'll click on the image it will enlarge enough that you will be able to read the bumper stickers. More and more, all across America, the pot is beginning to boil. People are fed up, tired and disgusted with our tyrannical, out of control, power thirsty politicians.


In the mean time...Here is a novel item for the coming election year.
When The Politicians Are On TV, Blowing Hot Air And You Want To Scream, Just Grab Your Doll And Give It A Fling, Let Them Know...Hey, You Work For Me.

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All Dolls are bipartisan, Republican on 1 side, Democrat on the other.



In closing, we hope that you can find it in your budget to help with a small purchase or a donation in support of our mission.
We have launched into a couple of apparel stores so that everyone can show their support of the 912 Truck. Click here to show your support, or go to www.printfection.com/912truck. For those of you that would rather have a hat or mug you we have another outlet at cafepress.com/912 Truck. You can also use any of the donate buttons on this page to make a contribution directly to our endeavor to Waking up America.
Thanks for your support.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW

(((Poof))), Now we're in Atlanta GA.

Wow, that was quick. Dispatch called at about 1345 yesterday and told us to hook to an empty trailer and head to Mexico. WHAT??? Oh, Mexico MO, about 20 miles North East of Columbia MO north of I-70. Well, once we got the country thing straightened out, we done as asked and hooked to an empty trailer, headed out on I-70 east and went to Mexico Mo.

Here is a picture of a billboard seen on the way to Mexico MO. Again, more and more of these billboards are popping up across America. If you can see your way to do so, I believe we should patronize the folks placing these ads, be whomever they may. This ad was placed by Osage Food Products. This company is actually on who mostly sells ingredients to other food service and manufacturing industries so while most of us can't patronize them directly we can patronize those by whom they are used.

Once in Mexico, we dropped our empty trailer and hooked to a pre-loaded one that was waiting there. Once hooked to the loaded trailer, we headed to Atlanta GA for an 0600 delivery this morning.

The trip was relatively uneventful. There was an accident on I-57 north so we did stopped at a rest area just east of St. Louis Mo on I-64 to look at a map and find an acceptable detour and also to reset the generator control unit and there we were approached by another driver wanting to know about the truck and the signatures on the tool box. I explained the 9/12 Project and the idea behind the truck and Edward was very interested in the whole movement. Edward told me he was a 4th generation Mexican American and how he loves God, Family, and Country. He believes, as most of us believe, that this government is on a tirade of a power grab and Liberty usurpation.

I also spoke to Edward about the Bring Home the Politicians idea and he was very interested in that idea as well. I made a video of my conversation with Edward but unfortunately my inexperience and amateur abilities came through when I was too close to the truck with the generator and truck engine both running and that is all that is heard. You can see his mouth moving and engine noise. I have learned a lesson. The next video will be usable.

We arrived in Atlanta at about 0500 at the receiver and of course, they weren't open that early. They finally got to the warehouse at about 0555. Heaven forbid showing up a minute early for work. Anyway, we dropped the loaded trailer, hooked to an empty that was sitting there, and headed back to our terminal about 3 miles to the north.

Upon arrival at the terminal, we dropped the trailer and Tina went for a walk, I went for a nap, straight to bed. I got up at about 1030, Tina made us some breakfast and no, here we sit, at about 1330 waiting for our next dispatch.

In the mean time...Here is a novel item for the coming election year.
When The Politicians Are On TV, Blowing Hot Air And You Want To Scream, Just Grab Your Doll And Give It A Fling, Let Them Know...Hey, You Work For Me.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
A useful, bipartisan doll to give you something to throw while watching the news and listening to the politicians lie with every motion of their lips. Throw your doll and scream while never causing any damage to your television. These dolls now come with a retrieval string for retrieval without moving from your perch on the couch.

All Dolls are bipartisan, Republican on 1 side, Democrat on the other.



In closing, we hope that you can find it in your budget to help with a small purchase or a donation in support of our mission.
We have launched into a couple of apparel stores so that everyone can show their support of the 912 Truck. Click here to show your support, or go to www.printfection.com/912truck. For those of you that would rather have a hat or mug you we have another outlet at cafepress.com/912 Truck. You can also use any of the donate buttons on this page to make a contribution directly to our endeavor to Waking up America.
Thanks for your support.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW

Out of Shop, Sittin in Kansas City MO

We finally left the Kenworth dealer in Dallas last night at about 0045 EDT. We headed over to our terminal to get some sleep just in case a load came available. I made a phone call to dispatch to make sure that they knew we were avail for work. Dispatch, much to my dismay at the time, was working on moving a load from McAllen TX to Dallas. One of our other drivers had failed to show for pickup and they needed a team to take an empty trailer down and pull the loaded one back to Dallas.

Dispatch called back about 30 minutes later and said that the load from McAllen was covered(God is SOOOOOO good), but that they had a load out of the Dallas terminal that was added to the lineup and needed to go to Kansas City MO. The load was to be ready between 0430 and 0500. We accepted the load and drifted off to sleep.

The massage came at about 0345 that the load was ready. I got up, got ready to go, went to the office for the paperwork and headed to the fuel island. After fueling I hooked the loaded trailer, performed the pre trip inspection, caught up my log book and we were off to Kansas City(MCI).

We decided on a different route this time. We normally run 75/69 to I-35 and into Kansas City. This time we opted to run 75/69 to Big Cabin Oklahoma and then go east on I-44 to Joplin Mo where we would access 71 north to Kansas City MO.

Just before we headed north on 71 in Joplin, the "Check Engine" lite came on again. Talk about being sick to your stomach. You spend $7000.00 to fix a problem, drive 325 miles and an indication of the problem reoccurs. Now that'll make you sick.

I stopped the truck on the shoulder and tried to access the fault codes, to no avail. I then shut the truck off and restarted the engine and the light was out. I chose to run on to Kansas City and see what happened. The fault never reoccurred, so when we got here, I checked everything that I can check and opted to let it go as a fluke for now. I will continue to monitor the situation and see what happens.

We arrived in Kansas City today at about 1400 and went straight to bed for a nap. It was a long day and night yesterday so we were both pretty tired. We thought that since we had arrived early enough in the day that we might get a dispatch out of here tonight. That didn't happen. It looks like we'll be here all night unless something strange happens like another truck breaking down of falling off a load for some reason. Either way, it is what it is. I'm sure we'll get out tomorrow evening at the latest.



In the mean time...Here is a novel item for the coming election year.
When The Politicians Are On TV, Blowing Hot Air And You Want To Scream, Just Grab Your Doll And Give It A Fling, Let Them Know...Hey, You Work For Me.

A useful, bipartisan doll to give you something to throw while watching the news and listening to the politicians lie with every motion of their lips. Throw your doll and scream while never causing any damage to your television. These dolls now come with a retrieval string for retrieval without moving from your perch on the couch.

All Dolls are bipartisan, Republican on 1 side, Democrat on the other.



In closing, we hope that you can find it in your budget to help with a small purchase or a donation in support of our mission.
We have launched into a couple of apparel stores so that everyone can show their support of the 912 Truck. Click here to show your support, or go to www.printfection.com/912truck. For those of you that would rather have a hat or mug you we have another outlet at cafepress.com/912 Truck. You can also use any of the donate buttons on this page to make a contribution directly to our endeavor to Waking up America.
Thanks for your support.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW

Update on "Truck still in the Shop"

At about 1700EDT the tech contacted me and explained that the turbo was bad, the EGR cooler was leaking, and that the DPF must come off to be cleaned out. I authorized the repairs, to the tune of $7600.00, and they were off and running.

At about 1745, the tech called me back to the shop to show me the DPF after it was removed and disassembled. The DPF (diesel particulate filter), he said, should have been totally plugged with this kind of mileage on the engine. That is to say 517000 miles. He said that they are supposed to be removed and cleaned every 200000 miles and that at 517000 he figured it would be so plugged that replacement might be necessary. Kudos to good, regular, timely preventative maintenance and proper driving techniques.

Anyway, the truck is to be ready, new turbo, new EGR cooler and cleaned DPF by about midnight tonight.

I called dispatch earlier, as stated in the last post, and they did decide to give the load to another team. We should get out of Dallas tomorrow, though i have no idea to where we will be headed.


In the mean time...Here is a novel item for the coming election year.
When The Politicians Are On TV, Blowing Hot Air And You Want To Scream, Just Grab Your Doll And Give It A Fling, Let Them Know...Hey, You Work For Me.

A useful, bipartisan doll to give you something to throw while watching the news and listening to the politicians lie with every motion of their lips. Throw your doll and scream while never causing any damage to your television. These dolls now come with a retrieval string for retrieval without moving from your perch on the couch.

All Dolls are bipartisan, Republican on 1 side, Democrat on the other.



In closing, we hope that you can find it in your budget to help with a small purchase or a donation in support of our mission.
We have launched into a couple of apparel stores so that everyone can show their support of the 912 Truck. Click here to show your support, or go to www.printfection.com/912truck. For those of you that would rather have a hat or mug you we have another outlet at cafepress.com/912 Truck. You can also use any of the donate buttons on this page to make a contribution directly to our endeavor to Waking up America.
Thanks for your support.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW

Truck Still in the Shop

We dropped the truck off at MHC Kenworth in Dallas yesterday. We had a check engine lite coming on and producing a "turbo actuator" code. We were told upon drop off that they would get it in on third shift last night or first thing this morning. Finally, at about 1300 today, we received a call from the tech about our truck.

The call wasn't good news, though it could have been worse. We were told at a minimum that we need a turbo actuator and that the "DPF" (diesel particulate filter) needs to come off the truck and be cleaned out. The tech also said that the EGR cooler was probably leaking coolant and that there were several other "inactive codes". We were also told that the truck would likely not be done by 2100 this evening. OOPS!!!

What is the significance of 2100 today? Well, only that we accepted a load from dispatch earlier going to Columbus and it was to load tonight at 2100. I hate when that happens.

I called dispatch immediately and let them know about the dilemma. We're not real sure yet what they are going to do with the load. They might pull it from us and give it to someone else or they may leave us on the load until more information is available. I am waiting to hear back from dispatch as I write.

More later.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better TOmorrow
ADW

Sitting in Irving

We arrived in Irving, TX this morning at about 0600. After dropping the trailer we got a much needed and appreciated nap. The phone woke us up at about 1030 or so and it was my mother just checking in to let us know that all was well.

We decided it was time to get up and get ready for the day. At about 1130 or so we headed over to Grapevine Mills to the Cracker Barrel and had a great breakfast. From there it was back to the terminal and wait for impending dispatch. It is rather warm here today, about 98 degrees or so.

The phone finally rang at about 1545 and dispatch said it was pretty darned slow today. They did offer us a load to Orlando but it didn't leave until noon tomorrow and it was a customer load rather than a load from our DFW terminal to or Orlando terminal. We turned the load down and will now head to the nearest Kenworth dealer to get the truck repaired.

It appears that we have a turbo failure happening and certainly have a turbo actuator failure. I will leave that diagnosis to the professionals though.

I will update you as I get new information.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW

In Columbus OH Headed to Iriving Texas

We have had a rather busy three weeks. Between truck repairs and lots of fright, there hasn't been a lot of time for blogging. I know, that is really no excuse but those are the only reason I have. I didn't lose an arm, or my vision, I haven't had a lobotomy, though Tina says I do sometimes act like I have. Just very busy and trying to work hard enough to take most of August off so that we can attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in D.C.. We are very excited about the event.

We have had a couple break downs in the last three weeks. We had to have injector "O" rings replaced to repair a coolant leak, which it didn't. We were home yesterday and had a sleeper air bag failure, so I had to replace that air bag. Now, we have either a turbocharger or a turbocharger actuator failing. Oh well, without failures we wouldn't appreciate all the "non-failures". We drive so many miles without failures and just seem to forget those when something does break or fail. We must learn to count our blessing more often.

We are sitting in Columbus Oh today. We arrived here last night and got a good nights rest. On the way here, it seemed to be even more apparent than ever how the awakening of America is taking place. We didn't even got 11 miles from the house and some amazing patriots approached the truck while I was fueling. From there on up to here, it was just 1 car load after another waiving in agreement with the message on the truck.
America is Awakening, and D.C. needs to do the same. We are seeing more and more billboards about the coming house cleaning in D.C., the improprieties of Congress, and the incompetence of our chosen leaders. I am trying to get pictures of those billboards but it proves rather difficult at times while I am driving, well, at least without running other folks off the road.

We are sitting here now, listening to our Cowboy Church and Bill Mack's Sunday Social on XM radio. We are waiting on our load going to Irving Texas. We were actually dispatched to Minneapolis last night for today but then we were asked to take this Iriving Tx load that was added with extra freight. Either way, they seem to be running ab out 4 hours behind right now so the load should be ready about noon.

I have no idea what awaits in Irving but we shall see soon enough. My guess is that we will have a dispatch before we even arrive there. That seems to be the way it has been working in recent days. Either way, I will try to keep this site updated more regularly.

We will be traveling down I-71 to I-65 to Nashville TN then onto I-40 to Little Rock TX and I-30 into the Dallas area. Be sure and wave if you see us along the way and smile for a picture as I will be trying to take one if you are waving. If you are in the Dallas.Ft Worth area and would like to see the truck, send me a message from this site and we'll see what we can do to set up a meeting.



In the mean time...Here is a novel item for the coming election year.
When The Politicians Are On TV, Blowing Hot Air And You Want To Scream, Just Grab Your Doll And Give It A Fling, Let Them Know...Hey, You Work For Me.

A useful, bipartisan doll to give you something to throw while watching the news and listening to the politicians lie with every motion of their lips. Throw your doll and scream while never causing any damage to your television. These dolls now come with a retrieval string for retrieval without moving from your perch on the couch.

All Dolls are bipartisan, Republican on 1 side, Democrat on the other.



In closing, we hope that you can find it in your budget to help with a small purchase or a donation in support of our mission.
We have launched into a couple of apparel stores so that everyone can show their support of the 912 Truck. Click here to show your support, or go to www.printfection.com/912truck. For those of you that would rather have a hat or mug you we have another outlet at cafepress.com/912 Truck. You can also use any of the donate buttons on this page to make a contribution directly to our endeavor to Waking up America.
Thanks for your support.

In God I Trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW