The Truckin’ Blog

The Houston Chronicle is reporting that I-10 east of New Orleans is down. “We know that the I-10 twin span has blown over, is no longer with us,” said Mark Smith, spokesman for the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. This cuts a major lifeline for the city of New Orleans and the [...]

I got into Reno last night and delivered my load this morning. I am dispatched to pickup this afternoon and deliver in California in the morning. I am supposed to be heading for home sometime this week, but I seem to keep going the wrong way.
The news from New Orleans and southern Mississippi is [...]

Stopped in Grand Island, NE last night at the Bosslemans T/S. It was storming when I got here and rained off and on last night. Still heading for Reno, may talk to fleet manager in the morning about dropping load at our yard in Salt Lake City. I don’t have a problem with going on [...]

Hurricane Katrina has become a category 5 hurricane overnight. It is expected to hit New Orleans early Monday morning. It looks like New Orleans will take a direct strike from this deadly hurricane.
The storm is expected to spread hurricane force winds far inland, so people far from the coast will be effected. If you are [...]

Good Friday afternoon. After delivering in Sealy, TX I headed up to Waco and picked up a load going to Kennesaw, GA. Made it to Kennesaw this morning and dropped loaded trailer and went over to Duluth, GA to pick up a load to Reno, NV. Should make for a great weekend, [...]

Sitting around the T/A truckstop in Baytown waiting on my appointment time to roll around. It gives me a little time to update my websites, seems I have been neglecting them lately. I managed to get my term paper finished up and sent in yesterday, still waiting on the grade, hopefully the instructor [...]