It's cold up here

We had a long night last night getting up to Carol Stream, IL. I had to call it a night around 10pm and we stopped to grab a few hours of sleep. Since I was on my 10 hour break, Steve got up around 2am and drove us to the consignee. On the two hour ride up there, I was supposed to be sleeping in the bunk. It sure is hard to sleep when your body is touching the bed one second and isn't the next. Why bother with the asphalt, Illinois? Might as well save the taxpayers money.

After our delivery this morning we got a load going to Menasha, WI. Our consignee has two plants up here, one on each side of the river. Silly me for thinking we should go to the one our instructions specify. They didn't have an open dock, so it was much easier for them to say, "we just wanted to waste your time - take it to the plant you passed 15 minutes ago". That's what I heard anyway. There was supposed to be an empty trailer for us to pick up there, too. The guard has other plans and tells us to go up the road to grab a trailer. The guard up the road gives us a trailer number and says it's right where we just came from. So back to guard #1. "We're here to pick up trailer #whatever." Oh, it's broken? Any others by chance? Didn't think so. A brief telephone conversation might have saved us half an hour, but whatever. We can't pick up tonight anyway.

We're in Little Chute, WI for the night. We'll be picking up a load tomorrow morning going to North Carolina.