Still in Indiana

I'm starting to see the pattern. Hurry up and wait. Last night, Steve asked if I preferred getting up early, as in 5am early, or waiting until after Chicago traffic cleared to head out. Seeing as how we had until 2pm to deliver and it's really early and really cold at 5am, I suggested we sleep in. What's that? We're leaving at 5? Ok then, I hope my opinion was entertaining because it obviously wasn't very meaningful. No problem. Sweet vindication was on the horizon, though I wasn't aware at the time. The first clue was that the truck engine had a hard time starting last night when it was time for the heat to come on. The second clue was that during the night, as a safety precaution, the truck shut itself down. I noticed that when I woke up freezing. So, at 5am, despite the warning buzzer and the truck shutting itself down (which only occurs during engine overheats or low oil pressure), Steve pulls out of the truck stop. The one that has maintenance on site. He made it across the street to the on-ramp before the truck shut down again. Here's the good part: Our company maintenance crew doesn't come in until 7am. So after waiting a couple hours, they tell us to try to limp back to the truck stop, which involves a 6 mile trip up the interstate to turn around and 6 miles back. Our truck only ran about 300ft before shutting down, so we ended up calling a tow truck to take us straight to the Freightliner shop in Gary, IN. Turns out we had a bad fuel injector. No problem, they say, it will be fixed by the end of the day. The end of the day arrived and they informed us that they had to order a part and the truck wouldn't be ready until tomorrow. Thanks for the advance notice. So, we're staying at a Best Western tonight. We'll see what tomorrow brings.