To North Carolina and more May Pics

We delivered a load of aluminum cans from Rome, GA to warehouse next to Anheuser-Busch plant in downtown St. Louis, MO. After getting unloaded they sent us next door to pick up a load of Busch Light beer going to Montgomery, AL. The load was not supposed to be ready until midnight and it was 4:30pm when we got unloaded. Busch has a call in number that you can call before you go in there that is automated. It tells you if the load is ready or not and on what trailer it is loaded. I called the number and it had just finished loading at 4:07pm, so we drove next door and picked up the load.

It was supposed to deliver to the Budweiser distributor on Friday, but since I got the load early we pushed hard to Montgomery. They don't take appointments, they are first come first serve delivery from 8am to 4pm. We got in there at 3:15pm so I was able to get unloaded Thursday afternoon.

After unloading they sent me a load offer, but it didn't deliver until Monday 225 miles away, they quickly sent me another offer saying it would work better. Still delivered Monday 500 miles away. They followed up with 2 offers that delivered over the weekend. It was bam, bam, bam on the offers. They apologized for the confusion, but didn't help my confusion much.

Anyway, ended up with a load that picks up in Demopolis, AL west of Montgomery going to North Carolina and delivers on Saturday.

Below are some pictures returning from the Maine trip. Trip through Connecticut across the GW bridge in NYC, and around loop in Washighton, DC.