ROUTE: Woodruff, SC to Wilmington, IL: 718 miles
The last assignment delivered to the same party as the shipper so I was able to pickup the next load as I delivered the previous one. This is a 24/7 facility and all shipments are drop-and-hook. Fortunately the load was ready when I arrived the night before. By the time I was ready to depart I was low on hours and tired so I shut it down just after midnight at a nearby truck stop. There wasn’t any available spots so I simply parked blocking to bobtails and figure they would wake me when they were ready to leave which they did.
The delivery was scheduled for Saturday 01/24 at 11:01 but the consignee is also a 24/7 facility and the delivery was also drop-and-hook. Therefore, the delivery time was a mere formality just needed to be there by midnight. I started my day on Friday 01/23 at 10:30, the minimum ten-hour DOT mandatory break. I needed to fuel along the way and did so at a TA truck stop where I would spend the night and with the fuel credit got a shower in the morning.
Saturday 01/24 I started my day at 10:30 and still had a four-and-half hour drive to the consignee. I arrived at 15:00 and received my next assignment for Monday that would pickup in nearby Indiana and deliver in Kansas on Tuesday.
Earlier in the week I had gone to the dentist where he installed a temporary bridge on the dental procedures undertaken. Unfortunately that temporary bridge broke the previous day so I rejected the assignment and requested one that would bring me back to Michigan where I could have the dentist provide me with a new temporary bridge. AD Transport is a very understanding and compassionate employer and they were able to accommodate my request. There was a big winter storm coming through that weekend so I was going to be spending the weekend at a TA truck stop located across the street from the consignee.
BOOK REVIEW: Secret Sister by Sarah A. Denzil (2025), FICTION – RATING (***)
A convoluted story with too many similarities to make it reasonable but interesting enough to hold my attention. A famous author that has been diagnosed with eary stage of dementia is photographed disheveled one morning. She has no recollection of it and starts to believe she has a twin sister. She knows she’s adopted but never wanted to learn about her biological family.
Eventually we find out that she does have a twin sister and both of them have evil stepsons. The story abuses the notion of dementia. Sometimes she’s fairly and other times she’s completely lost in her thoughts. Anyway, there are other illogical factors that complicate the plot.
The ending is absurd as most of the narrative but not awful, so three stars seems fair.
