Oct 9, 2003

I left West Memphis at 0130.  I drove north on I-55 into Missouri where I picked up I-57.  I took that north into Illinois, where Lori woke up.  We switched out driving at an old abandoned truck stop in Mounds IL at 0400.

I woke up just before we got to Wabash IN, around 1200 noon.

At the consignee, Wabash Alloys, we scaled in, then dropped our trailer so that they could tow it around back where a big fork-lift type vehicle lifted up the nose of our trailer and shook out the scrap aluminum.  I could see the front of our trailer over the top of a building.  This thing looked like it was shaking out a salt shaker onto some scrambled eggs!  Mind you, our trailer weighs in at around 8 tons empty, and we had over 20 tons of aluminum in there! Wow!

Back on the road at 1430 with our now empty trailer, I returned to the bunk for some more sleep. I awoke just before we got to the loop around Indianapolis.  Back at the Indy OC at 1700, we dropped the empty, parked, went inside for dinner and a shower.

At 1900, I hooked up to our next load which was waiting for us there in the yard, a load of Sanyo TVs bound for a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania.  We were to take it only as far as the Seville OH OC for our time at home (TAH), where we would drop-relay it for another driver to take on to its final destination.

At 1930, I was on I-70 heading east. I drove straight through to Seville via I-70, I-270 around Columbus, I-71 north to I-76 east.  The Seville yard (Akron OC) is just off I-76 at Exit 2.  I arrived there at 0030 on the 10th.