Friday, July 06, 2007

A NIGHT IN GARY, INDIANA

We have been hearing about the heatwave that has been hitting most of the country the last couple of days. Fortunately, we have been able to avoid the extreme heat that others have had to endure. We made our way into Michigan Thursday night, about 30 miles from where we were to deliver our load of boats. It gave us an opportunity to take showers and walk across the street for an iced coffee from McDonald's. After all, a girl can only go so long without a good iced latte!

We arrived at the dealership about an hour before they opened, to find that another boat driver already there. We parked behind him and Craig did the mandatory "driver chat" until we were summoned into the yard to begin unloading. Craig, who is always helpful to other drivers, assisted the other driver with unloading his boats. I waited in the cab, sometimes too many people working around the trailer while you are unloading actually impedes the progress instead of helps. When it was our turn to unload I was happy to don my gloves and get to work. While we got the boats unloaded two more boat drivers arrived at the yard. Seems it was a very busy day at Wilson Marine in Brighton, Michigan

After we sent in our empty call we were told to go back to Pipestone, MN to pick up some boats to take to Virginia Beach, Virginia. We will have a nice leisure drive back to Minnesota over the weekend for a Monday morning load. Tonight we will be staying at the company yard in Gary, Indiana, kicking back, relaxing, and getting to sleep in Saturday morning.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well someone has to be the boss.

Mom said...

You're coming to my part of the country.Be prepared for the heat and humidity of the mid-Atlantic region. Supposed to be 98 today.

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