MR & MRS POTATO HEAD

It seems some loads develop a pattern, like a couple of weeks ago when we had some dairy loads run back to back. We seemed to have another pattern developing with our latest run as well, hence I am temporarily calling us Mr & Mrs Potato Head. You can see the resemblance can't you?

We were tucked snugly in our beds late Wednesday evening, anticipating a 1am delivery time, when Craig's phone rang. The receiver could take our load ahead of time, so we jumped into action, fired up the truck, and headed to Railex. By midnight they had unloaded the 42,000 pounds of freshly dug up potatoes and we were the recipients of a new dispatch.

Just 10 miles away was Columbia Cold Storage in Kennewick, WA, and they had over 44,000 pounds of frozen steakhouse french fries for Red Robin Restaurants that needed to be picked up at 4am. I guess those offers of endless fries with your purchase of a burger is going over well. We used the empty Railex lot to park in, and grabbed a few more hours of sleep before heading over to the shipper. Wouldn't you know it, we get there, and they tell us they are running a couple of hours behind schedule. No worries, we are on the clock and getting paid, so we sit back, relax and catch a couple more Z's.

At 7:30am we are loaded and ready to fuel and scale the load. After some adjusting and figuring out just how much we could fuel up without going over the weight limits, we head south. The skies were blue and for one of the first times since we have been on this west coast run, no clouds, which gave us a clear, beautiful view of Mount Hood.

We decided to call it a day at Biggs Junction although it was only noon. But with all the interrupted sleep we got, and the knowledge that this load didn't deliver in the Los Angeles, CA area until Monday morning, we were more than happy to park the truck to give us a nice river front view and enjoyed the scenery. I bet the remnants of that old Hotel did a booming business back in the day!