THOSE DARN FROZEN FRENCH FRIES AGAIN

Yes, he does have bigger dreams, that of being a crisp golden french fry! We delivered our dairy products in Lakewood, WA at 9pm Thursday night, but it was not without a little adventure. Someone failed to indicate in the dispatch that there would be a "lumper" fee to unload the trailer and that it would be $205 to unload the 22 pallets and break them down. We only had about $160 on us, they would take a ComCheck, but after hours, it is hard to get authorization.

Luckily, they let us drop the trailer and we took off down the street to the local AM/PM to the ATM to get enough to cover the cost. We quickly drifted off to sleep as they unloaded the trailer, and after 3 hours we finally got the knock on our door that they were done. At that point, we were glad we didn't decide to just unload the stuff ourselves.

A quick jaunt up Interstate 5 to Tacoma to fuel and then we headed back to the Company lot in Pacific hoping that at least one of the 4 spots they have were open. We were happy to see two spots still available and quickly backed in and went back to sleep. At around 7am we heard the beeping on the truck computer. At first I thought it was our next dispatch, but it was just our purchase order number for the reimbursement of the lumper fee and an apology for the mix up. No complaints from us, alls well that ends well.

It wasn't until 9am that we received our next assignment to go to Warden, WA, to Columbia Cold Storage to pick up our old friends, the frozen french fry. It was a four hour trip there and upon arriving early, they ushered us right into a dock for loading. About 20 minutes later we were done and this is the beauty of a small town.

After loading we asked where the nearest scale was. We were directed to go right down the street to Washington Potato. We pulled into their yard and found the scale with a readout board on the building. Craig goes into the office to inquire about paying for the use of the scale, and they tell him no cost unless we wanted a printout of the weights. Sweet, we adjust our trailer tandem, rescale, see that we are legal, and off down the road we go.

We were able to listen to the Presidential debate and watch a gorgeous sunset at the same time. We found a great little spot off to the side of the road on Highway 97 just past the Oregon border. We had a very restful night's sleep and today cool weather and sunshine are our traveling companions. With a planned stop in Chemult, OR for showers, our plans are to make it to Dunnigan, CA this evening to a little restaurant called Bill & Kathy's, with truck parking. We have heard a lot of good reviews about this place, so we are anxious to try it out and maybe enjoy some of those french fries we seem to haul around so much!