still trying to figure this out

Ok, I've been trying to find how to put another post on here for the last hour. Much harder than driving a truck.
Well, I finally made it out of Oklahoma City on mon. afternoon. I found a load on the load board, and a very nice lady by the name of Kathy, working for Jamison logistics, gave me a load from Ft. Leonardwood Mo. to Ft. Rucker Al. It was a 400 mile deadhead (no load) I woke up at 6:30, am, and called my customer to get directions to my pic up. I was told that there was no load going to Ft. Rucker. Being a bit disapointed, I called Kathy and let her know what was up. She said she'd check on it and call me back. After a while, I got another phone number, to the people who actually had the load I was looking for, (the trouble with a large army base) and I was on my way to get my load. It was raining like crazy, but I found where I was supposed to be. I had to pick up a 2 1\2 ton truck, duce and a half. I didn't have to break the trailer down, I just backed up to a loading dock, and he drove it on. So much nicer than to have had to break the trailer down in the rain. I chained it down and away I went. Now Ft. Leonardwood Mo. is a really nice place, (if your not staitioned there) But going from there to Ft. Rucker Al. is not a good route. By that I mean, there is no good way to go. I got on sr. 17, which goes thru the hills, and woods. Not so bad at that, but the thing only has 8 foot wide lanes. My truck is that wide, which ment that I had to keep my drivers side wheels on the yello line all the way. The road had no shoulders at all. It went from black top to ditch. It took me four hours to go 120 miles, and I hadn't stopped once!!! The other interesting tidbit they forgot to tell me about was that the parking brake didn't work on the duece and a half. Most of the army trucks nowdays have automatic transmissions, so you can't park them in gear, you have to park them in nuetral, and apply the parking brake.....if it has one. This one didn't. I had to stop the first time I had a chance, which was 120 miles later, and put a pull chain, and a drag chain on it, plus nail boards in front of and behind the tires to keep it from rolling back and forth on the trailer.
Other than that, it was uneventful. Got it off in Ft. Rucker today around 2;30pm, 814 miles, left yesterday morning around 11:30. 27 hours. Not to bad seeing as though the law says that I must take 10 hours off after driving or being on duty for 11 hours. Too bad the people makeing the law hasn't spent a little time in a truck or done any trucking. They might understand why their logging rules are so out of touch. I could go on, but I won't. This is boring enough.
I'm in Pensacola Fl. tonite, sitting at the knights Inn off exit 7, on us.10. It' not the nicest motel I've been in, but it's clean, I have my own bathroom, (you can't appreciate that unless you've spent time in a truck, a week at a time.) My own shower, (equally as important) a comfortable bed, and last but not least, wi-fi.
I'll load my load tomarrow morning, I had to call today and let them know when I'll be in so they can have a wrecker, (very large wrecker) there to load my burned out garbage truck. It weighs around 30,000Lbs. and it doesn't run. The cab caught fire, and everything is burned out. I'll haul it back to the factory where they made it, and they will disassemble it, and rebuild it like new. And, I'll get home. I haven't been home for two weeks, I get cranky after not being home for two weeks. I need Rhondas soothing voice and really good cooking to revive me.
OK, enough for tonite. I'll log on again when I can, and I'm working on getting some more pics from my camera to the computer. More on that later. L8ter