Today's Journey Our Route Today (click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) Today we're finishing up our run from Perdue Hill in southwest Alabama to Green Bay, Wisconsin with this load of wood pulp. We stopped for the night last night at the Flying J in Lebanon, Indiana, about 30 minutes north of Indianapolis. It was important to get through Indianapolis last night so we wouldn't have to deal with that … [Read more...]
Awful Nashville Traffic Still Doesn’t Ruin Today’s Drive
Today's Journey Our Route Today (click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) We didn't make it as far as I wanted to yesterday, but the Dodge City, Alabama Petro was a good place to stop for the night. We'll continue north on Interstate Highway 65 through Alabama, Tennessee (where we'll run into some heavy traffic and a crazy detour) and Kentucky. The video ends as we're crossing the JFK Memorial Bridge over … [Read more...]
Driving the Back Roads of Southwestern Alabama
Today's Journey Route to Shipper (click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) We're spending over 90% of the day in rural southwestern Alabama. We're headed to a paper mill near Perdue Hill, Alabama for a load of pulp wood that needs to get to Green Bay, Wisconsin. After getting loaded, I'll show you a different type of scale procedure that we sometimes have to do. Once we leave the shipper, we've got … [Read more...]