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...]
Houston, TX to Greenville, SC – Day 4 Driving Atlanta Rush Hour Traffic
Today we'll continue our trek across the southern States of Alabama, Georgia and into South Carolina before making delivery in Greenville. If you haven’t watched the previous videos in this series, I recommend you watch them first: Day 1: Hooking the Loaded Trailer in Houston Day 2: Crossing Louisiana on I-10 Day 3: Crossing Mississippi and Alabama We'll have to fight Atlanta rush hour traffic along the way, but we'll see … [Read more...]