Going Back To Indy

So after I got empty Friday and got the trailer all cleaned up, I was dispatched to go pick up two picks of produce over around Pharr,TX and take it back to Indianapolis Sunday afternoon, then leave out of there Sunday night with a multi drop grocery store run over in Illinois. So I arrived at my first pick up around 12:30 PM and they said they had one order, but the other order they were waiting on to come over from Mexico around 2:30, So I went back to my truck and waited. About 3:30 I went back in to check on my load and they said they had it on the lot, just waiting to unload it and sort it. So about 4:30 I called my next pick up and they said they were closing at 6:00, so I ran over there and got that loaded one order, went a few miles down the road loaded the second order and returned to the original shipper, thinking surely by now they'd have me a door. By this time the trucks were lined up all around the block, not uncommon, happens every evening on this street. So they still did not have it ready, so eventually I left and went to the local truck stop and parked, finally they called and I'm thinking I'm going to get a door, but NO, they tell me now I must wait until tomorrow because something was wrong, they didn't get what they were supposed to.

So I spent the night there and 10:30 next morning I went back and checked in, the lady says they have it now , they're unloading it, she'll have me a dock in twenty minutes. So a couple hours later I went back in again and I'm like what the heck is going on here, she says they had to restack the load, and now it would be another hour. So FINALLY late afternoon they got me in a dock and I was loaded up and on my way. Although now it was going to be to late to make the 1400 mile trip by Sunday night, so I would just have to go ahead and deliver on Monday morning. So that's what I did, showed up first thing Monday morning here at our main customer in Indianapolis.

On the way back I stayed the night at an old abandoned truck stop. Sad to see the old mom and pop truck stops shut down, but there is something cool about old run down stuff. So the next morning as I'm walking around taking pictures these two girls pull up in a car, they're like we only got 12 miles of gas left, can we buy fuel here? I said no, I'm pretty sure this place is closed down!