Texas Trip

Well I didn't make it into Texarkana at all on Monday, I was hoping to at least get that stop off, but again I overslept and so I had to wait until Tuesday morning to get started. I showed up about 10:30 and got the pallet off and moved on to Kemp, TX and delivered another pallet of food, then I made it to Garland and got those doors unloaded before they closed. That was the end of the day however, as I wasn't in time to make it to my next stop in Frisco to unload furniture. So I went to sleep there on the street and got up around 10 pm and went a few miles to the local Planet Fitness and got my workout in and I showered there and headed to bed in their parking lot.

I got up this morning about 6 am and headed on up to Frisco and parked in the lot of the shopping center and waited for the store to open at 10 am, the two helpers showed up and we unloaded the furniture real quick. I already had all the chairs unwrapped and lined up ready to go, that sped up the process quite a bit. I knew I was getting behind on this load and I had a lot of work to catch up today.
I cant believe the prices people pay for this amish furniture, I mean they were selling common night stands for $1000, and dressers for $3000! It's amazing this stuff sells fast too, well I'm glad somebody can afford it. So I got out of there and headed back into Dallas and delivered three stops of doors to local windows and doors dealers, and then one in Arlington and one in Ft Worth and finally a pallet of food to a store in Ft Worth, so I called the next furniture stop in Granbury just over half hour away and let them know I was coming with eight chairs, and I was able to get in there and get unloaded just before they went home, which really helped me along my way now.

It's a beautiful little down on the square, challenging for a truck though in the middle of the afternoon.

So I left there and headed to the Flying J here in Waco, got a shower and dinner at Dennys and settled in for the night. My first stop in the morning is just down the road from here at a furniture store in Lott, TX. Then I will make my way on into Houston, over to San Antonio and finish up in Donna, TX just outside McAllen.


It's been a sad day in my family, about 1 pm EST I got a call from my mom saying that my grandpa has passed away, it was no surprise he was nearly ninety years old and has been in bad health for awhile now. Just a few weeks ago the hospital sent him home because there was nothing more they could do because his heart was to weak for any operations, so he went home with hospice care, so we all knew he was dieing. My grandpa spent many years on the road as a heavy hauler, he moved construction equipment, he loved trucking, He told me several years back he'd still be on the road if he could. Back in the late 70s he was in his company yard chaining down a load of pipe on a flatbed when the load shifted and rolled off the deck, he was not able to get completely out of the way in time and his leg was severely injured. He had to live the rest of his life with a walker and he was not able to work again. I always looked up to my grandpa and I wanted to be like him. He loved trucking, watching Andy Griffith and westerns on TV, and southern gospel music. So I would say I have turned out a lot like he was. He will be greatly missed, my grandma is still with us, but she too is not in very good health. They were married for over sixty years, so I'm sure this is not going to be easy for her to handle.