Laredo-the next few are of the sun setting in Laredo

I am in Joplin, MO. I got a load out of Del Rio, TX last Fri, Kathy said it was 110 degrees when I stopped enroute to pick-up in Eagle Pass and it sure fel like it. I got back to the AC shop in Laredo and they fixed (another new compresser and clutch-no charge though) my AC. The load delivered in Tulsa last Sat morning, I got booked on a load this morning going to Fredericksburg, Va. On my way to get it they cancelled, oh well at least I got paid to move 100 miles closer to home. If I don't make it home over the 4th, I am in sheep dip!

Waiting at GM Crossdock Laredo at daybreak

Sundown in Laredo

Laredo

Cool sky on a hot morning just after daybreak

At the Fjying J in Blacksburg, SC

I want one

Nice Coupe in CT.

Cool Coupe at the TA (Travel America) truckstop in Connecticut

April 20th-June 5,2009

These are my travels for the last few weeks. Streets and trips says (I didn't use these exact routes though) that it was 15,898.7 miles and 30 days, 7 hours drive time.

Stormy evening in Laredo

I got a load out on Tuesday and now after another adventure, I am here in Clinton, Tennessee.

Stormy Red Sky at twilight in Laredo

More mechanical trouble

This is my brand new AC compresser, notice the lack of a pulley and belt.

My other compresser (pics follow) went out. It barely made it to Laredo, with only one belt now if you lose your AC pulley you break down, not just lose AC great design eh. Well I limped down to Laredo with it barely hanging on, paid over 500 dollars to have a new AC compresser put on and the dam thing mangled the pulley and threw it and the belt off about 800 miles later. I was on a load to Clinton Tennessee,and just hit the Mississippi line, so I had to find a new belt that was shorter and bypassed where the old AC pulley was. It wasn't easy, mine had 7 grooves and the only 7 groove ones they had were 2 big. They had a 6 groove and an 8 groove that would work so I bought the 8 groove and with a razor blade cut 1 groove off the entire circle. I did find out 1 neat thing, this truck can drive with no belt at all, as long as you have enough battery juice. The wind spins the clutch fan enough to keep it cool, thank goodness or I woulda had another tow bill.

At least I had Air Conditioning for about a day and a half, I don't think it will help but hitting it with a hammer might help my mental state right now. I am still trying to find out what the place in Laredo is going to do as far as a refund, I will let you know.

My new AC Compresser

New AC clutch wheel

My new clutch wheel

My old AC compresser lucky I made it to Laredo

Yeah I was real lucky to have made it to Laredo, then again if I hadn't maybe it would have been fixed right the first time.