Happy New Year!

A lot has happened in the more than two weeks since I last posted. The BIG news (for me) is that I have a new trailer behind my truck now. Woo-Hoo! It is 37' long (versus 25' before); has a dove-tail with ramps (for EZ loading of vehicles); and has dual tandem axels (bigger payload). Here it is:



And I got my first load just today with it. I REALLY like this. ALOT. I went to Emory, TX (half-way between Dallas and Texarkana) and picked it up at the factory two days ago.

The bad news is we still do not have everything in place for our federal authority (permission) to conduct interstate commerce. We DID get the state authority so we are 'legal' intrastate. There are SOOOOOOO many i's to dot and t's to cross that it just takes longer than I wish. But I am hopeful that we will get that letter from the feds in a few days. In the meantime, we make do with the local work.

So those are the current events. Now for some 'catching up' on old news.

When I left IL on Dec 18th I did NOT go to AR to pick-up my youngest. For reasons NOT to be aired in public, he decided not to go. His loss.

I spent two weeks in paradise doing the usual - motorcycle, library, beach, more motorcycle and ringing in the new year (more than once). But before I knew it reality set in and I was on the road again. I left FL and went 1100 miles to pick-up the trailer and then 700 miles back to IL - in just over two days! Hey, that's what I do; drive.

So now I am back in Belleville (just outside St. Louis) where it was 10 degree's this morning when I left the house. It has begun to snow ouside now. They are saying 2-4" by noon tomorrow. I probably won't leave the house. Then the REALLY cold weather moves in. Oh well, it IS winter.