Nice night. Woke up at about 09:00 mountain time, waited a couple hours and hit the dock. Within about 45 minutes, we were loaded with 42,000 pounds of cookies (or cookie dough - we're not sure - but why would you need to freeze cookies?) and headed back to the interstate.
Before going too far, we scaled the load at a Cat scale in Oakland. Little place in the armpit of Oakland. Badly laid out, too. No staging for the scale except on the street. Only one way out, too - unless you want to drive down a street flagrantly marked "no trucks". Very tight.
Least appealing neighborhood I've visited in the past month.
Headed north on I-80 (yeah, East, but the Compass said north, so north it is). Past Sacramento the road starts to get hilly. Spent a lot of time in 5th, slowly climbing long grades up through Taho and Donner. As if that's not bad enough, CADOT blocked off one land for a bunch of miles while they worked on a few hundred feet of roadway. Took about 2 hours to deal with the traffic backup there. Took 6 hours to go 230 miles.
On the way down, east side, I noticed a number of really appealing places to park and play in the water. Was hard to stay in truck and go on.
Stopped in Reno for fuel and food. Fuel was.. well.. fuel. Food was Prime Rib and Baked potato at one of the local casinos. $11 for dinner, and I needed a hand-truck to get me back to the truck.
Lots of smoke in the sky since we left Oakland. Half of California is burning, to hear the radios talk about it. Either way, it ruined the views normally available to you as you cross Donner and pass Reno. In fact, all the way up to Winnagana (SP) NV, the sky was heavy with smoke.
Not like it was in Denver for the Hayman fire, of course, but enough to ruin the view.
Trainer is driving now.. I ran out of hours. Probably going to stop at the first place we find where the temp is less than 75degrees.
Some discussion if we'll stop in SLC tomorrow for my solo test. Not sure what's happening on that score yet.
Trainer found a nice big lot at a truck stop in Wells, NV for the night
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