Pilot truck

The past few days I drove the pilot truck for the taylor highway section of the drive to Eagle. It was real fun for me to have a change of pace. Robin, the normal pilot truck driver has been working 13 hour days for the last 3.5 weeks and the company required him to take some time off. We had a training day- we talked about the church almost the whole time and he showed me the ropes of leading 2 motor coaches with 44 people each safely to Eagle.
I had a couple of interesting experiences along the way. The first day we came around a blind corner and there was an RV stopped in the road completely blocking the road. He was perpendicular to the road all the way across and he wasnt moving any time soon. There was a DOT gravel pit that he had tried to turn around in, and had drug his tail end raising his drive wheels off the ground. This was a sunday, but luckily for us a guy drove up in his beat up old ford pickup (blue and white) and happened to have a key to the loader that was there in the pit. He jumped up there, scooped up some gravel and made an alternate route for us to get around the RV. When we came back by that afternoon, it was gone so we think the loader pulled him loose.
Brad was driving a motorcoach that just up and died on him at mile post 15 on the taylor hwy. He reset the batery and tried to start it up again, and it went. We called Terry our supervisor, and he said to keep on keeping on while we could. So we limped it on in to Eagle. On the way back out it died 5 times up to American Summit and 4 times up to Polly's Summit. We then made it all the way to Chicken and headed out of there with high hopes. About 10 miles out of chicken it breathed its last breath. Brad was able to drop it in neutral and back down the hill into a pull out. It ended up taking a couple of hours of phone tag and coach hopping and bag throwing, but we got our people in to tok. This ended up being a 16.5 hour day for me... talk about overtime!
My last day I over slept. I am supposed to be to Chicken by 7:30 or 8 so i can lead the coaches from there to eagle. I didnt wake up till 7:30. I had to book it down the road and got there about 8:45, which is good for the distance and road conditions. I was driving the new Tundra. I pushed it hard, but only in the places where it was safe to. My hair was all messed up and I didnt smell as nice as I would have liked, but I was there and we had a successful run and had them to Eagle on time.
One of my room mates, Karlyn, has the NLV virus- fondly called Nor Walk or just "the walk" by us drivers. This is desctibed medically as "vomiting and explosive diareah". Real pretty, I know. As you might imagine this can become pretty bad in the confined area of the cruise ships. Any how if someone gets it they get quarantined so others dont get sick. So i got back today and found out I cant go back to my apartment. So i'm staying at Phil's apartment tonight with matt, one of my other roommates.
Long story short, I have 87.5 hours in 8 days, i'm homeless, and having fun! Life is good.