Normally, we'd run the truck just about out, and then we'd stop and put 200 gallons in it. But we're not going to do that now. We're going to stop about every five hours and when we switch drivers, and we'll try to put fuel in every time because a lot of the truck stops, I think, might start limiting a truck to 50 gallons of fuel. |
We don't need to be taking fuel off of I-20 when there are other people who need the fuel there. We're going to stay as far away from it as we can. |
When we got west of Birmingham (Ala.), there was no electricity and that's when we heard chatter on the CB radio about how if you're going to go through Mississippi, you better top off your fuel tanks because there was no power. We went across Mississippi and that was spooky because I've been through there I don't know how many times, but to go through Meridian (Miss.), which is a fairly good-sized city, and see it pitch black was strange. |