Eric Florack on May 27th, 2015

I’m running down Route 14, which is along movie western shore of Seneca Lake. No major towns along 14 that you’ve ever heard of except for perhaps Watkins Glen, site of many races. NASCAR comes here a couple times a

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I’m in the Bronx again tonight. The truck is working well, and I’m having a very productive week. Almost 1500 miles so far, which is actually quite good for this point in the week. Good thing too, given the Memorial

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2015

Tonight, I am at Columbia New Jersey. If you’ve been following along, I started my day after a 587 mile run, in the Bronx. From there I ran to mountaintop Pennsylvania, and then through the Bronx to Long Island, and

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Tonight, I’m in the Bronx. I drove down from outside Canandaigua New York, to Carlisle Pennsylvania, and from there to the Bronx. Total five hundred and seventy some odd miles. A productive day.

The truck is working fine, the weather

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2015

Well I wrote this last night, or at least most of it, and then forgot to send it. Woke up this morning and realized I screwed up majorly. Oops.

I suppose I can be excused, I ran a little over

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2015

Okay, I’m a little late submitting this one. I spent most of the day performing a rescue of a broken down driver. I took over his load, delivered it off, then got him to where he needed to be. Still,

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2015

* It’s amusing to watch Obama who had two years of an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress on his side including many Republicans now suddenly decide to take up poverty and his driving force. Wasn’t he supposed to

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Today, I started with a visit to the dentist. So, my driving day got off to kind of a late start. Which of course means that I’m probably going to be out until halfway through Saturday at least.

The truck

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Tonight I’m outside Pine Grove Pennsylvania, along Interstate 81. I delivered off at the Bronx this morning, picked up a little bit mountaintop Pennsylvania, and currently headed down to Carlisle Pennsylvania, where I will pick up a load for outside

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2015

Another average day. A little bit of rain developing here in the Northeast and that makes driving interesting at times. I had planned on washing the truck today. May still do so but it depends on how much it rains.

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Eric Florack on May 5th, 2015

Tonight I’m outside Buffalo New York, in a place I have been many times before. from here I’ll run to Batavia New York in the morning, and then from there probably down to Pennsylvania and New York City.

Kind of

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Eric Florack on May 4th, 2015

I’m in Denver,PA, as this is written, and I’m being unloaded at the moment. Unclear what’s up next, but there’s nothing unusual about that. Truck is running fine and all is well. Welcome to my world.

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* It’s so precious

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Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2015

This evening I’m just west of Syracuse New York. Syracuse is known as the Salt City, because of its early salt industry which gave for many years the largest tax revenue of any industry in the state. it’s also the

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Eric Florack on April 30th, 2015

I’m in the Bronx tonight, having delivered off in the early evening. I’ll be leaving in the early morning heading for Scranton Albany and then home.

The truck is working well, it’s been a productive week, but I’m ready for

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2015

Ok, I just have to do this one…

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Seriously, that’s where I am tonight. One of our other trucks had some problems, so I had to leave New York City where I delivered this afternoon, run halfway across Jersey, pick

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