After 25-1/2 hours, they finally came out to get me to bring the trailer into their facility, drop it at the rack and come back out to wait for them to unload it.  A 3 to 7 hour proposal, but I'm finally going to get out of here today.  My goal will be to make it to a truckstop just south of Neelyville, MO today and then finish the rest out tomorrow.  I've stopped at that truckstop several times on this particular trip in the past - just lack of available hours to get any further down the road.  Under normal circumstances, you start in St Louis in the morning, finish the drive out up here and then get the trailer unloaded and then start heading back. So you are already down 8 or more hours off the on-duty clock.

I won't have that problem today, but I doubt I"ll want to drive past 10:00 pm, which is when I expect to hit Neelyville.  That is, if I get out of here when I figure I will. I have to say I wouldn't have minded another day here, easy money.  I thought I would have such a chance earlier when I saw all kinds of service vehicles coming in, including a truck with a new heater blower - big ole' giant thing used in the chemical process - and then a crane to lift the old one down and the new one back up.  As it turns out, it only shut down half the plant, the other half still functioning so they were able to get their ethylene levels down enough to be able to take my truck full of it.  They're still busy installing that new one.

As it stood, I went to my favorite restaurant 12 miles away, ate the skirt steak they are famous for and now am stuffed lol.

Enough of this. The Republicans are done with the defense of Trump and now question and answer session going on starting tomorrow.  I'll be watching as much of that as possible. And after that whether they are going to allow additional witnesses, which I suspect will be a contentious engagement, but time will tell. As for today? They are venting off the vapors in my trailer and I will be leaving soon to hit the endless road.