14 Aug 2019
Moving day for Joe and Rebecca. I awoke at 4:45am, felt like my eyes were bleeding. Turned the shower water to scold, lathered up, went back to sleep.
Awoke a 1/2 hour later.
Joe asked I come down at 6:15am, I was there at 6am so little Joe didn't worry himself much. I was tasked with hauling Joe's friend's car hauler.
Joe had a flatbed gooseneck trailer loaded high. Also had a 30 foot gooseneck livestock trailer for the horses.
Typical of Joe, the trailer was stuffed to the max and most likely overloaded. They had too much weight in the front of the trailer, thus too much tongue weight, but I let it ride.
Also typical of Joe, he had everything planned just right, so 4 trucks wouldn't be on his old property trying to hook up trailers at once. He had me hook up first. Not five minutes passed, a black Ford F150 showed up, it was Joe's friend from Bryan, Ohio, Rick. Rick was assigned my trailer because it's much smaller and lighter, more suited for his naturally aspirated 5.4L gas V8.
They loaded up my bakkie bed with around 1/2 ton and the trailer weighed approximately 5 to 6 tons fully loaded by the seat of my pants feeling. My bakkie did sag a little, but my truck is rated for 13,000 pounds towing capacity using receiver hitch, 18,000 pounds using a gooseneck or 5th wheel hitch, so it gave my bakkie a workout though she handled all the weight in stride. I averaged 11.2 mpg for the trip north to Joe's farm, not bad considering all the stops and starts until one gets to the Interstate highway.

Everything was loaded except for a 1 more trailer load I'd have to come back for. I was tasked with towing the car hauler, swap for my trailer, return to get last load, return to Joe's new farm, swap back to car hauler, bring car hauler back to Joe's old house, Rick would drop my trailer off there as well, swap back with my trailer, I'm done for the day. Sure enough, while I was heading south with my trailer for to load up the last load, I saw the gooseneck flatbed traveling north, 45 minutes later, I saw the livestock trailer heading north. Everything was working like clockwork.
It was a cool morning, typical, but the sun would come up soon. I found the line in the clouds fascinating.

By the time I arrived back up north at Joe's new home, the livestock and flatbed were unloaded and gone, efficiency is Joe's middle name!
I averaged 16.2 towing my trailer south then north.
I went for lunch though I ordered brek food.
I then drove up to Okemos, Mitten to buy the new Apple Magic Mouse 2.0.
Then returned to Joe and Rebecca's to help more.
Around 4pm, it was time to haul a bunch of Amish folks south to their respective home.
I delivered all back home, I averaged 21.7 mpg with no trailer, good mileage for such a heavy truck with a 6.6L direct injected diesel.
Then I went to Joe's old home to retrieve my trailer, then drove back home. I was tired.