Friday June 20th - Ok I was wrong. The elevator is actually a half mile long. It was unbelievable today. There is three ADM elevators and one Cargill elevator and about three of four other elevators that I haven’t hauled into. The last load today I took to ADM’s Terminal I. I pull in and there is a double line of trucks lined up to be probed. They have one automatic probe and trucks pull on each side of it and while its probing you there is a system, just like at the bank drive through, that you send your paper in with all your info. Then you pull around to the pits, there are 3, I got sent to pits 1 or 2. They are right beside each other so it was a double line of trucks waiting there to unload. When done unloading they send your ticket out to you through a tube. The only time you must get out of your truck is to untarp and retarp your trailer. You never even talk to anybody.

Saturday June 21st - Spent the day hauling into Hutchinson and being amazed by the amount of volume that is put though the elevators. Today their was a total of 9 pits running at four differen elevators and each pit could unload a truck in about 5-8 minutes on average. About 100 trucks an hour were unloading at four elevators. I also found out today that the half mile elevator holds 18.2 million bushels. That is about 20,000 truck loads for just one place. Their is at least seven elevators in town so sometimes it seems there is more semis on the road then there is cars. We cut till midnight.