My truck is here!!! Yippeeee!

Only took FOUR WEEKS from Sacramento to Long Island. And then it was at the depot in King's Park, I needed to return the rental car to JFK and it absolutely had to be back there by very early Saturday morning because they wouldn't extend the rental on that type of car any longer--and all this had to be worked around my work schedule, my daughter's work schedule, and the limited opening hours of the car depot.

How the heck was it all going to get done???

Then ping, the little light bulb went on. My truck was at the depot--and the depot was just a towing company who contracted with the vehicle shippers. So I called them and asked if they could deliver: they could, at a price, but not until Friday or later. So I said I'd pay them double if they could deliver straight-away on Thursday. "I'll phone you back in an hour," he said. 120 minutes later my truck was sitting in the driveway :-)

Also called Hertz and asked how much extra they'd charge me to drop rental off at the local office rather than all the way back at JFK. Had to speak to manager Bill at JFK. He worked it--and authorised me to return it to Middle Island agent, just 12 miles away from home, at no extra charge. So we returned it early Friday.... and now we're all set! No more rentals!