The day after..

After sleeping rather well, I got cleaned up with the facial cleanser clothes and baby wipes as best I could. Why people think those baby wipes actually make one cleaner I will never know since I simply felt less icky. I always have some water in the truck so brushing my teeth last night and this morning were no problem. So after double checking things on the truck adding some coolant and wash fluid, down the road I went.

It wasn't to long until I started hearing about an accident that had shut down northbound I-65 for some time, which means huge back-up. So it seems I have time to stop for a shower after all. Swinging into a Love's at the 58, I found out that the accident was at the 77 or so and the back up was to the 71 mm (mile mark, yard sticker, etc). Checking out my map I found a way around it on 31W so off to the shower.

After my shower the radio (cb, squawk box) still was telling how bad things were, but my initial reroute still sounded good so up to the 65 to catch 31W and then get back on at the 81. This detour rapidly turned into a line of trucks moving at a very slow pace. So to travel what would have taken less than half an hour on a clear highway, I managed to do it in about 90 minutes. Some pleasant scenery though, lots of cows staring at the trucks like this was the highlight of their day, or more like what the heck?

This entire traffic mess was made slightly more annoying by the fact that if I hadn't been stopped last night I would have spent the night at the 86, Glendale, KY, Petro, and missed all this pleasantness. Things moved pretty well after that until Cincinnati, then it was one slow down and back up after another. Mostly due to construction or long cleared accidents. It wasn't until after Dayton that the highway began flowing well again. I encountered my one bit of good luck that day when as I approached the north bound weigh station (scale house, chicken coop) north of North Baltimore, the sign changed from open to closed as I got close to it. Of course, the way my trip had gone so far, I was half expecting to have to ague with an officer that the sign changed to closed, really.

Back in the yard I wrote up the truck and trailer for what the DOT had said was bad, for a third opinion on it. This was mainly because both will be traveling through there again and it would be bad to have the same items noted twice for the same vehicle. Bad for me, bad for the mechanic that signed his name, and bad for the company. I also noted a few other things on the truck, and to home I went.

Friday I will be doing another round to Spring Hill, TN, unfortunately delivering at 11 PM eastern time. So I won't be home until Saturday afternoon at the earliest, more likely Saturday evening.