After the Debate

I woke up to find it had been raining all night, so I would be finding out shortly if they plugged the leaky seal that my windshield has. You can also see from the picture, how small the parking lot was at that Red Roof Inn. All the spots were like this all the way around the building, with only one entrance to the lot from the street. Really not conducive for parking a truck, at least I didn't have to worry about a trailer.

I wanted to get going early so got moving right after my ten hour break was done, at 6 AM. There was still a leak in the windshield, and once I figured out how to lock in the second drive axle, have to have the parking brake off for it to work, I got out of that tight little place and back to the yard.

Finding the trailer went quickly, and it was back on the road in this steady rain. The CB immediately was telling be about a rolled truck just East of where I got on I-24. A FedEx trailer was overturned just past the onramp going the other way. I couldn't help but think of the rolled FedEx Truck in Texas when I heard that.

It wasn't to long until I was on I-65 heading North, since I was trying to get out of town traffic was really light for me. But it didn't take long until I found another accident. This was on my side but with one car off to the left side and the rest all the way to the right, I was able to get through with only a tap on the brakes to drop a few mph. The next big accident was at about the 92 MM on the south bound side. This one shut down three of the four lanes, and was backing up traffic for several miles. It was simply a sea of headlights as I drove past it.

The rest of the way home was fairly uneventful, I didn't run across any more accidents, though I heard there was one closer to Louisville on I-71 south. Which has had more state troopers, bears and diesel bears (DOT), working it the past two days than any time I have driven it so far.

It was early enough in the day that the construction mess through Dayton didn't slow me at all on I-75, a project due to be done in 2011.

Today I grab another trailer and head back down south. The air is cold and the sky is clear, so hopefully I shouldn't run into any accidents along the way.