Franklin, OH

Last week I got out out of the Buffalo area with less trouble than I thought I would. Though the drive through Pennsylvania's whiteouts along I-90 was something I will not forget anytime soon.

This week I started out on Sunday with a nice load down to Alpharetta, GA. The miles from this one load are better than any one of my last three weeks. It was a quick run down to warm weather, it was in the sixties in the Atlanta area, and now I am back in the cold of Ohio. It will take about three hours or so to get to the Toledo yard, and then I will find out if there is more to do this week or just head for home.

On the way up I did have the misfortune to witness a very serious accident occur behind me. Not as it happened, but the results of what ever contact there was. All I know is that after some sort of contact a semi truck was pulling off the road to the right shoulder, and a car was rotating in several directions as it flipped off the highway. I think the air this car got was enough to come close to being able to clear a truck which is over thirteen feet high. Even worse it would have been landing in the median, which is filled with trees and rocks. Hopefully nothing to bad happened, but I am not too optimistic. I did try to call it in to 911, as did every other person with a cell phone since it took almost a minute for them to pick up the phone, mutter something and hang up. Apparently the state patrol emergency number is something else, easy to remember to, *847, who could forget that?

Back to the pilot in Franklin, as I was doing paperwork in the truck I heard over the CB that two girls were trying to get gas money to go somewhere, and shortly after that I saw them wandering the lot. To bad for me, I had my light on doing paperwork so they made a quick beeline to the truck. I just shook my head and waved them off to one girls dismayed cry of, "were not lot lizards." All I can say, female wandering a truck stop for money, and the difference to me is where? Who knows how young they really were, but I am betting under eighteen, looked to young for college.