Thursday, December 18, 2008

Ice Road Trucking

Now I am sure a lot of peple have seen the television show about the ice road up in Canada. Showing the dangers and all the other fun things they get to deal with driving on frozen lakes. The one thing I have never seen them deal with are idiots in automobiles. Driving Tuesday night along I-75 South in Ohio, It might as well have been an ice road, since it was solid ice low traction, and idiots in cars driving faster than they should. The number of times I had to slow down due to accidents was unbelivible. Fortunitly none were big trucks, though there was a Werner stuck on an ice covered hill, just couldn't get any traction to get moving. About the same spot there was a box truck in the median, way down in the median, it must have been a real treat pulling him out. Once I got down to Kentucky the driving was a lot better with the roads being only patchy ice, not solid.

Today I am in Washington, PA, unloading at Washington Penn Plastics. Unfortunitly I had a late start due to a flat tire, it had a broken off screw in it so a slow leak over night killed it. So I was only an hour late to deliver after getting that fixed. Now after waiting almost an hour for the dock they wanted me in, eventually I will get this unloaded.

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