My dedicated GM run started up again last week. So once again I am going to be traveling between Perrysburg, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee, with frequent overnights in Glendale, Kentucky. This run is just long enough to keep it interesting, and short enough to get me home on a regular basis, so it is just about perfect for me right now. Now how long it will last is another question entirely. It takes a little over eight hours of driving to get to the delivery point, and I have figured out pretty much how to get there with no problems and be a little early without wasting a lot of time.
Unfortunately this morning the schedule got shot all to heck. I was planning on leaving the yard at three-thirty this morning, but because I had to wait for a tow truck, I didn't leave until shortly after five. The reason I had to wait was because my trailer loaded with twenty thousand pounds of engines and twenty thousand pounds of racks to hold the engines, had been dropped in a soft spot. This is not a new spot in the yard and most people avoid putting anything there, more due to the fact that it is part of where we usually drive than any other reason. 
So this loaded trailer sat over the weekend, and when the sun was up and warmed the ground it settled, then the water and muck refroze around the landing gear. Which is how I found it this morning, not only was it frozen in place, it had suck to low for me to get my truck underneath it to pick it up. So I got to see Hammer Towing's big truck in action and it was impressive. The ease with which the truck picked up the trailer was something to see. When he set the trailer back down on timbers, one cracked in half with a sound like a gun shot.
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