"ON THE ROAD AGAIN"..(3)
Well..Another Week is Over On The Road ..I Started At Seekonk Massachusetts..And Went To Detroit Michigan..From There..IWent To (Holy) Toledo Ohio..Then It Was On To Shelbyville Kentucky...Then To Glasgow Kentucky...And Then All The Way back To W Wareham Massachusetts..And Then To Dighton massachusetts..And Then back to Seekonk Massachusetts..Im back LONG eNOUGH fOR A 34 hOUR RESTART oF mY 70 Clock(Thats How long A driver Can Work In A 7 Day period)Anyway..Along The way..These Are Some of The things I Thought Were Worth Noting
The First Thin I saw Was A Baby Deer That Didnt make it to The other Side of The Highway(Iguess The Mother Waited For him To get Up..And Then Finally Had To Leave him)..How sad I Thought...Then i came Across A Pheasent Just Walking Along The Highway...
Came Across 5 Red headed Vultures Fighting Amongst Themselves over Another dead Deer In Pennslyvania
Somebodys Missing A little Brown Poodle In Ohio..Hes Laying There Dead Along the Highway 80..And Aalso In ohio When Somebody gets To Their destination..They Will Ber Missing 1 Shoe(Its in The middle of the road...
And The Birds Have Figured Out That At truck Stops..All They have To Do Is Pick The Bugs Off The Radiators of The Trucks When They Are Fueling(theyre Smarter Than You Think
Heres A Good Name For A Road In Ohio(Needmore Road)
Coming North On I 71 In Kerntucky..at The top Of A Steep Grade..There She is..A Full View In All Her Glory.."Cincinati"(Now..Its Anothger Story To get by This City Though)40 Minutes
Did You Know That Highest Point On Route 80 is In Pennsylvania?(2,250)...
And In Southern Ohio Theres A Route 666(ImNot Ever Driving On That Road)
The Last Thing You Want In Your Truck is AJumping Spider..He Landed On My Arm(Scared The hell Out Of me..And Then Jumped Away(Im Sure hell Be Back to Do it Again)
IN kentucky I Came Across One of Those Amish Guys Riding In His 1 Horse carriage(All Dressed In Black)
And Why (because Theres An Aciident On The OTHER Side of The highway)Does There have To be A Log jam on The Side Thats Accident free?(There Outts be Law For this
And Finally..There Are bThe Ones I call "The Special People"..
They Come On The Highway(They Dont look) And AtbThe lastbMoment They Slam On Their brakes because Theres a Tractor trailer there..Then They catch up To You And yell And give you The Finger because "You Didnt let Them In"(Uh..I Thought vehicles On The HighwayHad The right of Way;;Or Am I Missing Zsomething here?
And To Top It All off...Somebody Lost bPart Of their Load Id say;;Thousands od Pairs of Ladies Underwear(In Every Color)All Along The Road........................
Comments (18)
A spider and I in the same truck... spells disaster
There Isnt Much Time to be On here When You Only have About 40 Hours off
But Once Again
Thanks For the Comments
........"Keep On Truckin!".....
Its Not the Driving of the truck That can kill You
The driver has a better Chance Of getting killed When nhes Out of His truck
Especially Places like Detroit
(Which Is Where I have to Go To 1st Once Again)
If you Didnt know..Its Against The Law For truck Drivers To have Weapons Inside Their truck'
Figure That one out
Only The bad guys can have Weapons
But most drivers That go Into These Areas tell me That they "Carry" Anyway
I See it That if Its yoiur Time...Its your Time
Hope it Aint Mine though....
Play it safe...and keep on truckin...
Worse I think than a spider, is an angry hornet in the truck (or more than 1).
I notice you don't speak of CB channel 19a or lot lizards. Are they still around and abundant?
Lot Lizards are probably still around..but I Only go to truck stops for Fuel And Coffee(The Pilots Have The best coffee)And getting Fuel Is Usually during The day...As far as Cbs Go...I Only Listen to The Cb To Find out Which Lane the Accident is In..So I can get in Another lane
I Saw One Truck That had A Phrase Written On The Side In big Written Letters..And It pretty Well Sums Up What You Wrote About "Better to be Judged By 12"
It Said
"Theres Nothing In This Truck Worth Dying For"............
That About says it All
Im Driving A 2009..Freightliner "Century"
Hope Your Doin Alright Ian.................
I Sleep At Rest Areas(Not truck Stops)
Aat Rest Areas Its A Lot Quieter And less Congestion....................................
I Thought i was too
But What I make In a Month In retirement
I make In A WEEK Doing This Job.....................
Got to get to The Truck Terminal
Load Up The Truck With What im bringing
And as "Jackie Gleason" Would say
"And Away We Go!"
"Keep On Truckin!".......