Last night I completed a run that started Friday morning. After the delivery in Greenwich NY I was sent up to South Glens Falls NY and picked up a load going to Cherokee AL. It was snowing hard and getting worse. By the time I got to I88 east below Albany the road was covered. I made it as far as Bath NY on I86 and shut down there for the night. Saturday was more of the same and stayed that way until I got headed south below Erie PA. I pushed on until I got south of Cincinnati and spent that night in northern KY on I71. Sunday should have been an easy 420 mile day but the cold and salt brine that battered my truck for the last week finally caused a problem. I started having electricle problems and lost my trailer lights. I didn't want to drive without brake lights so I called for roadside service. The pigtail cable was bad and there was a defect in the receiver on my tractor. They fixed it well enough to get my brake lights to work and I limped in to their shop. After almost five hours the ordeal was over and I was moving again. By the time I dropped my load and got an empty out it was 2100.The empty trailer I got had been loaded with scrap paper that must have been damp. Now the scraps left on there are frozen to the floor and I can't sweep it out. I'm sitting in the sun hopeing to thaw so I can get ready for my next load.
While I was at the shp a FEMA truck drove up with a flat tire. The drivers came in to get service and neither one of them could speak a word of english.
Technology of the week; This week it is my iPod nano. It has 16 Gig capacity and I'm using 10.5 Gig right now. I keep it loaded with music and podcast's. I listen to tech podcasts mostly but also motivational and opinion and I can listen to all of the services from my church that I miss. I refresh iTunes and sync when I am at home on my laptop and then I have more information than I can take in for the sixteen days or so that I am out. It connects to the aux on the radio in the truck. It really fights boredom and keeps my mind in gear. I have to have my iPod.
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