Riders of the Storm

It's been a while since I have been able to get to an Internet connection, and have some free time to post, so let's see how much I can catch you up on.

I have made a run through Canada, delivering widgets to one place, and bringing whatnot back to the States. Most of this was done in ice and snow, and would qualify as no fun in my book, but I know the drill. At least this was done with loaded trailers which don't slide around as much as the empty ones do.

My run out of Canada took me to Belleville N.J. Can I just say that if one has to go to New Jersey for ANY reason, don't make it Belleville. It looked more like Tijuana what with the narrow streets and broken wires hanging from the phone poles. For those of you that can appreciate a blind back on a one way street, uphill to a broken loading dock, with 78,000lbs of truck, you will get my drift!

Anyway, I spent the night at our South Kearny drop lot and had fabulous parking! I usually don't get to park so close to the facilities, but luck be a lady tonight, there I was in the front row! The good news was the weather was 67 degrees and blue sky, man I haven't seen a day like this in a while, amazing what a little sunshine will do for the spirit.

I picked up a load in Jersey City, another not fun place to cruise in a semi, and am on my way to WI. via the Seville OC, which is where I am right now waiting out some bad weather. Things are supposed to clear soon, but this run takes me off the interstate (US 30, one of my favorite drives!) and I want to give the road crews a chance to clean things up before I leave.

Sorry about the audio, still on the learning curve with that!

The forecast is calling for more of the white stuff everywhere it seems, so be safe out there. Remember, you may be driving home from work, but the truck driver beside you in traffic is still AT work.