My goodness what a beautiful day it was today! And today's load that I picked up in Liberty, SC turned out to be an interesting one. I am carrying five military kitchen containers (or whatever you want to call them). Definitely not something I could crawl on top of to fix straps. I had to get the guy who loaded them to throw them over because my toss just didn't have enough oomph behind it! But he was really cool about it. He told me not to feel bad...he's had plenty of guy truckers who couldn't get them over either. And I got the straps so tight I might even have trouble undoing them. But hey...that's a good thing!
So I'm about two hours from the receiver. I had enough hours left to make it up there, but I decided to stop early so I'd actually be able to find a parking spot (as they start filling up around 6 pm). And I also didn't want to try parking in PA (where I'm going) since you aren't allowed to run your truck to keep warm when you're parked there. So I'll just get up early, fuel up and head on up. I waited to fuel in the morning because I wanted to hurry up and get a parking spot. And I got lucky again...another one that I could pretty much straight back in to. My favorite parking spots! Getting the hang of swinging these split axles is still a work in progress. Not to say I haven't gotten into parking spots that I couldn't straight back in to...it's just it takes me a little longer and few more tries to get it in (which can be frustrating for me and for other truckers that I'm holding up while I try to get in the spot). Having help from other truckers to get parked the other night was a very rare thing. Usually they all sit around watching you for their own amusement. Can't say I haven't been amused at the antics of other truckers before. Especially when it's a Swift truck (they get picked on all the time but there's a reason for that).
So I bid you adieu for tonight my friends. Stay safe and enjoy the beautiful weather!
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