Can I See Your License and Insurance Card Please?

Yep...I got pulled over and ticketed today in Lisbon, OH. I made a stupid mistake. I followed my GPS onto a road (which did not have a "no trucks" sign on it) and it was not a state road therefore I was not supposed to be on it...and therefore I received a ticket for going through that one block. Dumbass move. I can say I was very upset. Probably because I've gone at least 15 years with no tickets or accidents and I managed to have one of each in the last couple of weeks. And I was having a pretty shitty day all together when you added in some things that were going on at home.

But then...when I got home and parked my truck I felt a little better when I saw someone having a much worse day than me. Another trucker had dumped her trailer. Yep...she did not have it in the fifth wheel securely and pulled away from it dropping the trailer and tearing out the air lines. That was a much worse thing than I did. And of course she had to pay for that tow truck out of her own pocket...$200 for it to come out and lift up the trailer so she could get the truck back underneath it.

This mornings receiver meant more mud and dirt. Seems to be a common theme this week. 

And I can say I got some amusement watching them remove the bundles of wood from the trailer. Especially when they managed to mangle one "bunch" of them. In the end...they just took the forklift and pushed them off the other side since they could not figure out a way to lift them with the forklift.

Then I got to see this huge truck (?) trying to make a right turn onto the road I was coming out of in this rinky dink little town of Salineville.  He finally had to back up and go on down the hill to find another way to get to where he as going. As I went into town and pulled over to get in touch with dispatch about where I was going next, I saw the truck in a gas station. Probably a little hard to see it in the photo...but let me tell you...it was a very long vehicle. 

Although it was a bad day, I can still appreciate that at the end of the day...I made home safe and sound and my truck all in one piece. And before I turned off I-71 to head down 30 just a little down the road from my house I got a beautiful sight from the sky and it lifted the dark clouds of my day a bit. Those little bits of sun rays breaking through the grey clouds. Every time I get a view like that it takes my breath away for a moment. And after the day I had...it was needed.