The team I swapped with apparently doesn't check out their equipment very well. The trailer I received in yesterday's swap, of course, needed repairs. So off to the nearest T/A to have the work done. Now normally I don't let it bother me. These trailers get a lot of miles on them each year and inevitably something is going to break or just plain wear out. However, today it did bother me, because the items in question were obviously that way for a long time and a lot of people have towed that trailer around and not one of them did anything about it. Me being the stickler that I am just cannot pass the buck the way it seems all too easy for other people to do. I always wonder what the next person would think of me if I dumped a problem I should of taken care of on them.
Getting the service done took three hours out of my day which ultimately resulted in me not getting as far as I would have liked. Fortunately this run has one more day on it than I need so I should still get it there in plenty of time.
Ok. Enough negativity for one day. On the other hand I spent the day driving through Wyoming enjoying the beautiful views.
A little more windy than I would prefer, but then again, it's always windy in Wyoming, because there aren't any trees to slow the wind down. Which begs the question. Where do they get all that wood for the animal stop fences and and snow barricades? 
They have these eight foot high fences on either side of the freeway with a wood post every six feet, and you know there's gotta be at least another two feet of it in the ground, so figure one ten foot post every six feet equals a lot of trees! Then there's the snow barricades (also made entirely of wood) that must be fifteen feet high and hundreds of feet long, and they're everywhere. Half the cost of that two by four you buy at your local home center is the shipping and it must of cost a pretty penny to have all that wood shipped in. Glad I don't pay taxes in Wyoming!
2 comments:
This blog is very interesting in the concept of it. I have a friend who's father is also a trucker, and up until reading this blog, I had never considered things such as food-stops and breakdowns for truckers. I'd rather refrain from using the "Keep on trucking!" saying, as you probably hear it often enough. Keep it up!
Love to see the pictures of the things you see. I've never been somewhere where there are NO trees. Amazing.
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