Under A Load

In the previous post I mentioned how my company does not like to have us drive around without a trailer firmly attatched to the tractor. So I was a bit surprised yesterday morning when they told me to drive over 160 miles to pick up an empty trailer. Either that or sit around for a day or more until something closer comes along. Oh no, I'll take it. Besides bobtailing is fun.

You get so used to driving with a trailer, you feel like you're in a race car when you don't have one. You can actually Get up to freeway speed before you get on the freeway!

I'm also not allowed to drive when I go home. My son makes fun of how wide I take turns and how slow I crawl up to red lights and stop signs. My wife makes fun of how I alwas put my hand on the gear selector and step on the imaginary clutch. (our car is an automatic) What can I say? You spend all day every day driving one vehicle, you get accustomed to it. It's hard to turn that off when you drive something different for one day every five or six weeks.

I'm currently working my way from Ohio to Texas where this load delivers. Today I had to have another tire repaired or I should say replaced. There was no repairing this one. Someone had locked up the brakes long enough to grind away the tread until the threads were showing through. Weird though, the other tires on that same axle were just fine. I'll probably spend the rest of my life wondering how they did that...