Tuesday 7 September 2010

would you beleive it

H ad a lovely rest sat and got away 0430 sunday, so i would miss any holiday traffic. An hour down the road at a small town of Harve got stopped on the scales for a weight check. 5,30 in the morning and the lovely police man wanted to check my records, all was in order and sent on my merry way, half an hour down the road got stopped again in another scale, luckily the previous officer gave me a receipt of my check so i showed it to the policeman explaining that i had been stopped already,he let me go with a have safe day. Nope i could'nt let it go, being sunday i asked if all his mates were out this morning and earning double time. he didnt hear me, lucky i thought, as i did'nt want to spend the rest of sunday banged up. I swear i didnt see another vehicle for 2 hrs it was jus me and the open road, wonderful.
Found Bettendorf Iowa and went t bed and tipped early next morning. i had to wait till the next day for a trailer change so i went to the biggest truck stop in america,the TA at I 80 iowa. It was huge 800 truck places, a truck shop containing everything your budding trucker would need, i could have spent a fortune, even the wifi was free.Spoke to mum on skype.
Left next day for Montreal, didnt see much as i arrived at night and went to an indusrial est. tipped in the morning and picked up a loaded trailer for calgary 2100 miles away along the trans canadian 1.this road is the most pictuesque but the road kill can be upsetting, i saw a black bear cub by the side of the road dead, real shame, but the worst are skunks, they smell so bad, you can be driving along when suddenly it hits you thru the air vents, no warning nothing, and these little suckers can be a kilometer away and the smell gets progressivly worse till you see the carcase and drive pass up wind.