PRIME drivers...What's your 20?

I just wanted to make sure before i deposited i would'nt be charged for bounce check fees. Thanks for that info.

 

Thank you, i will deposit mine too. Even tho it's only $18.96 in this economy every little bit helps.

 

In and out of CHDSLC in 2:34. Repairs are done. Now I was focused on getting ahead of the snow.

Rolled up Parleys around 2000 with snow flurries. Light snow with no accumulation thru Evanston.

Snow accumulation and icy on the Three Sisters... Well on two of em anyway... Lines disapeared and i got a little screwy at one point on the dowhill.

It was amazing how it all kinda disappeared after the crest of the second climb.

Road was completely dry by the time I passed the Bridger TA.

In Rawlins for an 8. If Weather channel App is to be believed, I'll be gone a couple hours before the snow gets here. Don't want to be caught on this side of Elk Mountain when the snow comes.

 

Been a very busy 5 days since my last post. My new FM is on top of her game. Scanned in 3400 for the week and had to carry a Walmart multi-stop over for this week cause she said that it might send up some red flags on to many miles for the week. Spent all day Tues and Wed driving in the snow and ice in northern Maine. The only place that had bad weather in all of the North East and go figure. I had to be in it. Then getting out of my truck to wiz in a rest area I hit ice and my feet come out from under me and in a fraction of a second I know I'm going down and this is gonna hurt. I smash the back of my head on the truck steps while falling and get a flashback or deja-vu of #### didn't this happen before. I got up quickly just in case anyone was looking so I could convince them or myself that I had meant to do that. Well it only took a couple seconds for the blood to start warming the back of my neck and for me to realize that I had cut myself pretty good on the back of my beautiful bald head. When I wasn't able to stop the bleeding and the flap of torn skin was big enough to fit two fingers under I kinda figured I needed stitches. But being in the location on the back of my head where it was I knew I wouldn't be able to administer them to myself. Being the time of night, actually early morning that it was, the coming and going of people in this particular rest area in the middle of the frozen Maine tundra was limited and I figured the only help that I could possibly get was waking up the only other, sleeping, possibly warm trucker, that was stupid enough to have been driving in this forbidible weather. Now put yourself in the driver being woke up, position. 0400 or so, rest area in the middle of no where and snowing and wind blowing so hard you can't see 50 feet in front of you. Your in a dead sleep and someone starts knocking on your truck. You come out of your sleeper to find some short, fat, bald guy with blood all over his face and head, hollering over the idle of your truck, about falling and needing help to stop the bleeding in his head. Well had the tides been turned and I was the one being woke up, I can't honestly say I would have helped, or if I would have taken one look at this fat guy on the side of my truck with blood all over the place, hollering for help. Or if I would have jumped in my drivers seat in my long johns, release the brakes and get the hell out of that rest area as fast as I could. Which is exactly what my only form of help did. Watching his tail lights fade in the blowing snow I suddenly realized that I still hadn't taken the wiz that I had originally pulled in to this rest area for in the first place. After doing that I dug threw my tool box and pulled out some super glue and duct tape went into the rest room and cleaned myself up the best I could. I used almost a whole tube of glue trying to close the wound, placed a piece of paper towell on top of that and threw duct tape around my head and down under my chin so pressure could be applied while driving. I did get the bleeding to stop eventually and I had to wear my hoodie into the TA in Greenland, NH so everyone wouldn't see the idiot Prime driver with dried blood and duct tape all over his head. Now for my 20.... I am currently home in CT doing my 34 hour reset.The first 6 of them was in the Emergency room at our local hospital having them clean out the paper towell and super glue then put 13 stiches in my beautiful bald head.The Doc said I did a pretty good job getting it closed up though.

 

Holy, crap dude, What a great story, You need to tell Don Lacy about that one

 

Heck no!!!!!!! Then we would all have to listen to it over and over while on hold waiting on dispatch or live load calls.

I for one was so tired of listening about that flatbed that floated away... LOL

 

YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT, I forgot about that

 

Sitting in the millenium bldg waiting for my TNT to show up.

 

Still sitting at home in Virginia Beach. Gonna clean the truck and do taxes then back out on Monday

 

sanford maine sitting outside my 01