An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Did you end up staying at the shipper like you planned? I made it to the Petro, scaled out and I am 34500 on the trailer. Tried to spread the axles and can't get enough traction on either one end or the other to spread. Now it's snowing like hell, and 4th of July has chain restrictions. AND my MT permit is a single trip permit only good thru Sunday.

 

Like this?






Woke up in Spokane to 4 or so inches of snow. 4th of July had chain restrictions, but was clear before noon. The 2nd pic is a screenshot from my dashcam of the MT side of Lookout, which had no restrictions all day but was a mess. Even the ID side of it had some snow still on the roads....they need to post pictures like that at the border where they have the "Welcome to Montana" sign.

 

Since this has to be there by the 16th when they leave until after Christmas, what will they do with the load if they can't get you out and and delivering by then? (And you can blame it on me, I touched your truck when I was grabbing your rachet binders for the back part of your load...my bad vehicle mojo must have been contagious).

You missed all the fun, coming across 90 today was a blast. Over half the way, the wind was blowing so hard, this truck could only do 64ish most of the way(getting 5.3 mpg). Then 20 or so miles before the 90/29 junction, it got slick. A couple places anything over 15 psi of boost would break traction thanks to this tail heavy, nose light load. If there would have been a place to pull off, I would have parked it. Once on 29, things mostly improved with the exception of a few slick spots. Made it to Burbank SD in the nick of time on the daylight curfew. However, my front tarp is toast...even with all the extra padding it got pushed down over some of those upright posts...and the padding has stayed on. Good thing that one little teenie weenie electrical box is all the way in the back staying dry....under plastic.

They finally got me my permits for some of the states east of IA. They have me run 74 out of IA to Indy, then 70 to 77 in OH.

The best part, these loads are light on the drives, heavy on the tail. Makes going tougher than woeing.

Yeah, but running there you miss out on scenery like this

 

And you aren't pulling a tarp on the ### end either. I filled up in Box Elder and burned 1/2 tank between there and x-26 on I-29...only ran 400 miles. Glad these Sweedish Dogs have big tanks.

I was hoping to unload Thursday, but it's 100% chance of rain and possible thunder. I wonder if they have a shelter to unload under so this "precious, weather sensitive saw mill machinery" that some of us had to tarp can unload and stay dry.