Stevens Transport aviary

Well, I just avoided the worst of blizzard round two here in Indiana.
Last night I left my shipper in Louisville bound for west of Chicago just as the slight snow flurries began. Can't stay there, no room anyway, and nearest stop is a mom and pop about 12 miles up that is always full. Next is about 20 miles out. By that second stop, it was light but dry snow at 22 degrees. Roads were dry and radar showed light snow ahead but Winter Storm Warnings put up between me and Indy for the overnight. North of Indy was only an advisory, and I knew if I got past Indy I'd most likely be good for rest of my 11 hours up to maybe Remington IN. But, that stuff was getting heavier south of Indy and was starting up around me in south Indiana.
Next stop, 15 miles north, I pull over, check lights and tires etc, get a snack and hit the bathroom, then get online for radar. Light snow falling outside, lot and streets still dry and clear. Radar shows a different story just north of my next preferred stopping possibility about 30 miles north, MM 50, with secondary and rest stops between, in case.
Set off, and key up the phone to the weather app, and watch, and hit MM 50 for a preferred stop, maybe get to Indy.
Mile marker 30, things are fine. Road clear but starting to show dampness where no wheels running. No winds. Snow light and mostly blowing off into roadsides/ditches etc.
MM 40, passing by my last stop chance before my preferred stop. This is a rest area with crappy parking for trucks. Almost empty. I intend to stop at MM 50 and check weather ahead. CB says it's about the same to the north. Phone says so too. Figure by the time I hit MM 50, I'll be seeing heavier snow and the roads might show signs I need to pull off anyway if it doesn't stop it.
MM 42, refresh radar on phone because the snow flakes are bigger and more frequent.
Heavier snows almost on top of me now, and all the way to Indy.
MM 45, the left lane has snow enough to see faint tracks, a few cars and a FedEx go past me as I've slowed to 55. Few lights behind me and far behind me. Few coming south, and most have snow on them and going slower than 70, probably 60-65. Get one CB reply to weather north, saying about the same and asking how behind me.
MM 47.5 I'm watching the left lane disappear and doing 50. Great big flakes falling heavy, no winds, hard to see as far as my lights.
MM 48 Beginning to wish I'd stayed back at the little rest area that was almost empty when I passed it 8 miles back. Lane lines are pretty much gone, doing 45 with hazards on.
MM 49 Wishing I could stop on the shoulder. Even if I could, I didn't know where the concrete ended and the grass began. No sign of the left lane, I'm in tracks in the snow in my lane, mostly 4wheelers as I don't see anything like tandem tracks, and I don't see any lights ahead of me. The ones behind me look like car lights. Thoughts of the school story about pulling over in heavy snow into a rest area, parking, and getting hit in the back of the trailer by a 4wheeler who complained "Why'd you stop? I was following your tracks!"
One mile to go, there's the exit sign and the amenities signs peeping through the white fog of snow.
MM 50, there is no road. I'm making my own. Doing 35. There are tracks, and I'm hoping they had a better view when they went through. Or they pulled off here.
Finally, the little square green 'EXIT 50 ->' sign!
Where's the exit ramp? No one's taken it? Oh, there's some faint tracks. Hope they got it right. Don't see them ahead on the side anywhere!
Bit of that weightless feeling as I go from 5 to 4th. Slow down way too slow if anyone was behind me and take my ballcap off. I actually need to wipe my forehead of sweat. Dripping along beside my ears, too.
No need to check radar, I know where I'm staying for the night already, and I'm grinning at it's lights already.
Only possible problem, is there a space?
The place is less than half full. I get to choose anywhere. No hope of any lines, though, so I have to judge the position by the few trucks already here. I find one with no snow under it at all, don't see any yellow lines, so figure it's in good position. I back in behind it, tail to tail, almost under a light.
Go inside, wash up, have a salad bar, watch the weather channel, joke about getting to Chicago no problem, it's just snow, with the other three drivers. Though one of them is going to Louisville. Just not tonight as planned.
Head to the truck, and it's sleeting/raining/misting over a good three inches of snow. The stuff pecks at the tractor for the next few hours as I wonder if I will even leave in eight more hours.
3am, woken up by sleet hitting the tractor. It's almost silent otherwise. Look outside, more snow, my hood is covered, other trucks are covered, and I don't see any tracks in it from recent arrivals.
7am, check-call and weather check. Hope to roll in two hours. Nope. Winter Weather Advisory until 1pm. Hazardous conditions reported all the way to Indy and a bit north. A few more trucks had pulled in, and they stuck out like sore thumbs, mostly because they weren't almost all white.
Crack my door and sniff. Smells like more snow to me. Move the wipers to keep them from freezing tighter and hit the bunk with an alarm set to 10.
10am No further snow. Nothing on radar, no winds, roads cleared all the way to Chicago.
Unfortunately, one driver lost his life hitting the back end of a slowed truck about 50 miles north of where I stopped. I saw the mangled wreckage a couple of hours ago as I came north. I'm now in Gary, waiting at the TA for them to clear another wreck one mile ahead, and then for the evening rush hour to calm down before I finish the last 50 miles of this trip.
Only problem is, radar shows a big, fat blob of moderate snow moving into the area. Could get a couple more inches. Bleh.