So I'm back on the road and I'm stopping for today in Breezewood, PA. This leaves about 473 miles yet to go on this delivery which I was scheduled to make tomorrow morning. Clearly I wont make it, but I'm 99% sure this isn't a time sensitive load since it's a regular route for us. I get along quite well with my dispatchers so I don't anticipate any problems at all for giving myself the little bit of extra time off at home. It should all be good.
Now I'm going to see if I can install this uber new power inverter. If I can't, then I'll have to get to my company's shop and let one of them do the job... and try my best to stick to the diet without a microwave. Anyhow, we'll see how it goes.
EDITed to say that I just don't have the right tools to get this inverter installed properly (I need a really big-ass wire cutter). Rats. Hopefully I wont have to wait too long before I can get to the shop to have it done.
Just before I got off the highway here I passed a flipped over SUV with a RV trailer. I find it unbelievable that any dumbass with a normal (car) licence can drive something like that but you have to go through extensive training to handle a tractor-trailer. The principals are all pretty much the same and yet... idiots in RVs have no fucking clue what they're doing 8 times out of 10. It's just not right.
I'm not insensitive to any possible tragedy that may have occured in the accident. The vehicle was completely upside-down after all and that can't be good for the family vacation. But my point is that such things would never (or, much more rarely) occur if driving a getup like that required having a CDL.
Now I'm going to see if I can install this uber new power inverter. If I can't, then I'll have to get to my company's shop and let one of them do the job... and try my best to stick to the diet without a microwave. Anyhow, we'll see how it goes.
EDITed to say that I just don't have the right tools to get this inverter installed properly (I need a really big-ass wire cutter). Rats. Hopefully I wont have to wait too long before I can get to the shop to have it done.
Just before I got off the highway here I passed a flipped over SUV with a RV trailer. I find it unbelievable that any dumbass with a normal (car) licence can drive something like that but you have to go through extensive training to handle a tractor-trailer. The principals are all pretty much the same and yet... idiots in RVs have no fucking clue what they're doing 8 times out of 10. It's just not right.
I'm not insensitive to any possible tragedy that may have occured in the accident. The vehicle was completely upside-down after all and that can't be good for the family vacation. But my point is that such things would never (or, much more rarely) occur if driving a getup like that required having a CDL.
Small people should not drive big vehicles.