TIME ON OUR HANDS IN MICHIGAN

Having an oversize load, and traveling through many States, you are always looking over your permits and confirming when and on what roads you can travel. Leaving the company yard loaded down with copies of all our permits we headed East. Some States let you travel at night, most have restrictions to drive only between sunrise and sunset, and then you have the States that restrict your traveling during the weekends. We were lucky enough to make it into Michigan Friday evening before sunset and their restriction of oversize loads traveling on their interstates anytime Saturday and Sunday.

As you can imagine, this left us with some time on our hands. We stayed at a truck stop just outside of Ann Arbor, MI but unfortunately there wasn't much around the area other than another truck stop across the street. We parked the rig where we had the best spot to people watch. After all, with that much time, we had to do something to entertain ourselves, and let's face it, sometimes truck drivers can make for some fun watching.

Having our fill of watching some good and not so good backing up, and the latest in trucking fashions (which will be a blog entry for another time), we did some more organizing of the truck and laundry. We of course had more than our fill of TV watching and computer time, so when I saw the post card I posted above, I tried to get my own Michigan sunset from where we were parked and this was the best I could do.
We are anxious to get our first delivery under our belts Monday morning since our return to work. As always we will be looking forward to hearing where our next assignment will take us. Until then, we sit in our truck, watching the sun set on another beautiful day in Michigan.