Just trucking along

Well I managed to get out of Pa in one piece.Like I had said,Pa is a little too far east for me. I used to run the east coast alot and seen alot of the Pa countryside.The Pa dot checked my logs this morning. Lucky for me I was up to date. Most of the time I'm way behind. At least I wasn't pulled around for an inspection.I know I would have passed with no problem. It's just such a hassle and burns up time on the logbook.Granted we make $35 for a clean inspection.I just didn't feel up to the hassle.I just wanted to get in and out of the state as quick as possible.I'm sitting in Slohio waiting to pickup a load in Warren,Oh.It picks up early tomorrow morning and then deliver tomorrow night near Milwaukee,Wi.With any luck there will be a scrap load already loaded to Green Bay that I can drop and grab a preloaded trailer right out of the same place. I'm hoping to get about 3500 miles this week so that I can take a 4 day weekend for Thanksgiving. I want to go up to the deer hunting camp for a little relaxing. Haven't been up there for a real long time for deer hunting season.I won't be going out hunting at all but will volunteer to stand guard over the booze!! That's a rough job. Need to keep sampling everything to make sure it's not going bad. I'm not sure if I can handle a full day of that,but I'm willing to try. I know I never had a problem with that job when I was alot younger.The beer and liquor seems to pack alot more of a wallop nowadays. They must make it stronger now compared to when I was a kid. My wife says it comes from me becoming an old geezer. I'm not quite ready to admit to that!! I'm still having too much fun. I just don't drink like I used to.The boss and the authorities frown on that stuff so I very rarely drink any more.We might have a drink or two when we go out to eat with friends or family on a Friday night. Since we generally leave out on Sundays we avoid drinking on Saturdays. I went through too much to get where I am today to have it messed up by a drink. I can never figure out why so many drivers will sit in thier trucks and suck down a few beers and then sleep a few hours and head on down the road.With the rules on drinking being so strict I don't know why drivers want to risk thier jobs for a beer. Have an accident right after leaving a truckstop and they are in major trouble even if the accident wasn't thier fault. I'll be the first to admit I did more than my share of drinking and driving in a car when I was younger.I'm damned lucky I didn't kill anybody or myself. I used to drink until I would black out. I would wake up in the morning at home and the car parked in the driveway. I have even left places and not remember leaving and then the next thing I remember is I'm driving down the road. I had finally gotten my head out of my ass and started to straighten out.Once I started driving truck I have pretty much quit drinking. Like I said once in awhile we will go out and might have one or two drinks and thats it.My brother-in-law found out what drinking and then going to work can do. He went out to watch some buddies bowl and had a few drinks and then went to work at the mill.The boss decided to do a surprise drug and alcohal check. My brother -in-law was one of those picked and was fired on the spot.He couldn't even pass the breath test. He was told to go home after he gave a sample at the doctors office and was offically terminated after the test results came back. Some months later he was arrested for drunk driving right in his own driveway. He left the bar a couple blocks from his house and the cop followed him out of the parking lot and hit the lights as he was pulling into his own driveway.That makes a good impression on the kids who watched thier dad take all the roadside tests right there in the driveway.

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