Just a quick update, had a few days off (as usual) then it was another dash south, this time it was another mentoring trip with a new driver who has just come aross from the Siemens Group, i think he was based at Saskatoon. Anyway he is part of the Big Red Team now. Padraic hails from Eire (Southern Ireland) and we caused a bit of a stir coming thru the border. The border guard took one look at our passports (one English and one Irish) and burst out laughing. After a few quips about the insanity of putting an Englishman in a truck with an Irishman he waived us thru and kept our passports..............................
Yep there was a problem with the load manifest and we were called inside, i was getting a bit nervous because it was getting a bit close to the meat inspection closing times. Anyway, in we went, made a quick dash up to the broker, got the problem rectified and stood in line to get booked thru.
10 mins later we were scooting round to the Inspection depot and 20 mins after that we were on our merry way. Tonight we managed to get thru Minneapolis and now we are parked up for the night.
It looks like a lot of North America is battened down for a bit of severe weather, we drove through some horrendous blizzards today although the last few hours it eased off a little. After Chicago we are heading up into Toronto, there has been freezing rain storms in New England so hopefully we can get in and out before it comes across. I think this will be my last run now before Xmas, i booked a week off, this trip should get us back just in time.
I treated myself to a trapper hat on my last run, mostly for fuelling up in minus 20 conditions, hey i might look a tit but at least im a warm tit 8-)
You won't need to light the wood burner if you wear that hat indoors lol.
ReplyDeleteYou dont need the hat Lyndon.
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