Spent night in Cranbury, NJ. Not awful, if you don't mind the smell, and the other drivers actually working on their trucks, banging away at all hours.
Drove to the shipper - about 30 minutes. No trouble finding it as Trainer has been there before. One of those damn "Drop the trailer and go park over there" places. No telling how long this is going to take - took a half hour just to get a door assignment. Yeah, yeah - could have been much worse.
Done loading, we think at about 11:30 - a two hour job.
Yup! on the way to Lancaster, NY (Just outside Beefaloe) with 42,000 pounds of toothpaste. Gonna be a pleasant drive through the Pennsylvania "mountains"
Gonna scale the load, though.. heading down 206 to Bordentown.. about 45mph. No warning at all - BIG ass bump. Gave me seat-belt bruises. I swear, truck and trailer actually separated in mid-air. I'm just lucky that when we came back down, we came down hooked up. "Bump" signs all over the east coast, and NOTHING where it's really needed.
Oh hell! At Cat scale, discovered that right rear outside driver is flat. Fortunately, we're right here at a Petro shop. Company approved repair (yeah, like they really have a choice)
Spent about 2 hours.. can't find anything wrong with the tire/rim/stem. Inflated to 110, no leaks. Put it back on the truck. Sweet! No charge! - ZOOOOM, back on the road.
Ran out of hours at Syracuse. Trianer took us the rest of the way to Lancaster. Stopped in an empty lot for the night.
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