Finished the delivery at 09:00. Next load is 300+ miles away in Pennington, AL. All of it empty, and most of it on 2-lane roads.
With only 50 miles or so to go, we ran into a HELL of a storm. Winds at about 50Kts, empty trailer, rain so hard I couldn't see 100 meters in front of me. No hail, though. Tree branches were tolerable substitute - flying around and bouncing off the truck.
Finding the drop yard for the trailer swap was .. difficult, but find it we did. Took about half an hour all told, to swap the trailers and get the hell out of dodge. Rude, rude people.
Ruder (is that a word) deer flies. Damn things are the size of mice, and they kept invading the cab of the truck. It's not something I'm proud to admit, but in retrospect, the sight of two big, burly, tough truck driver-types frantically waiving dirty underwear and log books in the cab of a truck would probably have left any witnesses helpless on the ground.
No sooner did we get one monster bug out of the cab than another flew in and we had to repeat the process all over again. For the record, the windows on a Pete 378 do NOT close quickly enough.
After we ... ahem... bugged out, I had about an hour of drive time left available. Just enough to get back to the interstate where Trainer could take over and get us to Memphis (more accurately, west Memphis). I got a bit of a nap on the way, but still, I have about 5 hours to wait before I can drive again.
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