Wednesday, November 16, 2011

From The Island To The Desert

While we were waiting to back into the dock, we got a little snowed on. Ed backed in and started to prepare the trailer for loading...

Here he is, hard at work, diligently sweeping the snow off the trailer. Row by row, he swept. Like a chimney sweep. Except he was a snow sweep. Wet snow, falling off the side of the trailer in perfect little clumps. I'm going to have to get him to try this sweeping technique in the truck sometime. When he was done sweeping and prepping, he began the loading process. Racks that were going to a new BJ's Warehouse store in Virginia. Here he is, thirteen feet off the ground, climbing around on slippery steel like. Sometimes I get nervous, but he's been doing this for so long and is so careful, that I really don't have anything to worry about. But seriously, if he falls and gets hurt, who's going to back into docks??



The trip went off without a hitch and we got unloaded super-quick before turning right around and heading to Long Island to pick up a load going out to Las Vegas. Everything that day was timed down to the minute. Traffic on the bridge would have doomed us. I was not sure we were going to make it, but Ed was cheerleading the whole way and we totally made it! Right under the wire!

Cross-country cruisin' time!




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1 YEAR AGO:
The Town I Was Dying To See
2 YEARS AGO:
Gleaming Curve
3 YEARS AGO:
Color Me Casual
4 YEARS AGO:
Eddie Goes Running Friday
5 YEARS AGO:
Forever Yours
6 YEARS AGO:
Home Away From Home

2 comments:

Gil said...

Glad to hear that you timed the bridge traffic to the Island just right! You don't need any of those 1/8th mile an hour on the GWB again, do you?

Anonymous said...

like those working pics of trucking. So if he cleans the inside of the truck are you going to do the sweeping outside of the truck? LOL :)