It's been two years...
Had to clean a bit of dust off of it and fill the tires, but I picked a
damn hot day to go for a ride. Since it has been two years and since my
back has been doing poorly, I figured I would take it easy. Went on a
four mile ride, this is the bike taking a break at the halfway point:)
The route takes me back up behind our industrial park and the cemetery
and ends at the end of the road two miles from the house. It will be a
nice route to work on getting reacquainted with the bike because there
is hardly no traffic and there are some small hills. It's a perfect
route for me. Had to stop at the halfway point and drink most of my
water. Not very adept at reaching down for the water bottle while in
motion:)
Truck flipped over
Down the street from work, at the intersection of HWY 17s and 70w, a
tractor-trailer flopped over. Dude was taking the corner too fast. On
the news he claimed the load shifted. As a former OTR driver, who has
hauled many loads of shredded paper and cardboard, as he was hauling,
that stuff don't shift. They may be able to jump up if you go off a
ramp. Those bales are made to fit wall to wall in a typical trailer,
with only about a foot of space left over, in case a refrigerated
trailer was hauling bales, as inside dimensions of a refer are narrower
because of insulation. Here is another tidbit, they stager the rows
from front to back, one row touches one wall, another row touches the
other. When mashed in there front to back, the shredded stuff kind of
locks it all in.
Good thing this dude didn't flop on top of any cars or drill one going
the other way as he slid across the highway. I can report that the
driver and the dog did walk away. We got there pretty quick after it
happened and some guys working on a construction project brought out a
ladder and helped them out of the tractor.
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