California and home we go.

Well we have been trying to go home for the last week or so.  It seems that there is a lot of freight going and not enough trucks to take it.  I just read in a trucking newspaper that the industry is hurting for drivers.  That there is a lot that are leaving the industry due to the limits the government is trying to place on the truckers.  Has anyone stopped to think that if trucking stopped for, even two days, that the nation would come to a halt.  Look what happens when the airlines are delayed for any amount of time.  Scary thing to think about.

We were in Northern Utah and I saw a sight that I have only seen in "truck bone yards", a trailer buckled in half.

We heard a crack and a thud while at the loading dock, but we didn't think anything of it.  Just thought that it was the plate to the dock dropping onto our trailer, so that they could start to load the freight.  How wrong we were.  We pulled away from the loading dock and was going around to re-scale the load and this is what I saw.  The poor driver. It must have scared him a good one.  The good thing is that the trailer is the only thing that was harmed.  The tractor and driver were safe and sound.  Equipment can be replaced, but life cannot.

As I was looking at this picture I noticed that at the top of the trailer, some of the damage appeared to be a chair. The rounded back and the solid legs on the bottom.  Tom tells me that I can find something of interest in anything I look at.  Good imagination???
 
     While we were in California, we happened to pass this restaurant with the name of our friend that lives in Southern Utah, Vicky.  I just had to take the picture and send it to her, for she would get a good laugh out of it.  She loves to cook and now there is a restaurant with her name on it.

Then you have the guys that want to be mobile with their food. like this guy.  He is on the go with his little cart, but it appeared to be mostly beverages. 

As we were passing a residential neighborhood, I noticed a man sitting in his wheelchair with his dog watching the traffic go by.  I thought what a nice picture.  Man, with his leg propped up on the wall, just relaxing or maybe doing exercises and his dog watching out.

Notice the sign on the fence...Beware of Dog...I think he might "bark" you to death, before he would bite.

And now on to my construction guys.  I just have fun taking pictures of these guys at work.  Sometimes you scratch your head wondering what they are doing.  This guy was jumping up to grab the beam.  As he was doing it I thought that he must have great muscles, if he has to do this umpteen times a day.

They are building a bridge that will carry a train over the roadway.  Right now it goes across the road and the traffic backs up clear to the off ramp from the interstate.  It doesn't take many trucks in a line to have a major traffic problem.  It is a "good thing", as my friend Ann would say.
  We are going home now for a few days.  Looking forward to just relaxing and putting my feet up on something other than the dash board.  So until next time I will see you On the Other Side.