I just put in a twenty hour day at work due to the blizzard of '04 [View All]

We got 13 inches of snow yesterday and today here in my little corner of Ohio, which is bad news if you're a truck driver. I had to do a Dayton to Cleveland and back turn; about a 400 hundred mile round trip. I started out at 3:30pm yesterday and got home at 11:30am today. It took me 16 hours to do the trip and then when I finally got back to the yard I was greeted with a truck that got stuck pulling in the gate. I had to wait another 4 hours for the tow truck to arrive and pull out the truck so I could get in.

The roads were snow covered the whole way and I was doing good to be going 35 mph. The plows were doing their best, but they just couldn't keep up. There were jack-knifed semis and cars in ditches all over the place. I've driven all over the country and this was one of my worse days as a trucker. I've seen this kind of snow out west, but it is rare for Ohio. I guess I've got something to tell my grandkids about if I ever manage to get married and have some children.