{"id":4735,"date":"2014-02-27T18:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2014-02-27T20:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T00:06:36","slug":"trucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4735","title":{"rendered":"Trucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had corn to deliver in January.  And it snowed, and it snowed, and then it snowed some more.<\/p>\n<p>Finally here in the last week of February the weather moderated enough that we were able to start hauling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4737\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_081738_654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_081738_654-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Loading\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_081738_654-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_081738_654-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_081738_654.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Loading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those flecks aren&#8217;t dirt on lens, it&#8217;s snow blasting by on the 25 mph winds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4739\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124641_887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124641_887-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Working Outside\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124641_887-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124641_887-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124641_887.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working Outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It must be great to work outside,&#8221; I hear sometimes.  Lana is enjoying being out in the fresh air.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4736\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124624_263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124624_263-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Monitoring Conditions\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124624_263-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124624_263-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124624_263.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monitoring Conditions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Lana was watching the auger, I was helpfully monitoring conditions, keeping an eye on the lane to make sure it was passable and making sure it wasn&#8217;t getting too warm in the cab of the truck.  Somebody had to do it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4738\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124655_489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124655_489-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Fargo?\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124655_489-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124655_489-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_124655_489.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fargo?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking to the north in the direction we&#8217;d soon be heading with the corn it looked like a scene from the movie &#8216;Fargo.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But the despite the bad weather we got six loads hauled today and filled our contract, just ahead of the -12 degrees predicted for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>After a long day in the cold, this is a reward.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4745\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_173710_587.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_173710_587-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Hearth and Home\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_173710_587-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_173710_587-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140227_173710_587.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hearth and Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It sure feels good to soak the cold away by the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trucking in the cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}