Trucks and Trombones

What do trucks and trombones have in common? Well, you will see. While I'm pedalling my butt of all over here and there, my husband chris is holding the fort (and paying the bills) at home and work.

So, just last week he delivered his longest load ever, some 104 ft long joists for an extension of a automaking plant in Windsor. He didn't have an escort just fellow driver Scott up ahead with the same joists leading the way. Apparently it took Scott 5 tries to get into the jobsite and it took chris 10 tries. It's crazy anyway. The thing is, these things are so long you could never get them on a regular tractor trailer. So, they have special trailer called a 'trombone', which can be extended to accomodate these longer loads. No music involved here. Although, when you think of a trucker you think country music, losing your wife, house, truck and dog right? well, at least i do. Anyway, I cracked up when chris told me last week that sometimes it's so loud in the truck that he listens's to country music because it's the only kind he can hear above the noise of the truck. ha ha. that's what happens when you're desperate ( I apologize to those who genuinely like country music, including my mom).

below is the proud trucker. with him in the picture you can get an idea of the scale of these things, they're huge.

above is a closer up picture. That centre beam in the trailer's underbelly is the trombone part but at the front end of the trailer (this is the back end above, front end pictured below).

It's crazy stuff but I'm grateful to chris for working so hard so I can do this biking thing (well, for another week and a half anyway). Next up for me is world championships in Salzburg, Austria. I hope I remember to bring the camera. then it's home to start planning a PARTY!!!