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Salford Haul

 Mark and I hauled a Salford 19' wide to Sioux City. The average semi is 8' wide and the average road from center line to white line is 12'. He asked if I would like to ride along and I agreed. He has been hauling Salford's on occasion and it is always a stressful time. We had to spend the night to meet the buyer at 8 Am the next morning.  Mark always has to be watching for oncoming traffic and narrow roads because he hangs over so far. At one point driving through a small town, they had the school crossing stop sign in the middle of the road and I had to jump out and pull it out of the way so Mark could fit. We took a route that went along some very narrow county roads. The problem was they were also hilly with little room to over. Cars would come up and over a hill and there wasn't a lot of time for either to get moved over. Luckily we didn't meet too many people out on the road. The drive would normally take around 3 hours and it took a good 6. We would travel on average 45mph. It was along haul and we only stopped once for the restroom. We planned to stop for lunch, but you can only stop if you have a good place to pull over and park, that never happened. We rolled into Sioux City around 2:30. We could either have a very late lunch or wait and have a very early supper. We decided to check into our hotel and have a very nice early supper. We stayed at a hotel that had Kahill's Chophouse, a very amazing and delicious steakhouse with a lovely view right along the river. We really enjoyed a wonderful meal and enjoyed it being extra hungry. We walked along the boardwalk and watched the sunset over the big Sioux City bridge. 










While we were gone, Mark had his fertilizer tanks installed. Last summer he had a concrete area prepared for them. It was a terrible windy day and the trucks, crew and crane had a hard time with them. It was rather dangerous and they had to stop and wait for the wind to calm down. 





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