I got another little taste of the reality of the road, yesterday, when what outght to have been around 7-8 hours of driving between Rock Hill, S.C., and Nashville, Tenn., with a two-hour stop midstream, turned into a 13-hour saga. Just another day in your life, I know.
Everything started out fine, a brief visit with Georgia motor carrier enforcement officers at the southbound and northbound scales near the South Carolina border came and went on schedule.
More on all of that later. I hit the road toward Atlanta and ultimately Nashville by noon Eastern time. Forty-five minutes on, this was the scene:
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That wasn’t the last delay I’d see. With some protracted slowdowns around Atlanta and in Chattanooga, I (joy) arrived in Nashville right at the local five-o’clock hour, just getting ahead of a multi-vehicle accident on I-24W around Harding Pike only to hit traffic into the downtown area at a standstill itself.
By the time I parked it, I was getting preciously close to what would have been the close of my 14-hour window in a different life. Drive time I might have maxed out entirely.
Sound familiar? Here’s hoping your Wednesday run was smooth.
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