Thanksgiving week of 1987. Three in the afternoon, I'm sitting in traffic on I-80 Chicago. Moving slower than a turtle. Just starting to snow. I head down I-57 toward Champaign to drop a LTL before heading to St. Louis. The bad news on the radio is that it's gonna get worse as I travel South. By the time I hit Kankakee, there's 3 inches of snow on the road. I got 22 ton on the trailer and can still move right along but haven't seen an Illinois pumpkin plow anywhere. Rantoul there is 6 inches of snow and still no plow. I'm making the only tracks on 57 and finally a plow comes down a ramp and pulls in behind me. I hit the four ways and slow way down and pull over so the plow can get by. Nope, he doesn't understand and just slows down behind me. Next exit I turn off and the plow continues on down the road. In Champaign I drop all but 4 ton at the consignee and hit the road. On I-72 between Champaign and Decatur it starts raining. Start seeing cars in the ditch. Slow the Mack down and loaf along at 1,200 rpm slipping now and then. More cars in the ditch. From Decatur to Springfield I count 56 cars and trucks in the ditch. I'm creeping along down to 15mph. Finally make it to Springfield where there's more snow, about 10 inchs over ice. Get on I-55 at Springfield where the pumpkin plows have heavily salted the roads and the rest of the trip to St. Louis is much better. I hate having a light load on the trailer in bad weather.
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