Left the truck stop at sunrise this morning and drove to Clifton, NJ to the delivery site. It is in the parking lot of a NJ Transit Park n' Ride at the corner of the Garden State Parkway and Route 3. We are about 20 miles from the Lincoln Tunnel. Nothing is easy in this part of the country. When I arrived the crane and everyone was there. Half the parking lot was taped off for us. Apparently this ruffled a lot of feathers. Someone called New Jersey Transit, they came out and they called the State Police. The cop wanted the permits for all of this. They were not on site. After they made a zillion phone calls someone brought the permits. All was legal BUT they did not call 24 hours ahead so no work could be done. Well, more people came out and more phone calls were made and FINALLY they got approval to do the work. It went all the way to the number two guy in the State Police. GOOD GRIEF!!!! In the time it took to do all this stupidity we could have been done and outa' there!!! Just one more reason why I hate this part of the country!!!!
Here is the parking lot. Directly behind the crane is The Garden State Parkway. The road next to me is Route 3.
Here is the way in and out.
They finally unloaded me. They had to "fly" it over a power line to set it on its pad.
Left there and drove back to the TA in Columbia, NJ and had another flat tire on the trailer fixed. Then drove down to Carlisle, PA to the "home office". Thought I'd never get here!! TONS of bumper to bumper traffic for a lot of the trip. Then rain during rush hour from about Harrisburg all the way to Carlisle. That made the idiots worse!! So glad to be here. Very frustrating day!! Going to have the trailer serviced while I'm here and have some work done on the trucks too.
