In almost everything, there is some good and some bad. I try to find the “good” in what otherwise seems like a bad or at least, a not-so-good situation. Last Saturday, while driving around to take photos for my new photo blog (OlentangyLiving.com), it occurred to me that I was no longer sharing the side roads with the behemoth dump trucks.
If you have lived in southern Delaware County the past nine years, you know how prevalent these fully loaded – all axles down – trucks were. Speeding down the narrow back roads, to maximize the number of deliveries they could make per day to the local builders’ developments, they put other vehicles in peril that were near or in front of them.
However, with builders pruning their inventories in 2009, they’ve reduced the need for the loads of gravel or yards of concrete mix. So the number of encounters with these monster trucks has greatly lessened.
I’m torn between feeling sorry for the truckers, who likely have substantially reduced incomes, and yet relieved that I no longer have to worry about them crossing the center line, or being unable to stop quick enough for the traffic ahead.
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