ROUTE: Windsor, CT to Brownstown, MI: 699 miles
Tuesday April 7th, I started my day at 10:15am, performed the pre-trip, drove five hours and arrived at the consignee at 4:00pm to the deliver the previous load. The shipper on this assignment was the same as the consignee of the previous so there were no deadhead miles. I left the shipper at 6:00pm to the I-84 Diner in Fishkill, NY for dinner. Afterwards, I drove 20 minutes to fuel and then another two-and-half hours to take my break for the night at Sheetz truck stop in Buckhorn, PA. I shut down at 12:30am. I could have shut it down for the night at the diner but if I wanted to make delivery the next day then I had to advance the load enough to have sufficient time on the 11 hour drive clock. This is how truckers plan their days according to DOT Regulations.
Wednesday April 8th, I started my day at 12:30pm and drove eight hours to make the delivery with a thirty minute break to comply with DOT Regulations. The load had a delivery appointment for Monday the 13th so I just dropped it off at our terminal and a Local Driver would take it then.
BOOK REVIEW: Murder in the Grave by Irina Shapiro (2021), MURDER MYSTERY – RATING (****)
The fifth book in the Redmond/Haze series and just as good as the first four. It can be read as a stand alone book as the author briefly mentions parts of the preceding stories. It’s more enjoyable to read in sequence to witness the evolution of the main characters.
The body of Sebastian Slate, the curate of a parish in a small rural town is found brutally murdered in a grave ready for its true occupant. For all accounts he was a well liked young man with a strong vocation and an ascending path in the clergy. There were no strangers accounted for when the murder occurred so it had to be a local person. Who would have ill will toward a respectable clergyman that had only arrived to this secluded town a couple of weeks prior? Lord Redmond and Inspector Haze have to peel down the man’s past to understand the motif, establish a suspect and find the killer. Was the curate as noble as he appeared or did he have dark secrets of his own?
An entertaining methodical investigation eventually leads to the killer. The author manages to insert into the conversations of mid-nineteenth century the topics of Pro-Choice versus Pro-Life and even issues related to the Me Too Movement.
