Night Time is the Right Time

I left Ontario, Oregon on Tuesday evening after getting loaded and started my trip to Atlanta, Georga.  Because of how late I got loaded, I ended up driving through the night for the next 3 nights to arrive in Atlanta on Friday.  I have always enjoyed running at night because of all of the obvious reasons but one thing that really bothers me about running at night is all of the animal activity and the possibility of hitting something big like a deer or elk or something else.  One thing I do like about this truck I have is the fact that the headlights are very bright and light up the road in front of me quite well.  I don't have LED headlights and wouldn't put them on my truck because they are way too bright and when another vehicle comes up behind me with those type of lights, it is blinding.  With having good lights on my truck it gives me a little more confidence while running on the back roads that I sometimes find myself having to run.  When I had my T2000, the headlights on that truck were so poor that it was sometimes scarey driving at night because you just could not see very well at all.
Another advantage to driving at night is that you can jam out to the tunes on the radio and nobody can see you making a fool of yourself inside the truck.  I get the opportunity to practice my air guitar and air drums and don't have to worry about others seeing me doing it.
Traffic is obviously lighter and I can get better fuel mileage both on the interstate and on the back roads because of the lighter traffic.  The cooler temperatures also help with improving my fuel mileage too.  I get caught by alot less red lights running at night and it is alot easier to time the lights when rolling through a town when there is very little traffic from the side streets to trip the lights.  That is something that some of these towns really need to work on.  There are times when running through a town late at night and a light will change for no reason and will stay red for a long period of time.  The only thing something like that accomplishes is to waste fuel by causing people to stop and then restart.  You would think that with the emphasis that is being put on greenhouse gases and emissions that they would be looking for as many ways as possible to eliminate fuel waste and something like that would be extremely easy to fix and could possibly save thousands of gallons of fuel.  Just a thought!
I am currently in Atlanta and will be unloading on Sunday.  I don't know where I am going to next but am supposed to be going home next weekend after being out for close to 2 months.  I am really looking forward to going home and spending time with my wife.  I also get to spend time with my daughter that is in college because she was able to change her schedule to be able to come home at that time too.

Happy Trails

Mike