Hudson was rescued by B.O.N.E.S. from a bad situation in Limington, ME. After the gentleman called 911 (and subsequently passed away), the local ACO found 20 dogs living in squalid conditions.
B.O.N.E.S. took most of them and found them new homes. Overall, Hudson was in very good shape but when he had his physical, they found a serious mast cell tumor in his nose. As much as possible was removed.
B.O.N.E.S. wanted to find a wonderful home for Hudson and we did. John is a long-haul trucker that had lost his beagle companion of 13 years. He wanted a new companion. Luckily John found Hudson (or Hudson found John). It was a wonderful match. Hudson reported in regularly, and we share his "Chronicles" on this page.
Good morning, We've been home for about a week and a half and are getting ready to head out tomorrow on a trip to Arizona
Our last trip took us out to Washington state. John loaded a load of fiberglass panels in Augusta going to a paper mill in Wallula, Washington. It was a nice, light load, which is always nice. Once we delivered the load, we headed to Baker City, OR to load some farsnowm equipment going back to Pennsylvania. It was an oversize load, so John ordered the permits and we went to a small truck stop at the OR/WA border for the evening. John had to wait for the final contract which would be ready the next morning.
We got our marching orders the following morning and headed out to get loaded. We hadn't gone more than 20 miles when John encountered the dreaded signs-all trucks must chain up! That's right, a surprise snowstorm on Cabbage Pass. John had to pull over and, along with all the other truckers, put chains on the truck and trailer tires. It took him about an hour and a half. He looked cold and miserable out there in the snow! He didn't even leave the truck running with the heat on for me! I was going to point this out to him, but figured I should just keep my mouth shut. Well, we got up, and over the pass and when it came time to take the chains off, it was a lot quicker.
We loaded our load and had a good trip across the country. On the way, John had a tractor to pick up in Lincoln, NE going to the same Place. He was told it would fit along side the Hay stacker. Well, it didn't! After some quick thinking,ramps the customer found a loading dock where we could load the tractor. It was on the campus of the university of Nebraska! Here we are driving on campus with an over-sized load on the narrow streets! We got to the loading dock, and after some tricky maneuvering, John got the cab jacked around enough so he could load the tractor on the front of the trailer using his ramps. Sometimes, it takes some creative thinking to make things work.
We were able to see John's brother Dave and his wife Perry in Ohio. We were in Dayton for the weekend and they were coming through Dayton on their way home from vacation, so we had a nice dinner and visit.
We delivered in PA the following Monday, and then loaded for Massachusetts. From there, we had a Bulldozer at the port of Providence to load for Maine, NY. Where we loaded the dozer was where the cars come in from Japan. John had a tough time finding somebody who knew where the machine was. They aren't used to other kinds of freight coming in to this port. After about a half an hour, he finally found the right person, and we got the machine loaded.
The ship that carries the cars was HUGE! It doesn't look like it would be able to float at all. But what do I know, I'm just a beagle and don't have any concept of displacement.
After we delivered the dozer, John had a couple items to pick up in Iowa, so off we went. We loaded a couple of towers in PA going Michigan. from there we loaded some partials going to Minnesota. On the way, John picked up a truck hood for a friend in MA. We met in a rest area and they backed the pick up next to our truck and loaded the hood and some other parts onto the trailer. We got some strange looks from people driving by.
From there, we delivered our loads in Minnesota, and started loading for home.On our way home John found out that we were heading into another snow storm that was going to hit western Pennsylvania. He was planning to stop for the night right where the brunt of the storm was going to hit. As it worked out, the next day, when we woke up, it was only rain. We made our deliveries in Massachusetts that afternoon and finished out the deliveries in Maine the next day.
That's all the news for now.
Hudson, the semi-beagle
