Dawn over Amotherby. The view is spoilt by the steel container in the fore ground but it was still a beautiful sunrise. I was loaded by this time but my first load was for Malton store and it doesn't open until eight. No I didn't spend the time in between taking pictures, I spent the spare time baling cardboard, great fun for an hour or so. But it fills in spare time and it has to be done by someone.
I took this while waiting at the traffic lights on the way into Malton, it would have been better if there had been a que and I was a hundred metres back. My second load was for Carlton store and three farm drops. It wasn't a big load but each drop takes time no matter what I'm delivering. The last drop was at Mawson Green near Sykehouse. Just as I pulled out two tractors pulling loads of straw pulled out in front of me. I ended up following them all the way to the roundabout before the M62. The first tractor had just pulled onto the roundabout when the trailer became unattached from the tractor dropping the draw bar onto the road. Luckily the driver was only travelling slowly and the trailer ground to a halt. It didn't take long to hitch it up again but the driver looked very embarrassed and deservedly so. I had one collection from Howden Dyke which would have been easy enough but someone hadn't told them I was coming, great. Once the gentleman on the weigh bridge had climbed off the ceiling things improved. After an appropriate wait I was finally able to get loaded after that everything was easy and I went back to base. See you tomorrow.
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