CARGO CLEANUP\Resting rig rolls off I-5 in Castaic.Byline: Daily News A groggy grog·gy adj. grog·gi·er, grog·gi·est Unsteady and dazed; shaky. [From grog.] grog driver and a truckload truck·load n. The quantity that a truck can hold. truckload n → camión m lleno of oranges combined Friday to make a mess of traffic that took some seven hours to clean up. A big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. loaded with 40,000 pounds of the fruit blocked one of the two lanes of The Old Road nearly all day after rolling down rolling down The liquidation of an option position by an investor at the same time that he or she takes an essentially identical position with a lower strike price. an embankment from the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , officials said. The driver, Carlos Gandara, was traveling south on the freeway about 7 a.m. when, feeling groggy, he decided to pull over and rest, said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Wendy Moore. "He safely pulled off the road onto the shoulder and stopped - but took his foot off the brake and didn't realize it," she said. "He rolled off the freeway and down the embankment." While the 27-year-old truck driver from Delano escaped injury, his rig ended up on its side and could not be righted until all the produce was removed, Moore said. That process took some seven hours, and all the while two Highway Patrol officers stood by directing traffic on the remaining open lane, she said. Gandara was not expected to be cited. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1--ran in AV and SAC--color in SAC) Forty-thousand pounds of oranges are removed from the eighteen-wheeler after it came to rest on one of The Old Road's two lanes. (2--ran in AV and SAC--color in SAC) Carlos Gandara, right, talks to another trucker after the accident just off the freeway. He was not hurt. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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