{"id":92288,"date":"2019-10-08T04:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/thank-you-from-absmeier-trucking\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T04:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:26:45","slug":"thank-you-from-absmeier-trucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/thank-you-from-absmeier-trucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you from Absmeier Trucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=59a6ef04-115f-4e23-8c55-35c948ada802&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1474\" alt=\"A cattle car overturned Sept. 24 on the Dolores-Norwood Road north of Dolores. At least 10 cattle were killed. About 70 cattle were being transported from high pastures to a feedlot in Sterling.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A cattle car overturned Sept. 24 on the Dolores-Norwood Road north of Dolores. At least 10 cattle were killed. About 70 cattle were being transported from high pastures to a feedlot in Sterling.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Patrick Armijo\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In meeting a few cars, we moved over, my front truck\/trailer caved off the shoulder taking the trailer and truck over. I would have rather been driving than have been in the second truck watching it go over in slow motion.<\/p>\n<p>It was an awful afternoon, but it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not hurt and more cattle would have been hurt or died had it not been for the help of everyone who was involved: Lloyd Shumway, Tiffany, Carson, Hopkins, Guy, Joe Stevenson, Parks and  Wildlife officer, tools from hunters, passersby, vehicle, chains, hacksaws (to cut the trailer open and release the cattle), traffic control, CSP, Forest Service, fire department and the sheriff\u2019s agency.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it is people like all of you who helped that saved many of the cattle. If I have forgotten someone, I apologize, but thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Last, I want to thank Bo Dean\u2019s Towing. Paul and his crew did an amazing job getting the truck and trailer off the mountain into Cortez. Thanks, Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Absmeier,<\/p>\n<p>Absmeier Trucking, Alamosa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cattle car overturned Sept. 24 on the Dolores-Norwood Road north of Dolores. At least 10 cattle were killed. About 70 cattle were being transported from high pastures to a feedlot in Sterling.Patrick Armijo\/The Journal In meeting a few cars, we moved over, my front truck\/trailer caved off the shoulder taking the trailer and truck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5903,6037,5904],"tags":[890],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-thank-you-community","category-thank-you-letters","tag-thank-you"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92288"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}