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This blog is primarily intended to keep our family and friends up-to-date on where we are and where we’re going as we drive around the country as long-haul truckers. But it’s also a chance to share some observations about life on the road and life in general.

The title is a reference to one of the things we find so attractive about driving a truck (which weighs 40 tons – 80,000 pounds – when fully loaded); it allows us to travel all over this great country of ours, see the sights, and get paid while we're doing it!

Thursday, February 28, 2008

GA to PA

Well, no other drivers wanted to finish up Lori and Tamara's run to Valdosta so they headed out to make their last drop Thursday morning with a fresh slate of 70 available driving hours each.

Their next run was already set up, but they had a few hours before their scheduled pickup time so they stopped to eat breakfast while the truck got an oil change. Then it was back up to McDonough, GA (just outside of Atlanta) to pickup a load headed for Mechanicsburg, PA. Their FM has a load available for them in Hanover, PA (headed for California) if they can get unloaded soon enough. We'll see...

Lori has 49,000 miles in as a trainee, leaving just 11,000 more before she is eligible to be a company solo driver. She hasn't made a final decision on if and/or when she'll go solo but she knows she eventually wants to get some experience as "captain" of a truck before she/we lease a truck.
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