About This Site

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!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Heading Home

Lori and Tamara are on their way to Vegas to make the first drop of this load and then into Southern California. They decided to take the southerly route (I-40) from Wisconsin to avoid having to negotiate the Rockies while it's snowing. That took them through Springfield, MO which gave them a chance to stop by Prime's headquarters where they fueled up, took showers, and had a nice hot lunch while the trailer they are pulling went through its annual inspection and had some brake work done.

They should get into Vegas early Sunday afternoon, then it's on to I-15 with the hordes heading back into LA after a weekend in "Lost Wages." Tamara is going to swing by Norco so Mike can pick up Lori at the closest off-ramp and take her home. In the meantime, Tamara will finish the run with a few more drops around So Cal before taking the truck in for some work.

This will probably be the last post until Lori gets back on the road after a few days of well-deserved downtime.

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