Quickie to the Heartland

Ater all of the 2,500+ miles runs they've had lately, a 900-mile trip (Winston-Salem, NC to West Branch, Iowa) almost seems like a vacation to Lori and Tamara. On top of that, it's a nice light load of cardboard displays going to a Proctor & Gamble facility.

Which raises another point; while I don't want to complain about having freight to haul, it seems a little silly to pay to haul a trailer full of cardboard displays 900 miles to another place where the displays and product can be put onto another truck headed somewhere else. I guess having nice in-store displays for products makes enough of a difference in sales volume to make it worthwhile. (Of course, we as consumers are the ones that ultimately pay for all of this.)

Lori's a little worn out today after driving all night, sitting in line waiting to get into the Wal-mart distribution center, going grocery shopping at Wal-mart, and then helping get the next load squared away before getting a chance to sleep.