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!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

A Day Off...sort of

Lori and Tamara made it to Fed Ex at the Newark Airport with a couple of hours to spare. They dropped their trailer at a dock and picked up an empty trailer from the others on the lot.

Unfortunately, the next load available (at least of those that would get the truck closer to Springfield) can't be picked up until tomorrow morning so Tamara decided they would just spend the day in the Fed Ex lot - which didn't go over very well with Lori since there was an evening church service at a relatively close truck stop that she would have liked to attend. But, it's Tamara's truck so she gets to call the shots.

The plan is to pick up the load tomorrow headed for Memphis, and then get another load that takes them by Prime's facility in Springfield so Lori can get off the truck and come home. Keep your fingers crossed!

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