Next Phase

As of early Wednesday morning, Lori is officially "off" Tamara's truck and ready to move to her next phase of training.

They rolled into Prime's headquarters about 3:oo a.m. after leaving Memphis shortly before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday. The weather was miserable, with tornado watches and warnings along their route. They managed to miss the wind but the thunderstorms were so heavy the raindrops kept setting off the truck's "object ahead" indicator. Fortunately, Lori was able to navigate through it all.

As Tamara got ready to leave she gave Lori a going away present; a "lunchbox" stove that runs off the truck's 12-volt plugs. It's just like the one Tamara has. Lori's actually become very good at using it to cook a variety of hot meals, so she can continue to avoid truck stop food.

Lori got a few hours sleep at Prime's headquarters, took a shower, had a nice hot meal, picked up her rental car, and hit the road to be home for Easter. The plan is for her to be back to Springfield next Wednesday for several days of classroom instruction before being assigned to her own company truck to finish up her next 20,000 miles as a trainee.

We probably won't be posting again until next week, so everybody have a blessed Easter. He is risen, alleluia!