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!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Ready to Roll

Lori has successfully completed all the requirements to be "upgraded" to a solo driver and has been assigned her own truck. It's a used one; a 2007 model, burgundy colored, with 225,000 miles. She spent the morning giving it the once over, taking it for a test drive, and then dropping it back off at the maintenance facility for a few minor tweaks.

After that, she headed over to Wal-Mart to pick up some supplies. On the way, she heard the tornado warning sirens go off and actually saw a funnel cloud on the horizon. She was just pulling into the Wal-Mart parking lot so she ran inside and waited for the storm to pass.

After that, it was back to the hotel to finish packing up the truck and spending one more night in a "real" bed before she gets her load assignment tomorrow.
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