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!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Take Cover

Lori's luck with weather has not been the best the past few weeks. While at training this afternoon, all the drivers got the call to pack a bag and head over to the main facility. They needed to drive all the tractors and trailers north so they wouldn't get damaged by the hail storms that were headed their way.

There were more than enough drivers so Lori was sent back to her hotel room. Mother Nature was putting on quite a show with non-stop lightning and marble-sized hail. All the TV channels had non-stop weather information scrolling across the bottom of the screen with regular warning updates being broadcast.

As of 11:00 p.m., things seemed to have settled down so Lori was going to get some sleep to be ready for her final classes and test tomorrow.

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