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, April 17, 2008

Chocolate of a Different Kind

Last week, Lori delivered a truck full of Milky Way bars. She now has another load of chocolate, only this time it's in a different form; cocoa powder - 80 barrels of it.

The cocoa is coming from the Archer Daniels Midland plant on the coast of North Carolina, a place she visited before when she was teaming with Tamara. The load is headed for Milwaukee to a location on Harley Davidson Blvd. [INTERESTING HISTORICAL SIDE NOTE: Harley Davidson was started in Milwaukee in the early 1900s by two Davidson brothers and Mr. Harley. It is still the site of the company's world headquarters.] The trip length is almost 1100 miles, two full days on the road.

After Lori makes the delivery Friday morning, she's going to need to do her 34-hour reset. Since she's going to be in the Milwaukee/Chicago area she's thinking she might go to a baseball game. Mike is checking the schedules on the Internet to see who's going to be in town Friday night.

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