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!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Truckers' Strike Gets Mixed Results

News reports about yesterday's "strike" by independent truckers wanting to protest the high cost of diesel fuel show that participation was spotty. (Read article here.) Seems to my all they did was throw away a day's pay for themselves and make some "four wheelers" angry as they snarled traffic in New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago.

They also managed to get themselves a bit of national media coverage but I don't think it's going to have any real impact on the cost of fuel. You can read our previous post commenting on why we think the strike was a bad idea in the first place by clicking here.

P.S. - Happy Birthday to daughters Shannon and Christina, and granddaughter Jenna!

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