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!

Friday, May 9, 2008

Apple Run - Day Two

Lori's still on her way back to the "mother ship" (Prime's headquarters in Springfield) with her trailer full of Washington apples. She has an appointment at the Freightline service shop at noon on Saturday so she's having to move along at a pretty good clip in order to make it on time.

She was afraid she might arrive with a load of applesauce after the hail storm she drove through near Ogallaga, Nebraska this afternoon. Besides getting pelted with golf ball-sized hail, the large amount of rain meant Lori had to slow the truck down to about 45 mph. Fortunately, she was able to get out in front of the storm and into better weather.

She's enjoying a dinner of roasted chicken and asparagus from her "lunchbox stove" before heading to her next rest stop near Rock Port, MO.

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