Not the Best of Days

While today wasn't the worst day Lori's ever had as a trucker, it was far from the best.

It started when her drive wheels got stuck at her pickup location. The concrete parking pad only extended about 10 feet out from the loading dock; the rest of the lot was gravel. For whatever reason, the gravel in front of the dock they sent Lori too couldn't handle the weight and her drive wheels starting digging a hole as she backed in. She tried rocking the tractor back and forth to get out of the hole, but it was no go. So she climbed out of the truck and started moving gravel from behind the wheels to the front of the wheels. She eventually got out of the hole and moved to another loading dock.

After she was loaded (with pre-sliced veggies) and on the road, she got a message from headquarters that the refrigerator on her trailer wasn't working. She pulled over at the next rest stop and proceeded to check the refrigerator unit. It was running and the temperature gauge showed the correct temperature inside the trailer; 37 degrees. So it was back on the road and off to Boise, about six hours away. She'll spend the night at a local truck stop before dropping off her load at Sysco Foods in Boise Monday morning.