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!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Waiting for the next load

Lori made it into Utah last night, spent the night at a truck stop near her delivery location, and finished up the trip by dropping off the load at 4:00 a.m. this morning. After that, it was off to Wal-mart and then down to the Salt Lake City terminal to take a shower and do the laundry.

It seems there are lots of loads looking for a driver but all of them are headed too far east (since Lori is scheduled to be home next weekend for Liz's shower). Since there's no other loads available as of Saturday evening, Lori told her dispatcher that she's going to church tomorrow morning and that she'll be ready for an assignment after that.

The Salt Lake City terminal is close to a church in American Fork that's being pastored by a former assistant pastor at our church in East Anaheim, Joe McCormick. Pastor Joe and his family moved to the Provo area five years ago to start the church and it has grown considerably. Mike went to the church about four years ago as part of a worship music group headed by Pastor Joe's brother, Ed, who leads the group that Mike plays with every Wednesday night.

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