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, June 6, 2008

Nap Time

The last two days have been pretty exhausting for Lori as she made her way home for the weekend. Wednesday included a stop in Phoenix to visit with our son and daughter-in-law for a few hours before driving into Ontario to make an early-Thursday delivery.

Dispatch took full advantage of Lori's offer to do whatever local runs might be available for the rest of Thursday. They kept her busy with three different runs, including a "short jaunt" up to Oxnard to pick up ONE pallet of kale and collard greens before heading down to Anaheim to fill up the rest of the trailer with flowers. The Oxnard run was late enough that Mike got to ride with her after he got off work. Lori dropped him off to go home before heading down to Anaheim for an early Friday morning pickup.

After that she took the trailer to Prime's "drop yard" in Ontario for someone else to take onto Utah before heading to grandson Tyler's "graduation" from kindergarten. When that was finished, she was finally able to grab something to eat, hit the shower, and then collapse into bed for some sleep.

Lori is off the road until late Monday or early Tuesday but we'll probably do one post over this weekend with some photos that Lori took of some tornado/wind damage she saw as she was driving across Nebraska last week.

1 comment:

Ben said...

Hey - LOVE your blog! It has been a tremendous source of encouragement and news as I make my transition to trucking. I do have a couple of questions, though - if you don't mind!!

I just applied with Wil-Trans (apparently they are affiliated with Prime in one fashion or another), what have you heard about them? Their training program is remarkably similar to Primes' - so my second question is - how is the pay? Sorry if that is a little too personal, and you certainly dont have to answer it - but my recruiter tells me to expect $400 for 20 weeks and then
.21/mile to finish out my 15 month commitment...does that sound about right?

I appreciate any sort of feedback!!! Thanks, again!