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, June 14, 2008

Running Naked across the country

No, not that kind of naked! Lori has a load of Naked Juice headed for northern Pennslyvania and New York (Buffalo).

She got the "all clear" from the doctor on Friday so she picked up the trailer of juice late Friday afternoon and drove to a truck stop just outside of Barstow. Mike drove up to meet her for the night before he headed off to Tehachapi to spend Saturday with his dad for Father's Day and Lori took off down Interstate 40. She'll spend the night between Santa Rosa and Tucumcari, NM before moving out on the next segment of the trip, which will probably end at Prime headquarters in Springfield for some fuel, new "load locks" to hold everything in place inside the trailer, and some locking fuel tank caps. With increasing reports of fuel being stolen right out of truck's tanks, we've decided to take the extra precaution.

The first delivery is due early Tuesday morning so Lori will spend the next two days out on the road.

1 comment:

Heffard said...

How is Lori liking driving now?
I am a newbie and should be going in July or August.

I like your blog. Just found within the last 3 or 4 weeks.

Jeff