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!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Staying (Relatively) Close to Home

Lori hit the road this morning after a great weekend with family, including a train ride to the beach with the grandkids (see photo below) and Lizzie's wedding shower.

Jenna and Tyler with Aunt Lynne taking a lunch break.
Lori's staying close to home for the rest of this week since she has to be back Friday morning for an additional doctor appointment. Fortunately, Prime appears to have more than enough business in the region this week so she shouldn't have any problems getting enough loads to keep her busy.
This morning, she picked up a trailer at the Ontario drop yard and took it about 40 miles to Perris. It was a load of "liquid plastic" in barrels, which sloshed around quite a bit making the trailer a little challening to pull.
After that, it was back to the Ontario yard to pick up another trailer headed for Woodland, CA. When Lori first talked to her dispatcher about the load she assumed it was headed for Woodland Hills, a couple of hours away on the west end of the San Fernando Valley. In reality, the load is heading for Woodland (without the Hills on the end), which is just north of Sacramento - nearly 500 miles away. Not a big deal, really; just not what Lori was expecting.

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