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!

Monday, June 23, 2008

This "Buda's" for you

Mystery solved! Buda, Texas is pronounced like the name of the famous beer not the religious figure with the big belly.

Lori arrived tonight but will have to wait until tomorrow morning to make the delivery since this location closes at 5:00 p.m. She'll be glad to get this particular load out of the trailer since the chemicals on board were in liquid form. Even though it's in barrels, the motion of the liquid makes for an interesting ride. Whenever there was a bump in the road, the trailer continued to bounce for a few extra seconds as the liquid continued to move in the barrels. It also tended to push the truck forward going down hills and drag the truck backwards going uphill. And stopping was somewhat challenging as the liquid wanted to keep moving.

Not sure where Lori will be going next. We'll find out tomorrow!

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