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, July 22, 2008

Change in plans

Lori is at the “mother ship” (Prime’s headquarters in Springfield) after dropping off her trailer full of fresh pork. She was scheduled to take the load to its destinations in Houston and Hammond, Louisiana but a significant delay in getting the pork loaded in Ottumwa, Iowa put her behind schedule. The only way to get the load delivered on time Wednesday morning was to have a team take over and drive it “non-stop.”

As long as she’s at headquarters, Lori is going to take the opportunity to rest up, get some of Prime’s world-famous sweet tea, do some laundry, drink some sweet tea, visit the company store to redeem her “6-month anniversary” gift certificate, drink some more sweet tea, get a few maintenance items taken care of on the truck, have one more glass of sweet tea. and meet with the “log book” administrator to review some “discrepancies” on her logs.

Dispatch told her they’ll have a load for her at 3:00 Wednesday afternoon, but she doesn’t know where to yet.

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