Lori’s at another cold storage facility picking up produce headed for Wal-Mart. This time she’s in Salinas, CA (the setting for several of John Steinbeck’s novels) picking up a load headed for the Wal-Mart distribution center in Corinne, UT.
It was a lenthy “deadhead” run from Sparks to Salinas (more than 300 miles) but sometimes you have to go where the freight is. Anyway, since Lori’s a company driver, she doesn’t really mind if she drives empty or full because she gets paid the same either way. Lease operators, on the other hand, may not accept a load with this much deadhead mileage unless the total revenue is high enough to cover their expenses for driving the extra miles.
This run is a two-day trip with delivery set for Friday morning.
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