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!

Friday, July 11, 2008

Packing potatoes again

Lori didn’t quite make it to Corinne, Utah with her load of produce. She didn’t have enough driving hours left to make it there by 3 a.m., so she handed off the trailer to another team in Salt Lake City – and then went to bed.

Now that she doesn’t need to be close to home for the next month or so, she’s heading back east (well, at least to the Midwest). Right now she’s in American Falls, Idaho picking up nearly 40,000 pounds of potatoes headed for Elwood, Kansas. Her route takes her through one of her favorite parts of the country – Highway 30 from Idaho to Wyoming right through a caribou migration area.

The ‘taters aren’t due until Monday morning so she can take her time getting to Kansas.

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