Luckily the trailers are refrigerated or this load of Kraft cheddar cheese would have been more like nacho sauce! It is HOT in Houston, not to mention humid. When Lori mentioned to another driver that she was headed to Houston he said he had just left and couldn’t be happier because he was tired of “breathing hot water.” How right he was!
Lori’s current load is a mish-mash of stuff destined for the mother ships of all mother ships – Wal-mart’s main distribution center in Bentonville, Arkansas. The trailer is filled with items collected at two warehouses in the Houston area. The first was a load of camping items, all of which had to be taken off the pallets and placed directly on the trailer floor, followed by a visit to an importer to pick up a variety of “dry items” from Asia.
Fortunately, this load is a “drop and hook” so Lori won’t have to wait for the camping equipment to be loaded back onto pallets. She’ll simply leave this trailer and go pick up another one. She is supposedly “pre-planned” (i.e, there is another assignment waiting for her) but nothing is for sure until the load assignment comes across the Qualcomm (the computer message system).
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