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, August 25, 2008

"Two Forks" up

There are lots of ways to indicate the quality of a restaurant but we saw what had to be the highest recommendation we can think of; a string of NASCAR car haulers sitting in the parking lot outside a restaurant off I-40 in Henryetta, Oklahoma.

We had seen a steady stream of NASCAR haulers heading westbound on I-40 all morning long as they made their way from yesterday’s race in Bristol, TN to this weekend’s race in Fontana, CA. A couple of billboards for the Pig Out Palace restaurant had also caught our attention, so we were on the lookout for it wondering how a place with a name like that would look. We weren’t disappointed.

There it sat, right off the highway with a low-slung roof, giant sign, gravel parking lot and a long row of car haulers. If there’s anybody that knows good food it has got to be truck drivers who work in the stock car industry. We made a note in our list of truck stops so we can be sure and stop by next time we’re coming through here (it’s open 24 hours!).

See for yourself what they have to offer by visiting their website here.

P.S. - We're currently sitting at a shipper in Fort Gibson, OK waiting to get called to the loading dock. I'll be driving for a couple of hours after we get finished here.

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