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, September 29, 2008

Ballet of the titans

I've been spending the past few days on the practice pad getting ready for my backing test. And I haven't been alone. It's a little like a ballet (with elephants ala Disney's Fantasia) when there are four or five trucks on the pad doing different manuevers. Here's a photo I took while waiting my turn for the "blind side" parallel parking manuever.

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