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!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Back to Jersey

We spent most of the day Monday having our QualComm messaging system fixed. It wasn’t a total loss, however, as we got to enjoy lunch at an authentic Chicago hot dog stand across the street from the repair shop.

We were hoping we’d be done in time to pickup a load going to Fresno but no such luck. Instead we were assigned a load of beef going from Forest Park, IL (more about this city in the following post) to Woodbridge, NJ (just south of NYC).

The weather turned very cold and windy. We even saw a few snow flurries in Chicago and as we drove across Indiana today. We’re hoping the bad weather in New Jersey clears up before we get there tomorrow morning.

Our route took us by Grandpa’s Cheese Barn in Ohio so I got to experience the aisles of cheese, meats, canned veggies and relishes, and candy for myself. We picked up a variety of cheese and meats for dinner along with a jar of peaches and some sweets, including chocolate-covered Fritos, which are surprisingly good! We would have bought more but our refrigerator isn’t big enough to hold everything we wanted to get.

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