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, October 6, 2008

Quickie

We're sitting in a dock at a receiver in Austin, Texas.

This is our second delivery of the day after picking up an already loaded trailer at Prime's drop yard in Justin, TX (a small town between Dallas and Fort Worth where they make Justin boots) and making a delivery near downtown Dallas. While it wasn't a particularly heavy load, it was a bit challenging to haul as it was drums of semi-conducter polish.

We have our next assignment; a trip from Saguin, TX (just east of San Antonio) to Walnut, CA. With any luck we'll be able to spend some time at home after making the delivery.

OBSERVATION - People in Texas are REALLY proud of Texas. We have never seen so many state flags anywhere else. And these are BIG flags. Everybody also seems to have a rusted metal Texas Ranger-style star (also big) somewhere on their property

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Seguin, Texas not Sanguin, Texas.
Enjoy your blog. However when visiting my town please spell the name correctly.
Yes we are proud of our State/Nation. Yes we were an independant country before we allowed the United States to join us.

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