We never made it to Pottsville with our Sara Lee frozen pies. That's because we got a call from headquarters asking us to swap trailers with another driver who didn't have enough driving hours left to make his delivery. So he took our trailer to Pottsville and we took his trailer full of Yoplait yogurt to Haverhill, Massachusetts (just outside of Boston).
Even before we got there we had a pre-planned assignment going from Leominster, Massachusetts to Easton, Maine. Which brings us to today's geography question; where the heck is Easton, Maine? It wasn't listed in our atlas so we had to ask headquarters where it is. Turns out it's on the border of Maine and New Brunswick.
I have decided that 53-foot tractor trailers do not belong in New England. Since many of these towns were originally laid out in the 1700's, (the city limit sign on one town we went through - Lancaster, MA - said it was established in 1683), they didn't leave a lot of room on the roads for trucks this size. Give me the wide open spaces of the west any day!
Lori and I were wondering what the heck we would be taking to Maine and what (if anything) gets shipped out of there. Answer: We're bringing empty cardboard boxes to hold frozen french fries and we're taking out filled boxes of frozen food. It should be a quick turn around; drop the trailer of boxes, pick up the pre-loaded trailer of frozen food, and then hit the road for Suffolk, VA.
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