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, November 17, 2008

Chicago to Sacramento

At least we're coming to California.

It would have been nice to get a load going directly to Southern California but this assignment will get us into the state by late Wednesday. This is another "go dog go" load as it MUST deliver 40 hours after we leave Chicago. It's do-able if we average 50 mph all the way across, which could be a challenge given some of the terrain, particularly Donner Pass over the Sierras.

The weather forecast looks good for the entire route so that shouldn't present any problems. Given the driving schedule we probably won't have any more posts until we've delivered this load.
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