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

Hi in the middle and round on both ends

Yes, we're in the great state of Ohio (or as truck drivers calll it, "slow-hio," given the 55 mph speed limit for trucks).

We were supposed to be making a delivery of hams from Nebraska right about now but, just as we were stopping to take a short sleep break last night, we got a call from our relief dispatcher asking if we could "repower" a load from another driver and take to the Harry & David facility in Hebron, OH about 50 miles away. Sure, no problem. So we swapped trailers at the local truck stop and headed down the road.

It was an easy delivery since it was a drop and hook (leave the loaded trailer there and go hook up to an empty one). After that, it was over to a truck stop to get some sleep and wait for our next assignment.

We're scheduled to be home this Friday so we're thinking/hoping our next load will take us right to California.
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