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A Journal of Trials & Tribulations On The Road....

About

Thank you for supporting this journal.  I am truly not so vain as to think that my writing is so wonderful that everyone will enthusiastically choose to pay to read it.  Not hardly.  I think, though, that there are some who do get something from my tales and I am glad for that.  Thank you for enabling me to continue to tell my stories from the road.

How Things Change...!

Things have changed so much that I must also alter this introduction because the former one no longer describes me or what I do accurately.

In the first part of the journal, from May of 2000 until August of 2003, I ran the East coast almost exclusively.  I ran for one week and then went home and another driver (my "partner," Tom,*) would get in the truck and run for his week.  I drove a Freightliner Century governed at 65 mph and did not often break any logbook rules.  I drove for a huge corporation that you would no doubt recognize if I told you the name.

You can throw all of that out the window now.  I now run meat and produce to the west coast as fast as I can get there and back. My "partner," Tom, also quit our previous employer and we are trying to run something similar now at our new employer, but it is none the less much different.  We are no longer on salary, but on mileage.  We run a faster truck for a tiny carrier. 

I don't know how long this particular job will last, but considering the economy's condition, it may be awhile.  I don't want to work for a carrier that will insist that I be on the road for 2 - 3 weeks at a time - been there, done that, don't want to go back!  Even carriers that get drivers home weekends don't appeal much to me.  I've served my "road time," and I now crave and need my "home time." 

I'm not sure what I'm waiting for or looking for.  I'm just taking it one day at a time and one mile at a time and I'll tell you all about what that consists of as I go.

Thanks again for your patronage.

*Name changed to protect privacy.