Monday, September 01, 2008

Here we sit again. We could not find an empty trailer at the Stansfield OR Wal-Mart to take to Potlatch in Lewiston ID. That load was heading to Las Vegas. Gordon took that load away from us, told us to go back to Wal-Mart and wait for an empty. Once you get the empty, take it to the Portland yard, were there is a load that need to go to Halsey OR, about a 190 mile drive. Once at Georgia Pacific in Halsey, your load is waiting and ready. It is a 2 dropper for Costco on Tuesday morning. We team drove, non stop to Rancho Cucamonga, so that we could get out of dealing with Costco. We got to LA this morning @ 10am. When we checked on the load this morning, we found out that our next load had been overloaded and was too heavy to run down the road. A local Gordon driver took it back to the Wal-Mart DC to have it reworked. We got an empty trailer and headed over to Wal-Mart to get the reworked load to find out that there closed. Gordon tells us to wait until the morning to get the load. Almost a 24 hours sitting. We were originally camped out at our new, under construction yard in Rancho Cucamonga. After I got up from a nap, Joy informed me that the toilets are over flowing in the portable trailer and there are no porta-potties. So I jumped in the seat and drove us over to one of the only truck stops in this area. Remember Land of the Lost, this TA is land of the lost lot lizards. We found an awesome parking spot that was easy to maneuver into and decided to go find some fresh veggies and fruit @ the buffet in the truck stop. Walked into the restaurant, and were hit by a wall of hot air, no AC.... 100+ but the food was good. So we are back in the nice cool truck, Joy is asleep and I though that I would add this journal entry to our lives as truckers. We are nearing are 2 year anniversary of truck driving almost 600,000 miles. It is amazing to think back to some of the most extreme situations that have confronted us while over the road. There is a new reality show on about tough jobs. Tonight they had the contestants’ drive trucks. I really hope that most of America was paying attentions to the degree of difficulty that we have to adhere to on a daily basis.

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