Tag Archives: Married Team Driving

Seattle did beat a one legged quarterback.

There are no hard feelings. I will be rooting for Seattle from here on out. Wish RG3 hadn’t been left in the game but that’s a whole other blog. We just ran from Indiana down to Laredo and praise the … Continue reading

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Two Whole Years

and she still has not killed me.  Two years ago tomorrow we got on the bus headed for Irving Texas and US Xpress Orientation.  Cannot believe what the last two years have delivered to us.  We have had a lot … Continue reading

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 39,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading

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One week as contractors

Well, it seems trucking as a contractor is a whole lot like trucking as a company driver.  You have the best of intentions…… We did not get out of Irving until Tuesday.  We did not have the Cab Card (basically … Continue reading

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A Pretty Great Month

OK, a whole month between posts.  I have the best of intentions but just been too lazy to do it. Had a great month really, got to stop in La Quinta CA to have dinner with one of my favorite … Continue reading

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We Get Around

I think it is amazing how many people look at our blog, and from all over the world.  We started this blog on December 13th, 2010 as we were finishing CDL school and choosing a company.  I was pretty surprised … Continue reading

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The perks.

I just want to write a quick note about the perks of this job. Last night I slept in my own bed. We did a reset in Cheyenne which is only 50 miles from our house. So we went home … Continue reading

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Change is a good thing….we hope.

11 Months ago we moved to the reefer (refrigerated) board and for the first six months it was just awesome.  USX had just started a reefer division and our Fleet Manager Phyllis was in charge of it and she is … Continue reading

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Sweet Home Wisconsin

This week anyway.  We are at my sisters in Oshkosh for my Niece’s wedding.  Love family time…..also love getting away from family time, lol. We got to Chicago Tuesday afternoon on a load of Campbells Soup to Kenosha Wisconsin that did not … Continue reading

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Inside the International ProStar….with video

So, they finally caught up to us and has us stop in our Lexington NC Terminal to get a new truck.  We were pretty frustrated about it because we felt we had just broken in our Freightliner Cascadia at 350,000 … Continue reading

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