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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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I feel a bit inadequate

So this guy just walked by us in the restaurant wearing a shirt about three sizes too small.  Anne says “he is trying to make his muscles look bigger……….you should try that” Always building up my ego. Lol

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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 Rockies in the Fall

Just a beautiful drive this time of year…….completely different one month from now    

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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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Way too much stuff.

We are home for the holiday weekend. Yesterday we went to the Colorado State University game down at Mile High stadium. Cj’s first college game. He is red shirting this year. We had a blast!! Shelby and Lizzie (CJ’s girlfriend) … Continue reading

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