Tag Archives: Volvo 780

Key West Part 1

So I planned a weekend in Key West to celebrate Anne’s birthday.  We went with our good friends Jim and Sandi who now live in South Florida.  I am going to do a post about the whole trip but I … Continue reading

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Enough Time Has Passed

OK, I have waited long enough.  About two years ago we had an interesting experience. Anne posted a blog sometime in the Spring of 2012 about a great paycheck we received.  Because of just missing the pay cutoff on a 2500 … Continue reading

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Don’t be “Claire”

I am a huge Mike Rowe fan.  You know, the guy from “Dirty Jobs” and the voice of “The Deadliest Catch”  I think he is the voice of reason crying in the wilderness regarding jobs in America.  Hard work really … Continue reading

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Still Loving Life

We have been so busy and life has been crazy. We really wanted to make it to the Colorado State University Spring Football game to watch our son play.  Colorado sucks for freight and so it is hard to go … Continue reading

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“Yelping” Since 2009

One of the ways we make life awesome on the road is making sure we make time to have fun. It really does take planning as you cannot park a 70 foot vehicle just anywhere. When we are going to … Continue reading

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Spring Training

We spent a fabulous weekend in Phoenix for the last weekend of spring training. We of course were rooting for the Seattle Mariners. Craig’s Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister and Brother in law all came for the weekend. We got there … Continue reading

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Farm2Fleet’s new opportunity

As you know, if you have read this blog, we are leased on to Farm2Fleet. A somewhat small, very fast growing, trucking company out of Chattanooga. We love it here and have no plans to go anywhere else. We did … Continue reading

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Annual “King of the Road” survey

I received an email last week from Atlas Van Lines with this information.  Somebody there found our blog and asked us to pass this along.  Pretty good information.  I am posting a link to the full survey, which is pretty … Continue reading

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Okay I was blown away tonight.

Tonight we were helping friends organize their new house. Hang tv’s and figure out where the furniture went. Now after we were sitting on their gorgeous deck relaxing. Talk turned to trucking and our blog. Okay maybe i’m really naive … Continue reading

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I am so over winter. I want spring to last as long.

This has been the worst winter we have been out on the road. At least in my book it is. We have had brakes freeze, -25 degrees without wind and just too much dang snow/ice. We left Pa last night … Continue reading

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