Friday, April 25, 2008

Job description:

Demented Travel Agent

Prerequisites: 6 hands, 4 eyes, infallible memory, multi-tasking ability, must be able to talk on phone and research routes/road conditions/weather reports/current weather/locate fuel/locate low bridges/calculate HoS in your head. Must be able to do all your usual tasks, plus route and dispatch. Any prospective applicant who demonstrates hesitance when required to never leave their place of residence without MC atlas, truck stop guide, multiple maps, cell phone and bluetooth, need not apply. Must understand FMCSA regulations, various state's regulations and be able to apply that knowledge to any situation. Must be able to absorb frustration, process it and continue. Adaptability vital to the position.
Other requirements will be made clear as they come up.


Welcome to the world of the over-the-road trucker's wife.... LOL

Monday, April 21, 2008

For every bad, a good.

Himself had a bad last week.
Then he had a 36 off so called me. The good is this: we got to spend the weekend together for a change. Just us, having fun.
Another bad today, truck lost an air brake, delivery not in time as rcv'r dock closed.... wonder what the good for this one will be?
If it's better than the last bad/good trade-off, it will be phenomenal!
This life is not for everyone but, if you can handle it, the rewards are great. The frustrations and problems are not great, but those balances.... Oh, yeah.
For every bad there is an equal and opposite reaction, a good.

Stop the Spying!

About Me

A hobby cook from the Midwest. Experiments, thoughts, new recipes, maybe even a photo or two... You noticed the pouting little girl with the words superimposed over her face? Growing up in the 60s and 70s the refrain of "there are starving children in [insert current poverty-stricken nation] that would love to have such... etc etc etc." I don't know that anyone actually believed all that but the image of a starving foreign child, holding out a bowl in hopes of being gifted with boiled tongue or green tomato pie, was pretty powerful. I do recall the kind of trouble kids would inevitably be in if they dared to say what most of us thought: "Well, then, send this stuff right on over to those poor, starving [insert country] kids." I don't usually post other people's photos, just my own. If you want to borrow or use one of my photos, I would appreciate your asking first. I usually don't mind but do hate having my work attributed to someone else. By the way, I found the photo of that pouting girl on the web with no attribution. If it's yours? We'll deal, ok? Thanks.
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