THE EASY LIFE

Ever since we got out of the night time driving routine, we have had a sweet run of assignments that have given us the miles, but were not on a tight time schedule. It affords us the opportunity to drive as much or as little as we want in order to meet the deadline. We had stayed in Tumwater, WA Thursday night, and arose to a hot shower and a hot mocha from the McDonald's at the truck stop. Then it was off to Puyallup to drop the organic celery at the Fred Meyer DC.

Shortly after going empty on the computer, we received our next assignment. But before we could start on our way, we needed to stop and get pallets. Not only were we going to pick up 24 pallets for our load, but for two other TWT trucks that were heading to the same place we were. I have to tell you, some of these pallet places are a true test for a truck driver trying to maneuver through a maze of stacked pallets. It awed me that Craig was able to make the turns, albeit, coming within inches of hitting these mile high stacked pallets, and visions of them coming crashing down on us was always in my thoughts. With the 72 pallets on board, we headed just 60 miles north to Arlington, WA for our next load.

We stayed at a very small service station which had truck parking and wouldn't you know it? It had a little coffee shack right in the parking lot. We went to sleep knowing that we would be enjoying a fresh hot coffee in the morning to get our day started right. This job doesn't get any better than this!

We had only 4 miles to go to arrive at Twin City Foods in Arlington. By the time we checked in, there were 5 trucks waiting to get loaded, but because we had the pallets for three of the loads, we were directed into the dock, much to the chagrin of the driver that had spent the night there thinking he would be loaded first.

We have about 42,000 pounds of frozen food that we will be delivering to Lathrop, Ca, just down the street from the Company yard in French Camp. The load does not deliver until Tuesday morning, so we aren't sure if we will indeed deliver or if we might get another load on Monday and leave the frozen food for the local driver to deliver. In any case, we continue our easy, relaxed, life on the road, as we head South once again and see if our luck continues at the Wal Mart in Chehalis, WA. If there is easy parking there, we just may have to buy a lottery ticket!