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me, by me, via cellphone Beginning of a great adventure, or just another day? Both I guess. I mean, I've been after this truck driving thing for quite a while now and seriously want/need to get out of factory work, so maybe this is like something big ... for me. OTOH it's just another day. The earth, moon, planets, sun, stars, and me - we're all just one day older and one day closer to our own personal end-game. Yeah. Just another day

FINALLY got my training done to my satisfaction. Backing up a tractor trailer is not something that comes easy to me. Driving is no problem - it's just 70 feet of vehicle checking in between 30 and 80 thousand pounds. But putting it into the space it belongs is the tricky part. Dunno how many hours and miles with Werner, then hours and miles with Swift. Much better company now, but I think Werner treated drivers better. Anyway something like 530 hours on the drive line so figure roughly 29,000 miles? I got almost all the data, just haven't done anything with it.

First trip solo: Phoenix AZ to Snowflake AZ with what is alleged to be 43,684 pounds of stuff. Dunno what stuff, not supposed to talk about it anyway, and the weight is probably not accurate. They gotta get me an empty, then I go trade an empty for a full then drive off to Snowflake then trade a full for an empty. Thus begins the game: drop & hook, drop & hook, drop & hook. Repeat until I don't need money anymore.

Oh and me and Lori are an item again