3 weeks out on the road, making a living, there's got to be a better way then spend countless nights and days on the road meeting somewhat almost impossible deadlines. As I've done many times in the past, I call home and let the wife know that am less then 8hrs out and I'll be in her arms soon, and once again, we'll have a whole week to ourselves.
One of the many things that we long distance drivers hate is taking a frigging shower at truck stops and doing our laundry in washers and dryers used by every low life out on the road, esp. the Swift drivers! It use to be that JB Hunt was the talk of the road and when you watch a JB driver trying to back up, you'll know what we mean, it's like a circus out here. I was once parked at this truck stop down in a truck stop in Dallas, TX, and I saw this JB driver bobtailing, he was in the process of backing underneath a trailer and the king pin was too high and it went over the 5th wheel. Now, too some that might be fine but it's NOT the correct way to hook up to a trailer. Anyway, he thought he was hooked up to it and got out and hooked the air lines, cranked the landing gear up, he didn't even check if the 5th wheel handle was engaged. He disengaged the air brakes and proceeded forward and then made a tight turn, the trailer went one way and he went the other and the end result was a loaded trailed NOSED deep in the pavement, landing gear and all. I tell you, it's a circus out here. Homeward bound here I come!
I got to the front door and the door began opening and there she is, the love of my life with desires and dreams to fulfill of a hard working man's life. Now, my wife, Renee, is what is known as a BBW and that's mighty fine with me, I'll beat the living crap out of anyone that says she's chubby or god-forbid, fat! Anyway, she greeted me at the door with that beautiful smile of hers that could melt an iceberg, clothed in the Lavender sleeping robe I had bought her, I dropped my bags and held my arms out for her and finally, we snuggled like 2 old bears in a tight embrace. Knowing that the neighbors might be watching us, I slammed the front door closed with my foot without letting go of her.