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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: March 2011
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Saturday, March 26, 2011. Delivered last Disc Bine to Brim Tractor in Salem, then headed home for the first time in over a month. Nice. Friday, March 18, 2011. Random Pix for March. Kubota tractors bound for Fort Worth, Texas. Delivering Pipe to Tampa, Florida. Another snowstorm near Laramie, Wyoming. Our first dust storm, in Nebraska. We now had 24 hours (we thoug...
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: May 2011
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Monday, May 30, 2011. Playing Ring Around the Floodwater in Montana. I had just taken over in Butte, and Collin had just gone back to go to sleep, when we passed Livingston, and I saw a reader board with a rather enigmatical message that said: "ROAD CLOSED AHEAD, EXIT NOW". I call it an enigma because I wondered what "road"? It didn't say INTERSTATE, just "ROAD".
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: On Being a Truck Driver Who Writes
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Sunday, April 20, 2014. On Being a Truck Driver Who Writes. Or: On Being Tired and Out of Touch). So I've been on the road for three weeks, now, and we have been back and forth across the USA - not quite coast to coast. Let's see: Mill City, OR to Sisseton, SD to Watertown, SD to Mason City, IA to Faribault MN. That's over 13,000 (yes thousand! And you know what?
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: June 2011
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Friday, June 3, 2011. Pittsburg is the Pitts. Got a load out of US Steel in Pittsburgh, PA, so we drove the 200 miles from Williamsport empty to get there. The load was steel coils going to Brownsville, Texas - about as far south as you can go in the continental USA. Once we got to the mill, we ran into our next set of challenges: getting in. We went just a short w...
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: January 2012
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Friday, January 27, 2012. Drove to Malvern, Arkansas to pick up 5 reels of cable bound for Oregon. Four to be delivered in Prineville, one to be delivered to Portland. An opportunity to go home and put the truck into the shop for some pressing work that needs to be done. Delivered four reels to PacificCorp in Prineville, OR to a job site that turned out to be a new...
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: October 2011
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Friday, October 21, 2011. 20 yards on the right, 25 yards on the left). Monday, October 17, 2011. Cattle Panels and Crumb Rubber. After this delivery, we drove to Liberty Tire Recycling in Salt Lake City to pick up some 'crumb rubber' bound for a baseball field in Waupun, Wisconsin. This is a new ball park complex going in across the street from the school. One...
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: April 2014
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Monday, April 28, 2014. On Being a Sick Truck Driver. I've made a few small posts about this already, and I don't want to come across as whiny, but it really does suck being sick on a truck. I mean, it's not even really a bad cold, just stuffy head, sniffles, and aches, but oh, the things I take for granted when I'm sick at home. I thought I'd at least be able to g...
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Over the Road with the Ball & Chain: Starting Out Again
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Over the Road with the Ball and Chain. A truck driver over the road with my husband - blogging about the road, and the various sights we see. Monday, March 31, 2014. So, we kick off another year of trucking with a resounding thud. Since I last blogged here, we changed our system so that I take a few months off in the winter, which does a lot toward preventing the need to save our marriage. See, things slow down enough in the winter that we would just be butting heads and going stir crazy. The trucking co...
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