Finally headed home

Thank goodness! Last night we stopped at the Petro in Joplin,MO for the night. It worked out well because another team that is just starting out that we know ended up there for the night. So we all got up and the crack of dawn and went inside and were able to visit for close to two hours. If you guys read this, I know it was early for you to get up, but we really enjoyed it. Try to stick it out, because I promise, it DOES get easier. The first few months will try your patience but it will smooth out after that. I hope you got some more sleep after we left and have a safe trip the rest of the way to your destination.

So we headed out of Joplin around 0730 this morning. It is raining, raining, raining! I guess it does beat the snow though so I'm not going to complain. We should get in around 1500 this afternoon and then we will head over to pick Bandit up and then head home. We have a lot of phone calls and stuff to make this time while we are at home. We have to do a lot of serious thinking and talking to decide what we are going to do about becoming Owner/Operators. It is a definite step that we want top take, we just have to figure out if now is the time to do it. Freight is slow, but it IS starting to pick up. Plus, if we get started now, we have all summer to run hard and get a little saved up for when it gets slow again this time next year. We ran into a team in Auburn last week that just got their truck in October and she said they have been busy still averaging close to 6000 miles a week all through the winter. That is some good news for us. Granted our miles hasn't been the problem, it has been the weather. But maybe we will have a little more say in where we go as O/O since we have no say so at all right now as company drivers. But I will keep you updated on what happens and what we decide whenever we are able to make that decision.

That's all folks!