Donna’s next oldest brother changed careers a few months back. Used to program AS400s but after this last layoff and an unsuccessful job hunt in west-by-god-texas he went to tractor trailer drivin’ school and now roams the country driving a big rig.
A few weeks back he was passing this way and we made plans to go meet him somewhere, but the truck he was driving broke down in No-town, Alabama and we missed.
Yesterday he called and said that he had a load of carpets going to Laurens, SC (just a hop, skip and a jump from us) for Monday and would be spending the night at a truck stop somewhere in the upstate of SC. Donna managed to convince him to come closer to us than he originally planned, so we met him this evening for dinner near a Pilot Truckstop in Clinton.
Think stereotypical truck driver and Steve fits the picture (at least to me.) Sorry I didn’t take the digital camera. Donna’s mom brought her film point and shoot, so in about six months we’ll see the results. He drives for Covenant Transport and he has given us a link that will tell you where the truck is at any given moment, trouble is you have to have the current truck number he is driving, which we don’t. They have about 2,000 trucks so it would be pretty hard to luck onto his. I know one of the trucks he used to drive is in Washington state right now: Click Locate A Tractor and enter truck number 9617.
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