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When I started driving, trailers were 45 or 48 feet long and were allowed to gross weigh 73,280 pounds. Even then, people were complaining about us running over their curbs, landscaping and other obstacles due to the long trailers. States were hollering that we were tearing up their roads and bridges. Many warehouses and factories were not meant for any trailers over 40 foot and were difficult to get into their docks or facilities.
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2012 is here and I hope everyone has a wonderful new year.
I had some great times in 2011
In early May I reached my goal of 2,000,000 miles safe driving…
In May I got to go to Wal-marts Home Office for a Drivers Grass Roots Meeting. Sunday night they put me up in a motel in Woodland, CA as my flight left very early on Monday morning.Monday was a travel day to Bentonville AR. They had some Vans rented for the drivers and I got the pleasure of driving to the motel. I shared a room with Gary Martin aka Turkey Neck a driver from Porterville CA, we were on our own for dinner that night. Tuesday and Wednesday we had our meeting. We also got to tour home office and the Wal-mart airport where they keep all the wal-mart jets, it was all pretty neat stuff to see. We also went to the original Walton’s 5 & 10 which is now a museum. They had a great BBQ at the Transportation Shop where they shared some of the new technologies with us. After the Wednesday meeting we where on our own again. Thursday was a travel day home and I took Friday off to get some rest. It was a really good experience and I’m glad I was picked to go. It nice to know that they care what we think and to see all the support that goes in to making our job so much easier.
Pictures from Walmart Grassroots Meeting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richberry/sets/72157628783702853/
August 3rd was my seventeenth year anniversary with Walmart.
In August we took our family vacation to Florida. We had a great time visiting with the relatives. We also layed Judi’s dad Pete’s ashes to rest at the Veterans Cemetery in Sarasota. Pete was 98 years old when he passed and had what I consider a great life. Before we left we spent a day at the Mouses House aka Disney world.
The holiday season and all it craziness when by smoothly and now we are on to a New Year and new adventures…
I have finally gotten around to creating my New TruckerRich site. While renaming and moving the old site on Free Audio Books to truckerrich.com/freeaudiobooks, and also creating a new site for Safety at truckerrich.com/safety, I still have quite a bit of work to do on all of my sites, but a least I’m off to a good start. I’m missing links to all the photo’s on the old site, so I have to replace them. I need to build the safety site from scratch.
Two new sites I have started are:
ModMyJeep.com I will be posting mods to my Jeep, and looking for manufacturers to showcase their goods.
BecauseofBob.org for my daughter-in-law to post her non-profit charity site. Because of Bob, who passed away at the young age of 33 from a heart attack, will feature articles on Heart health, and to also raise money for a college fund to help families that have lost their parent due to premature heart attack..