It's a Team's Life
Dancing
Learning to live in a small area takes coordination, patience, and the ability to read what and where the other person is going to move next.
The other day Bob and I were both getting dressed at the same time and I realized that neither of us where thinking about it, but both of movements coordinated with what the other was doing. Neither was interfering with the others movements and each of us was getting dressed for the day at the same pace.
In 2000 when we first entered
trucking full time and gone from the house a month at a time we did not have
the moves.
When we were new to living in
a small area one would get dressed, make dinner, put their shoes on, while the
other stayed in bed or in the front seats.
Even our Cocker Spaniel Molly learned to stay out of the way until we
were settled into our respective
areas.
Now after many years on the
road and living in our truck for months at a time the dance has became very
intricate and precise.
We have a bigger
sleeper then we did when we started which I thought made all of the difference
in the world.
What surprised me though
was when our truck was down for damages caused by a car rear-ended us we moved
into an OEM sleeper and had no trouble modifying our dance.
We quickly changed our movements and the
fluency continued.
The "dance" goes on 24 hours a day and what makes it very easy to live in an area over 300 days a year that is smaller than many peoples walk in closets.
On a funny side note neither Bob nor me are dancers and have never been able to coordinate our moves on a dance floor.
Bob & Linda Caffee
TeamCaffee

Saint Louis MO
Expediters 8 years been out here on the road 13 years
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