It's a Team's Life

White Stuff

I was pleased when I looked at the weather for upper Ohio on the lake and the weather was going to be in the 60’s.   I was so confident I than accepted a load going to the border of Wisconsin / Minnesota.   Was I in for a surprise when I checked the weather.   Luckily, I also checked the time and realized all of this was going to happen on Bob’s driving shift.  

We do not have our slush busters yet and I felt Bob stop the truck a couple of times to get out and smack the windshield wipers to remove the build up of snow and ice.   We need to get home and get our slush busters that arrived the day after we left home in September.   Slush Busters are awesome and we have not run a winter without them.   They are thin pieces of plastic that adhere to our windshield and are clear.   The windshield wipers run across the Slush Busters and this scrapes the ice and snow off.   That thin piece of plastic is amazing on how clear our windshield stays through the winter.   I am short and getting out and beating on the windshield wiper was really an experiment on balance and the ability to hang on with one hand while leaning out in a precarious position.  

 

After I looked up the weather, I started a bag of bean soaking.   The reason I say bag is I have found it is much easier to soak beans overnight in a bag to contain the water and the bean than in a bowl that sloshes going down the road.   In the morning, I set my rice cooker down into my sink on a plastic liner to keep the cooker from sliding and start cooking my beans.   Boy does the truck start smelling wonderful in a short amount of time.

Today after we unload our load, we will have a nice pot of beans waiting for us!   Bring on the snow I am ready.

Bob & Linda Caffee
Leased to: FedEx Custom Critical
TeamCaffee
Saint Louis MO
Expediters 5 years been out here on the road ten years
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