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Daily Life on the Road for Women

Apr. 15 2013

I receive a lot of emails from women asking how I live while out of the road- as far as taking care of myself hygiene wise. So today I thought I would put together a few picture with some links on what I use and how I get along while on the road and most importantly, how I still look like a lady which is very important to me. Most days I'm able to grab a shower, but there are those days where it just doesn't get done. Either because I get stuck at a dock, end up parking away from a truck stop, or the place closest

Something we already Knew

Feb. 12 2013

This story below is taken from the Trucker and I think validates what a lot of us truckers have felt about accidents all along involving personal vehicles and semi trucks. Yeah, we already knew this but it sure looks great in print. Once again driving home its point that it’s important for the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program to fairly address crash accountability, the American Trucking Associations today released results from several studies that found car drivers to be far more at fault in

Partnership, Love & Trucks

Jan. 31 2013

I wrote this before Christmas, and had meant to post it then, but as usual life got busy and something else came up. The reason I wrote this is because there are a lot of people going off and deciding to drive a truck these days- both male and female. Trucking is not the easiest profession on a relationship-actually it can be damn hard or totally wreck relationships, and it really takes a lot of love and understanding on both spouses part to make it work. Friday night I knew I should go. My mom called warning me of

Making Assumptions

Jan. 14 2013

For any of you that have been following along since the beginning, you know the reason I started One Girl trucking was because a drunk woman ran out in front of my truck, with her kids cheering her on because she said that I was speeding. And if you didn't, now you do! Well, you know what they say about assumptions right? I kind of had a conversation on Facebook with a gal that I grew up with not too long ago- the reason I say kind of is because after I told her that I thought she was making assumptions, she

Truck Cooking PT2

Nov. 06 2012

You may remember this above photo from my truck cooking post a while back. I have been on an adventure, and it has been a relaxing & satisfying one at that. I was brought up trucking with the mindset that you go until you are done. I have never been stuck on the road for 6 weeks at a time- even as a company driver, and it is a rarity for me to have to sit and wait on a load more than a handful of times in a year. For me, time has always been of the essence. There is no screwing around when I'm

Life & Truck Navigation

Oct. 20 2012

A while back as I was browsing through my many, many notes & directions looking for an old route into a cold storage that I had been to before, I took a picture. It wasn’t anything fancy, just a picture of my hand written driving directions going into an onion shed in Washington State. I laughed at myself thinking that this was my GPS—the only one I truly believe in, even though I know GPS's are becoming more and more popular with truck drivers every day. I myself refuse to buy one and have snubbed out

Retribution

Oct. 08 2012

Generally, I try to write about what happens out here on the road in good light (because there are so many writing about the bad) and, although I have obviously written some not so good stories about the trucking industry over the years, I have always said that I write about what I know. The following is totally what I know and what I'm guilty of, and it probably does not put me in the best of light in front of all of you, because I did lower myself to another persons level. I always try to be the best I can out

Quick Truck Meal Ideas

Aug. 25 2012

It's Saturday night, I put well over 600 miles of two lane on today and I'm hungry! It was raining out when I got here, which quickly put frying up a good burger out of my head so I moved on to plan B. I keep a stash of easy heat meals that I can heat up in my crockpot (since I don't own a microwave) under the bunk and prepackaged rice is one of them. Add that to a couple fresh (HOMEGROWN) tomatoes, shower them with some flaky salt, grind over fresh pepper and you have yourself a darn good meal. I generally

Truck Cooking

Aug. 23 2012

This is going to be a SUPER quick post, but when I put this together all I could think of was why are not more truckers cooking their own food rather than settling for truck stop crap & fast food? Do you like truck stop food? Does it taste good to you? Bleh. This meal above took me all of 20 minutes to make. It was a little on the costly side but you couldn't get a meal this good in a truck stop restaurant for the price. And it was easy. I picked up a filet mignon which was $9 bucks. I made a tomato salad

Life Experiences

Aug. 20 2012

Sometimes people get caught up in life or work and possibly the safety of the day to day humdrum. Sadly they never really get to experience anything out of the ordinary in their life- they are more comfortable to stay in that little world that they have created to wait out life. That person is not me. I'm more of a throw caution to the wind, cross fingers and hope for the best kind of gal...even though sometimes when I do this type of deal it bites me in the arse and/or causes me enough stress that I am still