In the trucking world, at least over the road, Friday really doesn’t mean what it means to the regular working world. The weekends are the time that over the road truck drivers really have to hunker down most of the time and get some loads out. I don’t know how many Sunday mornings I have spent at the Kroger facility in Forest Park Georgia! Also every Walmart distribution center, Publix, Aldi Warehouse, and not to mention many, many more places I’ve spent the night in their parking lot on the weekend or holiday wishing I was somewhere else. I drive local now but let’s try to remember all those folks that are out there giving it all they got this holiday coming up, Thanksgiving and Christmas and New years Day. We need to appreciate our truck drivers more than we do. I say this not only because my husband was a great truck driver before he passed away and there are many many more out there like him that bust their tail everyday so that we can have the things we need and they get overlooked, they get talked to like they are trash and they are not allowed to use restrooms in places that they have to  sit for hours and hours and sometimes days. They sacrifice time with their families, their friends, their hobbies to make sure we get all the things that we need to have a beautiful Christmas and have a beautiful Thanksgiving. Yes, I am a little biased. Some of my best friends are truck drivers as well as some family members. I just want to raise awareness on this site to what truck drivers really do. This is going to be an informative site for truck drivers as well as people just browsing to really see what we go through out here and what some of us have been through. My husband was 48 years old and he died of a stroke in his truck while I was at school learning how to drive a truck on my second day. I have so much more to say but I’ll end here. I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there and I hope you have a great one and if you’re not able to be with your family I pray that you have a good day anyway in spite of. RTS founder, April