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People who are not in the trucking industry may think that being a trucker’s wife is an easy task, but they would be mistaken. A trucker’s wife not only has her house work, laundry, and other every day tasks of her own to do, she also has to be the one who pays the bills when and if she receives a check from her husband.

A truckers wife has to be the one to do the books and to figure out where the money is coming from and where it is going to go and to make sure she has a little bit to live on while her husband is away. A trucker’s wife has to mow the lawn, fix the car, and instantaneously become a plumber or an electrician. She has to be a mother and a father to the children, work a full time job, cook the meals, run her husbands errands, run her own errands, take out the trash and make sure things run as smoothly as possible while her husband is on the road. She has to keep an upper lip and a smile on her face while doing double duty for her husband and herself. A trucker’s wife has to