ctclibby
Well-Known Member
Good Morning All!
44F @ 86% and foggy ... again. Supposed to get to 75F bout noon. Did that yesterday, so why not.
Rambling today -
Animals What would we do without them? Our 19YO Blue Healer is still plodding on with issues. Sometimes the back part does not do what the front part wants and she slaps the ground. We are biting our tongues waiting until she decided that she has had enough. Great dog. Note that she does not seem to be in any pain and has bright eyes so we will let nature run its course.
Trucking Even though I have not been out there for the length of time some of you have, I did get 8+ years in with many miles between us; around a million and 1/2 in the truck, no clue of what the actual drive miles are. After we got to our 'final' company we were averaging 230,000 per year. That was for about 5 years. We did the trucking school thing as that was the fastest way to pay. This school was pretty in depth and we actually learned something. Nowadays the colleges are putting out wannabe's every quarter. The .gov had there hands in that as they determined that somebody with more than 15 years ( or more ) experience was not good enough. I started on 10 speeds and did that for just over a year. Also did a gear hi/low split ( vs group split ) for a bit, and a 13 speed. Loved the 10 split as I could cruise downhill from the top of I5 ( Oregon or Cali, don't remember ) to Redding CA without touching the brake ( sometimes near 80K GVW ). When Maria was to come on the truck, they took me kicking and screaming into a Pete automatic. After my 1st time through LA, I loved it. It was easier to get her an automatic as then she could worry what was around her vs trying to downshift to slow it down. It did take me some time to get her foot off the brake! Anyway, one of the reasons we quit was all those 'New' idiots out there; and I am not talking about the four wheelers. Most seemed to think that they had a 70ft Porsche and tried to drive it as such. They would honk ya if they needed to move lane to lane and we were in their way. We won't even talk about crossing 3 or 4 lanes into an exit, or going down Grapevine or Cabbage Hill ( some know it as Deadman Pass ) riding the brakes. We did see many fires from those hot brakes! We learned with ELD's ( Qualcomm ) and really didn't have any problems with it. Pegasus ( final company ) always built in time to get to destination so we never felt 'scrunched' to get somewhere. Our ethic was to go first, play later so that helped. In fact, sometimes we would be over 24Hrs early and *most* of our receivers were glad to see us ( remember we were hauling drugs ). Funny thing is that when we would get home time, after about 4 days ( of 7+ ) we would miss the road. Since getting out last year Oct 1st, we do not miss the road. Ya, would like to see more sights and we do miss some of the people but spending time at home has its beni's.
Most of our trailers ( Box or Refer ) were actually 13'3" even though the sticker stated 13'6". And I always got a kick out of those OO's that would add the 2nd stack to make the truck look better. They did not connect it to the system. Yup, 2 CB antenna's and 2 stacks. Good looking truck.
Crud: Something was not quite right yesterday am. Wasn't BP or BS. Finally about noon I could feel a fever coming on. OK, so do the routine. HOT shower for 15/20 minutes. Put on insulated undies, jeans, multiple shirts and socks and get the body warmed up. Drink *lots* of water and eat carbs. Made it almost to 1900 and went to bed with multiple comforters to sweat. Every 3ish hours get up and drink water; P2. Bout 0130 ate more carbs; pizza pieces left from dinner to feed that fever. Noticed that when I got up at 0400ish, fever was almost gone. Good. Drink more, go back to bed. Made it 11 hours and got up about 6 this am. Still have some dregs and sinus pressure but it is going away. So, gonna be a somewhat slow day.
Willie: Yup, for reasons unknown, I too am not allowed to paint. Suspect that I always want to spray it to get-r-done. Go figure.
Thats enough of the book.
Later
44F @ 86% and foggy ... again. Supposed to get to 75F bout noon. Did that yesterday, so why not.
Rambling today -
Animals What would we do without them? Our 19YO Blue Healer is still plodding on with issues. Sometimes the back part does not do what the front part wants and she slaps the ground. We are biting our tongues waiting until she decided that she has had enough. Great dog. Note that she does not seem to be in any pain and has bright eyes so we will let nature run its course.
Trucking Even though I have not been out there for the length of time some of you have, I did get 8+ years in with many miles between us; around a million and 1/2 in the truck, no clue of what the actual drive miles are. After we got to our 'final' company we were averaging 230,000 per year. That was for about 5 years. We did the trucking school thing as that was the fastest way to pay. This school was pretty in depth and we actually learned something. Nowadays the colleges are putting out wannabe's every quarter. The .gov had there hands in that as they determined that somebody with more than 15 years ( or more ) experience was not good enough. I started on 10 speeds and did that for just over a year. Also did a gear hi/low split ( vs group split ) for a bit, and a 13 speed. Loved the 10 split as I could cruise downhill from the top of I5 ( Oregon or Cali, don't remember ) to Redding CA without touching the brake ( sometimes near 80K GVW ). When Maria was to come on the truck, they took me kicking and screaming into a Pete automatic. After my 1st time through LA, I loved it. It was easier to get her an automatic as then she could worry what was around her vs trying to downshift to slow it down. It did take me some time to get her foot off the brake! Anyway, one of the reasons we quit was all those 'New' idiots out there; and I am not talking about the four wheelers. Most seemed to think that they had a 70ft Porsche and tried to drive it as such. They would honk ya if they needed to move lane to lane and we were in their way. We won't even talk about crossing 3 or 4 lanes into an exit, or going down Grapevine or Cabbage Hill ( some know it as Deadman Pass ) riding the brakes. We did see many fires from those hot brakes! We learned with ELD's ( Qualcomm ) and really didn't have any problems with it. Pegasus ( final company ) always built in time to get to destination so we never felt 'scrunched' to get somewhere. Our ethic was to go first, play later so that helped. In fact, sometimes we would be over 24Hrs early and *most* of our receivers were glad to see us ( remember we were hauling drugs ). Funny thing is that when we would get home time, after about 4 days ( of 7+ ) we would miss the road. Since getting out last year Oct 1st, we do not miss the road. Ya, would like to see more sights and we do miss some of the people but spending time at home has its beni's.
Most of our trailers ( Box or Refer ) were actually 13'3" even though the sticker stated 13'6". And I always got a kick out of those OO's that would add the 2nd stack to make the truck look better. They did not connect it to the system. Yup, 2 CB antenna's and 2 stacks. Good looking truck.
Crud: Something was not quite right yesterday am. Wasn't BP or BS. Finally about noon I could feel a fever coming on. OK, so do the routine. HOT shower for 15/20 minutes. Put on insulated undies, jeans, multiple shirts and socks and get the body warmed up. Drink *lots* of water and eat carbs. Made it almost to 1900 and went to bed with multiple comforters to sweat. Every 3ish hours get up and drink water; P2. Bout 0130 ate more carbs; pizza pieces left from dinner to feed that fever. Noticed that when I got up at 0400ish, fever was almost gone. Good. Drink more, go back to bed. Made it 11 hours and got up about 6 this am. Still have some dregs and sinus pressure but it is going away. So, gonna be a somewhat slow day.
Willie: Yup, for reasons unknown, I too am not allowed to paint. Suspect that I always want to spray it to get-r-done. Go figure.
Thats enough of the book.
Later
