well it's Thursday night and supposedly I will be leaving Milwaukee on Friday morning. But we all know how shipping schedules can be.
So today was productive. I got my ass out of bed and headoed over to the bank. Since we sold the dogs house out on the coast of California we had a little bit of money to do some banking with. The money has to remain reasonably liquid so I can acquire a home here in the frozen tundra.
I would probably rather gone a few more blocks up the street and purchased a new Harley. apologies to riders oof other brands, but as I learned hauling bikes around the country a true biker will respect you for being a rider, not for your ride. Maybe we should apply that to other facets of our lives.
Some of us are long haul, some of us are regional, and some of us are home every day. Whatever capacity we are in as drivers we need to respect all other drivers. Cars, semis, bobtails, delivery drivers, motorcyclists. All share the road equally and the burden of safety. Keep that in mind
Here in Milwaukee I live right next to I-894 at the junction of I-43. What's with the straight pipes??? Hello at 3 AM I find it rather annoying. Are these guys compensating for shortcomings elsewhere? As I drive this intersection every time to Chicago and beyond I don't even need a Jake. It's all about learning to anticipate the road.
Well enough for now.
Keep Safe.
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vacations over
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Posted on Thu, Jun 08 2006 @ 10:08 PM [CST]
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well here it is Wenesday and my faithful friend and I have made it to home in California.
We ahven't been here for a month and the weeds look it. At least this time the lawnmower started on the first pull.
So as you are out there running around, try to remembeer that peopple in cars can be truck drivers on a day off, family of truck drivers, or customers of yoours. Treat the motoring public with respect and we will eventually get respect in return.
Drive safe
We ahven't been here for a month and the weeds look it. At least this time the lawnmower started on the first pull.
So as you are out there running around, try to remembeer that peopple in cars can be truck drivers on a day off, family of truck drivers, or customers of yoours. Treat the motoring public with respect and we will eventually get respect in return.
Drive safe
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Posted on Wed, May 10 2006 @ 11:26 AM [CST]
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Well here goes nothing.
Like another blog I had read, I too saw this article and thought ,"why not?".
There are many things that could be put down here to start out. For starters I have been out here for close to 30 years. In that time I have learned that there is a very vocal obnoxious element in the trucking industry. Whether it is over modulated radios or plain old rudeness to all we all know about the bad things out there.
We are in a new hard time these days. It used to be we never thought that fuel would ever reach $1.00 per gallon. Well that only dates us if we remember that. With fuel at $3.00 and rising it is time to be a lot more conservative in our driving. Seventy five miles per hour is completely uncalled for anymore. Drive 6 and log like you drove 72 and no more high fuel bills and no more bitching about the 10 hours off at night.
and really if you want to be a train engineer, go to the railroads for a job. I for one am sick and tired of being awakened at night by some moron blowing his friggin train horn in a truckstop at 2AM. Must be compensating for a lack elsewhere in life.
If we all acted responsible maybe the public would start to respect us again. Move over when you see a car on the side of the road, don't try to blow them away. After all, the freight on your truck is going to be consumed by a person or persons who may not be truck drivers. In other words the four wheelers are our cutomers. Treat them with respect. I am tired of explaining to my parents why there is a truck up their ass on the Interstate.
Well enough for now, drive safe and drop drop a few miles per hour and sooner or later the oil companies will want to know why the trucking industry isn't buying so much fuel.
Like another blog I had read, I too saw this article and thought ,"why not?".
There are many things that could be put down here to start out. For starters I have been out here for close to 30 years. In that time I have learned that there is a very vocal obnoxious element in the trucking industry. Whether it is over modulated radios or plain old rudeness to all we all know about the bad things out there.
We are in a new hard time these days. It used to be we never thought that fuel would ever reach $1.00 per gallon. Well that only dates us if we remember that. With fuel at $3.00 and rising it is time to be a lot more conservative in our driving. Seventy five miles per hour is completely uncalled for anymore. Drive 6 and log like you drove 72 and no more high fuel bills and no more bitching about the 10 hours off at night.
and really if you want to be a train engineer, go to the railroads for a job. I for one am sick and tired of being awakened at night by some moron blowing his friggin train horn in a truckstop at 2AM. Must be compensating for a lack elsewhere in life.
If we all acted responsible maybe the public would start to respect us again. Move over when you see a car on the side of the road, don't try to blow them away. After all, the freight on your truck is going to be consumed by a person or persons who may not be truck drivers. In other words the four wheelers are our cutomers. Treat them with respect. I am tired of explaining to my parents why there is a truck up their ass on the Interstate.
Well enough for now, drive safe and drop drop a few miles per hour and sooner or later the oil companies will want to know why the trucking industry isn't buying so much fuel.
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Posted on Thu, May 04 2006 @ 11:36 PM [CST]
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