jormagund

New Hampshire is beautiful! I very much enjoyed it the last time i visited there. And god forbid if you pass a tractor! I actually laughed outloud about that!

while we're waiting... let's tell jokes...
I'll start...


What's brown and sticky?

Thanks for understanding! So many people just don't so it's nice to finally hear from someone who does! And I hope you get home soon! You've been midwest here for a while and it gets incredibly boring out this way!

aww drat! I always seem to miss people comming/gooing too!

I believe I did look into those companies you mentioned a ways back. If I recall correctly I mostly found that their training facilities are very far away. Good idea though.

I agree with you about the bookmarks thing. I checked that EVERYDAY. I hate that you can only see 3!

It will just take some time to get used to though. I REALLY did like the old layout though....

A trucker telling a motorcyclist about how bad drivers are is really preaching to the choir. Or addressing the same problem from different perspectives. A guy in the motorcycle discussion group just did a post about how an 87-year old man turned in front of him, and messed up his leg. Being a biker here in springfield will quickly tell you about how much stopping power you've got in your front brake.

I plan to keep my trailer for a while. I certainly don't ever plan to live entirely out of a truck. i would certainly have to have a massive yard sale and put a bunch of stuff in storage to do that.

Buying my own rig would certainly be exciting, but i guess the decision would just have to depend on sitting down with a pad and calculator and figuring out whether the numbers point to owership or employeeship. I've had the theory that for the first couple of years, (after the first year of learning what I'm doing) I might want to go completely bezerk and do as much long distance hauling as is humanly possible so as to make as much money as possible. I'd like to own a real house, even if I'm away a lot. Thing about that though is that though is sometimes I think I'd like to move out to buffalo or pittsburg where the real estate is way cheaper, as in a third of what it is around here. I could take classes at the local university and start myself an academic career after truckin for maybe ten years or so. No battle plan survives the first engagement so . . .

whatever. right now step one, or maybe it's step two, is to find a job that'll keep me alive while I'm in school.

Truckin, got my chips cashed in . . . I tend to get that Dead song stuck in my head lately.

Take care.

Yes, the bookmark sucks now but what to do...... blah. Oh well. I hope driving goes well and safe baby.

Ahh well sometime when you are closer then! And enjoy the long boring drive back east when the time comes too!

Interesting views can be worth a lot. Good luck driving all night.

If I was you id go for the laptop, I had one on the road with wireless internet, it was damn nice. I could watch DVD's on it and surf the web. Prettymuch took care of everything I needed.

I spent 1300 on mine. It does pretty good, but it is a far cry from the alienware I want.

I'm not surprised that there's a high bullshit factor. But there has tended to be one in various carreers I've been in or looked into, be it teaching, retail, or real estate. At least the money's decent in truckin'.

At this point I THINK i'm interested in going over the road, a new term I've learned. In a 'screw'. See the country some and then when I'm sick of that do some more local hauling. I have a bit of a color blindness issue as well and my mom's diabetic and hypertensive but hopefully these things haven't kicked in in me yet.

About how many miles are you putting in a year, to get what you're earning?

I don't expect my training situation will be near-ideal like yours was but it should hopefully be at least adequate. I wonder how you came across my journal. A keyword search or from something I posted in a discussion group?