jormagund

As a relapsed smoker, I agree 100%. I occassionally go to one of the few places you can still smoke indoors in pvd and it's disgusting. I had pretty much quit going out when I was smoke-free and venues weren't.

I like to smoke when I choose to smoke, not when the dozen or so people around me choose to.

I wonder about how much you can get away with that. Although my last blog was pretty much about that anyway. The way I figure it you'll see mostly interstates but when you're getting near where you make a pickup or delivery you're gonna get on the smaller roads and see things a little more intimately. Although then that's going to be a lot of ugly industrial parks and that sort of things. Whatever. Beauty is generally not characteristic of the workplace.

They moved us into a new building at work, that used to be(is) a truck cross docking station. When it was pushing a hundred the past couple of days they tried backing a couple reefers up to the doors and running them to see if they would cool down the building. I had made the suggestion purely in jest, but anyway the idea really did not work.

Hell at the price fuel is going for, that thing will pay for its self in 6 months, if your truck burns 1.5 gal per hour conservatively when idleing, you would use 15 gallons during your off duty time. if your paying 3.099 for #2 that is $46.49 a day. if you do that an average of 5 days a week that works out to 232.45 a week, 929.70 a month. 11,156.40 a year. A rig master burns about 0.2 gallons per hour. that is 2 gallons a night, at a cost of 6.20 a day, 30.99 a week. 123.96 a month, $1,482.52 a year. So in a year a rig master will save you 9,668.88!!! and that is in fuel alone, so I am definately putting one on my truck.

WV never really bothered me too much in my truck, but I had the 550 cat with the 18, and I didnt pull at gross out that way much, so I could fly over the hills, for me the worst states out east to go to are either maryland, Liousiana or Illinois. Chicago land taking the cake as being the worst.

yeah, I wouldnt drive an auto, I drove one once, pulled it back in the lot, parked it and said fuck no not today thank you kindly. After this im going to drive a 18 speed and a 18 speed only. that 250 RPM split is absolutely awsome when it comes to playing with the hills.

And the series 60.. ok, im going to shut up now

I do remember when MTV played music videos. I was a youngen but I still remember when they premeired the THRILLER VIDEO! I miss the old MTV!!

As far as the girls gone wild bus goes. Eh, those videos are poop. Boobs are nice, but those videos don't do it for me. I found it funny though, that none of the girls get any money for flashing their boobies, yet the guy that came up with the website is worth more than 100 million dollars!! I wish I had THAT IDEA! Makes my little www.findlaysucks.com site look retarded...oh wait...it is....

I have a friend who is convinced both parties are pretty much the same group, working at different angles. I'm not quite that conspiracy minded, but it is really disheartening when so few real person issues are being argued by the so few people in a position to get something done about it.

Actually the little scooter this woman was riding would in fact fit in a truck, it's like a skateboard with a seat and a set of handlebars. I know you can't fit a full size bike in a truck, but there are folding bikes that could, but you'e probably be committed to sleeping in your top bunk if you have one if you want to carry one of those. Even if it's just my rollerblades I'll carry something along with me. Another good reason to get your own truck eventually, and get a nice 102 inch sleeper.

One interesting thing to observe about religious services is that overall they've calmed down a
lot since the development of electronic amplification. A hundred years ago the average sermon
was a great display of shouting and waving of arms, necessitated by the fact that you did not
have a microphone to amplify your voice. Things settled down when you could just speak normally
into a microphone. But this is just an overall tendency, there certainly were quiet sermons then and
loud ones now.

Actually I wouldn't be at all surprised if the OTR trucking was eventually taken over by robotically controlled vehicles. wtih the nasty aggravating city driving left to the monkeys with the big brains that can assess a gazillion variables even though they make occasional mistakes. If this does eventually happen at least I can be glad I got in on the action now.

People do drive stupid for sure, think the worst wreck I have seen is a swift truck came down through the median, hit another truck head on, both of them. Both drivers ejected from thier trucks, trucks burnt to the ground, one died on the scene, the other in the hospital, this was just ouside of spokane. I saw the aftermath. if you think about it, 2 trucks coliding head on at 65 isnt going to be pretty no matter what.

Another I saw that was really bad was about 20 miles east of Oak Grove 70 truck stop in missouri, a van came down through the median and hit the front left corner of a bull rack full of cows. flipped it over, opened up the trailer like a can of sardines, smeared blood all over the road from where the cows hit the pavement, when I rolled by they were out there with a backhoe lifting dead bulls into the back of a dump truck. That was a nasty stinky mess.

I *heart* wafflehouse.

As far as the young hotties go. I am going to repeat to you what a friend of mine once told me. I am not going to tell you whether or not I believe it or not.

"Jeff, one of these days, you are going to just be TOO OLD to hump on hot little 18 year old girls. Think about THAT when you seen that cute young girl that you won't go up and talk to...."

I SWEAR to god that is exactly what he said. I even wrote it down. Again, I can't tell you what I think on that subject exactly.

HOWEVER, I will say that young girls nowadays are CRAZY! So that has to make you at the very least BEWARE!

This could just be the whiskey talking too.....

Ohio HAS to be one of the worst states you drive through...right???

Time off is cool. So do you think you made the right choice regarding which company you joined?