Life On The Road

• Find a post office… -
Some of the most annoying people in the trucking universe are the long-time owner operators who, for whatever reason, are now company drivers. The word “blow-hard” immediately comes to mind. I attended a safety meeting today and over on the side of the room was a 55+ year old driver with a huge beer belly, [...]




• Laredo – had enough of today… -
So I’m here in Laredo. At “our” terminal. It is hot and uncomfortable. Actually it’s just like being in an oven. It is busier than ever. Freight headed everywhere. Going inside the office, I encountered a bunch of “men-children.” Whiny, lazy, young and old, fat and extremely fat, unmotivated, very unprofessional truck drivers. I just [...]




• The Ying and Yang… -
Did you listen to the President’s “speech” tonight? I did. And I have mixed emotions. I opposed the invasion of Iraq after 9/11 and the subsequent ten year inglorious battle to provide uneducated barbarians, who despise our way of life, a taste of both freedom and democracy. If Iraq succeeds on its own, I will [...]




• Aussie Trucking 5 -
Our trucks keep getting bigger and bigger. This is a triple road train, the mainstay of long haul outback transport in Australia for many years. Many now are moving to AB Quads, 4 trailers in total, with a road train pulling a b-double and then bigger again to a BAB Quad, two b-double sets hooked [...]




• Aussie Trucking 4 -
Goodaye all. We do not have a driver shortage here as yet, though some are saying it will happen in the future. I think there are two reasons that may contribute. The first is the level of scrutiny we operate under and the newer, bigger and tougher penalties that it seems the authorities wish to [...]




• Trucks backed up in China – 60 miles! -
This is going to be a much shorter post than normal. I just finished a long day of 624 miles of driving from North Canton OH down to Augusta GA. I pulled into the GA welcome center off I-20 at around 9pm. There are spaces for probably 100 trucks here, but only 2 are parked [...]




• The Congressional Cloud and more… -
For those that are interested in the fuel economy on a 2010 KW T660, I took this photo of how fast I generally run, at what RPM and what the truck computer is calculating the MPG’s at – with about a 45K load on the trailer. As you can see, it’s showing 8.3 MPG. That’s [...]




• Rotten eggs… -
“On Sept. 11, the store, with 80 employees, was one of 250 Burlington outlets nationwide owned by the Milstein family. That morning, recalled Stephen Milstein, the company’s former general manager and vice president, the staff was in the basement when a piece of a plane plunged through the roof, either from American Airlines Flight 11 [...]




• When Johnny comes marching home again… -
When walking into the Subway yesterday at the Bosselman’s in Grand Island NE, my back was in terrible pain, my head burning up and my hands shaking. I felt faint. I managed to go inside to put some cold water on face, then find a place to sit down. I wanted to go back to [...]




• Falling off the wagon… -
There are a few times when I can’t get an internet connection and last night was one of them. I had to work on Windows Live Writer off-line, which is what I use to post to WordPress. Between Denver and Albuquerque, Verizon’s cell and data service is terrible. I don’t care how many red dots [...]

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