Profile For Davy A.

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  • Location:
    Aurora, CO

  • Driving Status:
    Experienced Driver

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  • Joined Us:
    3 years, 9 months ago

Davy A.'s Bio

Old guy. Road race motorcycles, musician, freelance writer, general smart a$$, Happy at Don Hummer Trucking

richard.cranium666@gmail.com

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Posted:  2 days, 6 hours ago

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Please vote today

I don't have much time right now, I've written a few articles that got published in the conservative thinker and a few others.

This was something I typed up the other night. Although I'm conservative, I'm a registered independent. The republican party has many pathetic rinos in it, who I find to be worse than leftists in the fact that at least leftists state their bat**** crazy upfront, while the rinos pretend to be against it, all the while stabbing we the people in the back.

We didn't just vote for Trump...

We voted against the radical left agenda.

We voted against censorship

We voted against ridiculous mask mandates.

We voted against big pharma and a deadly drug called the Vax

We voted against 9 years of you labling us fascists and bigots simply because we disagree with your agenda.

We voted against Marxist indoctrination of our children

We voted against your hatred that was so strong that you endorsed two assassination attempts, imprisonment of political dissidents, corruption, and the daily silencing and abuse you gave your fellow humans who dared to disagree with you.

We voted against your insane inept attempts to to control our lives, our faith, our right to believe, disbelieve, or even be ambivalent to a faith in God as we see fit.

You became the very thing you wanted to prevent. This is always the case with far left or right ideologies. The leftist platform is one of tyranny, intolerance and authoritarianism.

Americans are, in general, a patient and tolerant people but you obviously reached the end of our patience. Many of us, about a third, reject the two party system that became a uniparty. We are the independent, the unaffiliated voter.

Posted:  1 week, 3 days ago

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Driving school

With the size of the freight market having been reduced to a fraction of what it used to be and the rates accordingly and given that this is probably going to be the way it is for years, possibly even decades to come, is it really wise to try to opperate a school on a quantity basis rather than quality or specialized?

I would think that trying to partner with carriers whom don't want the burden of a school or maybe delving into specialized instruction might be more beneficial.

Posted:  1 week, 6 days ago

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Court charge

Due to the stresses of this career, the isolation of long peroids of time on the road, varied sleep schedules and dynamic range of calm and peaceful to extremely stressful that occurs multiple times daily, this is not a career path that works well with bipolar disorder.

Posted:  3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Towing up to truck towing capacity with larger trailer

Gvwr, is the rating. Meaning what it's capable of. As long as you stay under the towing capacity of your truck as well as the allowable gvw of your truck, you're fine.

Posted:  3 weeks, 6 days ago

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What NOT to eat. Nutrition on the road.

Brett, I think we generally agree on most items and I probably eat about 75 percent of your diet.

You mentioned the couch potato and the athlete as an example. I agree that they can all use a steak and eggs meal for fuel. I also agree that they will require different amounts based on their activities. But, and it's not something that your grasping, their genetics will determine how their individual bodies burn the fats, store them, where they store them and how much they synthesize the protien. It will also determine just how much muscle fiber they grow within the context of hypertrophy. The simple fact is that their bodies will process nutrients in different manners and at different rates.

Again, two people doing the same work, same sleep, eating the same foods, the same in all conditions will process foods differently based on their genetics.

It's a technical distinction, but an important one. In general, I concur with you about eating meat and eggs. Breakfast this morning was two eggs over medium and 12 pieces of thick bacon, large glass of milk.

In regards to your assumption of the carbs leading to issues with hypoglycemia, the reactive hypoglycemia is a condition I had since I was a child. Its genetic, i was born with it. The two are unrelated save that if I take in sugar without enough long lasting carbs and protien, my blood sugar will rise slightly to 90 or so and then rapidly fall below the normal range of 70 to 120. It's very easy to keep from happening by eating protien based meals, and staying away from high sugar foods as well as quick burning carbs. Slow burning carbs such as rice and pasta don't adversity effect me. Physical labor and heat can exacerbate the condition as we burn more fuel in those conditions.

Posted:  3 weeks, 6 days ago

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My life as a 25yr old Lease Operator with NO prior experience

Ypu can definitely get hung out to dry on taxes. I'd recommend getting an enrolled agent that has experience with truckers. I'd also recommend you familiarize yourself with LLc formations, vs sole prop, also, I'd get an EIN, set up a business and ultimately het your checks made out to ypur business if you haven't already done so. I don't how prime works, but the carrier I had looked into running as an O/O would have done that.

Right now, all your revenue is going to be counted as income, you'll end up paying not only income tax but owing self employment tax as well. Without having correctly itemized write offs, you have nothing to offset your income.

Also, you'll have no social security contributions, no unemployment insurance, no retirement plan unless your contributing to one as well as no health insurance. Also probably no workers comp.

I don't know if it's possible as an l/p, but in my previous business, I used to pay myself a small salary, I was an employee of my own company, that way I had my benefits, fica, etc all taken care of. I had a payroll service and 15 guys though.

Posted:  4 weeks ago

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Goals for your career

When I began to make the decision to change careers to trucking, there were some far reaching goals that were some of the main reasons I chose trucking.

For decades, I've built and worked on houses that I couldn't afford to purchase in geographic areas I couldn't afford to buy into. Most careers are linked to a geographic area in one way, shape or forum. In new construction for instance, it's usually booming suburbs with bubbled real estate. In manufacturing, it's usually busy areas that are booming as well, in tech, it's high demand areas.

One of the first things I looked at, was that if I was to succeed in this career, I should be able to purchase houses in just about any area as my income would no longer be tied to a specific location. It's one of the underlying reasons of why I enjoy OTR and regional work, the entire country is my zip code. It would open up cheap homes in rural areas that most people can't purchase because there isn't work there.

The next thought down that path was that, slowly over time, I would pick up rentals in specific towns or areas that have certain characteristics. The plan is to diversify and get multiple streams of relatively passive income. No income is truly passive, but there's varying degrees of it.

Ultimately, my over riding long range goal with trucking is to use it to fund my semiretirement plans and be semi retired with it. That may entail purchasing a truck down the road and leasing it on to a carrier if the rates ever come back as well as investments, IRAs and real estate. It's obtainable.

Of course that plan took a backseat to the more pressing ones each step of the way. First it was passing school and getting my CDL, then it was getting through training, then making my first year accident and incident free, so on and so forth.

Just out of curiosity, did/do you have long term plans with trucking? Was it just something you figured you do for a while or was it a tactical and strategic move?

Posted:  4 weeks, 1 day ago

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Towing up to truck towing capacity with larger trailer

Your towing capacity is weigh off. Pun intended. Towing capacity is different than GVWR. It's rated between 13000 and 22000 pounds for newer f250s. My f150 has a tow cap. Of up to 13000.

You need to understand the difference between hauling weight and towing weight.

Posted:  1 month ago

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How would you handle this?

I'd do some troubleshooting on it, see of I could get them fixed, the electrical is pretty basic on a trailer. Then again, I have a lot of tools on board, know how and spares. At least get it to where I could get it to a loves. I'd start with the pigtail socket, 9btimes put of ten thats where the problem is

Posted:  1 month ago

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What NOT to eat. Nutrition on the road.

In regards to the discussion of us being built the same, I would submit that given the evidence that DNA is the building blocks of us, and there are limitless combinations of those building blocks, it would be more accurate to say that we are assembled differently.

In my case, with my metabolism as high as it is, which is a genetic difference, if Brett was to eat my diet, yet both of us were expending the same caloric burn, based on his body type, he would put on weight in the form of fat as well as muscle. In other words, metabolism alone can make a completely different dietary and caloric need. It's undeniable. Protien intake slightly less.

I'd be willing to wager also, that again using us based on the same age and fairly athletic as well as fitness as an example, that if we were to perform the exact same muscle loading tasks, that our muscles would grow at different rates, burn fat at different rates, metabolize the nutrients at different rates, all with the same intake and content of food.

This has been borne out many many times in many studies and real life experiences. Thus the logical conclusion is that we respond to nutrients differently according to our genetics and environmental factors.

In regards to the marathon I mentioned, and motorcycle racing which are both cardio and long endurance muscle loading activities, at one time I did carb loading as many others for a couple nights prior to events. I never had conclusive proof of it benefitting or detracting performance. Hydrating and actually staying away from carbs seemed to help the most because of the reactive hypoglycemia.(a genetic factor).

From what you describe of your eating habits and diet, I actually eat fairly similar to that. Although I'm certainly not as disciplined as I should be and I do eat some carb food such as while grain bread and tortillas. But mostly meat, eggs and milk.

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