Profile For Stevo Reno

Since I started watching my food eaten, I checked, and I've dropped over 4 inches in my waist lol @ a 36" from a 40"+......Ain't been that waist size since my mid-30's....Honey's cookin' some more fresh fish right now, she loves her fish too

Yesterdays party foods for daughters 12th birthday...top left, squid, pig belly center, cordon blu chicken, whole shrimps, under sketti chicken wings....Parrot fish pic to follow. THAT was a damn yummy fish too!

Errol, that's been going on for years, especially @ U-Haul dealers. When I worked for an auto shop in Hesperia,Cal., we also were the #1 U Haul dealer, in the high desert....Regularly got hit for lots of fuel, they'd cut the filler neck hose usually. I had to repair so many theft damages I lost count. Even as far as doing roadside repairs, or at other dealers in the high desert....We stocked the filler hoses in bulk for each model trucks, since it was happening so often.

The 10ft van box trucks, have plastic tanks. So they'd drill holes in it to drain the fuel. I had a plastic "welder", I'd plug the hole, get fuel, take to our shop, and repair the holes....The 26 ft trucks were the easiest with the tanks right there in the open. Newer 26 footers got even easier with the 2 plastic vent valves, they'd pop out and suck the fuel. Got to the point batteries wee being stolen, up to whole trucks!!...........

They tried to steal 4 of our trucks on our lot, got the junky 14 foot "in town" truck we were assigned.....3-4 , of the 17 foot trucks were stolen, stripped and dumped in the desert a few times. Tires n wheels all gone wiring harnesses cut out, was crazy days.

Higher the gas prices went, so did the thefts of the gas.

I too did that myself, pretty much spent most free time in the truck, if not near "home".... I had a 29 ft 5th wheel in my buds back corner of his 2 acre yard and a shed for all my tools and stuff. Had sold off my VW beetle, and 69 VW bus, my silverado, and my cycle. Was down to a 1994 Honda civic sport I usually parked at our terminal, with my 1st company doing teams 22 months.

So I gave my buddy $600 a month for my spot, and was off grid so no use of his utilities lol. I sold the 5th wheel to get that gone, left my shed with my stuff there....After a 5 month break, I took a job driving solo for the last 4 months til my early retirement in 3/22.....With the 2nd company I was able to save over $20+k for my start here in the Philippines....So yes living in your truck as much as possible can save you a LOT of cash for other things.

When I was passing thru, or had a few days off, I'd just park outside my buds yard, and sleep in the nice cozy truck.....YOU CAN DEW IT lol

We had a customer we delivered to in the midwest, they had day cabs all with discs front and rear. I said dayyum wish we had those lol. Back in the late 80's at WM the newer Volvo white trash trucks all came with em too... A LOT easier to work on and faster (if ya wasn't a time clock waster) 1/2 our night shift were lazy. They'd take hours n hours to do a couple brakes on 1 truck.

I showed our boss, I could do 1 wheel in under 30 minutes. From finding the truck, drive to shop, and do the work, park the truck & clock out the repair order...We had a pallet full of brake pads on hand... Of course if the rotors were trashed, it'd take a bit longer, but not 8 hours per 2 wheels...Saturdays, were brake day, roll under each truck in the rows(120+) adjust, and write up bad brakes. Then spend the rest of the day knocking em out...

Yep, 1 thing I hate is a thief!....Worked with a guy @ WM back in the 80's he was like 6'4" big guy, really mellow and cool. He liked them older 70's cadillacs. Ya know how heavy them doors are, well, he heard a noise outside his pad 1 night. Looks out, see's a guy on his knees under the dash, trying to hot wire his car.....So he said he snuck out, came up behind the guy, yanked him by the collar, and slammed the door on his head. Knocked him out, called and waited for the cops to come arrest him...

3 months ain't quite enough experience to be job hopping, especially with the trucking industry how it is right now. Give it a year, where you are, things could improve there as you gain MORE experience. Won't look as bad to another company after you have a year under your belt.....Consider yourself lucky, you have a job right now, since many companies, have closed up, and 1000's of drivers suddenly lost their jobs. And are having a hard time landing another driving job.

WOW !! Just WOW !! Midn8t, Don't think I've ever read someone posting here on SOOO many issues.....Jeeze, sounds like ya best to forget trucking, and find something you can work at all by yourself, and your poor sounding health....As others had posted, recently, the best "encouragement" given is just do something else and QUIT....

WEI probably wishes the same, I'm thinkin' your days with them may be numbered, and limited. There's a LOT of better prospects out there, and with experience.

Unless, this is just 1 of those good old fake rants, by Todd, the Infamous, troll... hahaha.

Since a kid, I hated veggies didn't eat too many if I could get away with it...Back then was no such thing as salma nella poisoning lol mom always cut up the chicken. She liked her steak dang near raw, 1 minute+ each side, serve it up. She'd even eat some of the raw ground beef as she was going to make meatballs etc.

I too have ate raw hamburger, and like my steaks, and burgers medium to rare, just no blood pool on my plate, like mom liked it. I'd ask for medium rare at In & Out Burgers in Cali, but they won't do that....Yeah and we drank water from the hose and all that stuff, never getting sick from it.

Me and my buddy & his wife used to go to this '50s style diner in Victorville, Ca. for their steak dinners. The cook did it outside in a smoker / bar-b-que. He knew how I liked my steaks, since we'd been going there so long.****il their prices started getting too high) 1 night we go there, I decide to change it up and ask for my steak to be "Medium Well" When he got the order, he came to our table to verify with me if it was correct, with a look of surprise lol. Yessir ! I'm trying something different..

Yep, I'm a definite meat eater, and won't ever be a veggie mite...Shopping day, so gonna get my beef fix, when I can (it's imported from Australia about $4.50 a lb)

Made me remember, when I first got out with my trainer, a nice guy from India, a L/O with CRST.... I was driving at night someplace out in the north east area, well, I missed my freeway change over. I got off, backtracked over 12 dang miles, until I could exit, and go back to the right highway change.

So yeah I wasted 25+ miles and some of his fuel lol. Later, when I told him my error, he got a little irritated with me. I said "Hey bro, I'm new at this, and never been out here. At least I fixed my mistake, without waking you up to help me" He agreed it was ok. you'll learn