Profile For Stevo Reno

Totally up to you which you'd prefer to drive. I , myself did the auto since I only was driving 3 threes, until retirement. I can drive anything out there, and have driven manuals in all types of vehicles. Hell, @ 15 1/2 took my DMV drivers test in my 10th grade girlfriends 1966 VW beetle.....Which I barely passed lol because the tester didn't like my speed shifting up & down.

But I digress, I did NOT want to be driving a manual big rig, and having all that extra to deal with. The auto tractor was great, and fun to drive, besides my training company had an all auto fleet. Besides the auto's can be driven as a manual to some extent, with downshifting the lever, plus using the jake brakes as needed.

And most big companies use auto's anyways. The U.S. has pretty much eliminated manuals in pick ups and automobiles. Here in the Philippines, ALL the taxi's are Toyota Vios w/5 speeds (Toyota Corolla in USA)

Seems to me he was "distracting" you on purpose, as a test, how you'd handle it, even as small as it were. In school, IS 1 big test on it's own. There's plenty of ways to test you without you realizing it. Just concentrate on what YOU'RE doing behind the wheel, ignore the chatting etc.....Yes, YOU messed up, it happens, and you need to learn from it, so it don't happen again. Keep your head on a swivel, and check your mirrors every few seconds, to avoid scraping/hitting something, you're nearing the finish line of training where ever you're doing it at.

Good Luck, and suck it up buttercup, own everything YOU do out there.

Thanks Zen !

and NO James, the college system here is very good, and cheaper than the US by far lol We have a Bull we bought to resell years later towards their college fund. Her father cares for it at there place 5-6 miles away on their mountain province.

As soon as I get my budget rebuilt, after I return after 28 days back home (have to exit after 36 months). I'll be buying piglets again, maybe 6 this time the grow n sell for the pigpen I had built at her parents 2nd house by the road. They like doing it and I help them by sharing part of the profits after the sale of those pigs. It's a win-win for all hahaha. I got lucky, my new wife, nor her family are asking for money from the "rich Kano"

I help them out when I feel they really need a little help, which isn't too often, they are hard working farmers and have plenty to farm to live off of.

Typo: our cement block septic tank is 12 Feet high/deep not inches ". With a steel handrail & steps down to it. Kids got 2 hammocks, so I hung em down there on the steel beams of the roof they love it ! lol

Ok here's how we get our supply of water. Living in basically the jungle environment atop our mountain. There's a small river about 300+ yards away, our house I had built is on a hillside.

We have a black plastic irrigation type hose 1" diameter coming from the river, to our house by gravity. Filling 3, 55 gal drums out front by a cement 400+ gal tank we built. Then 1, 55 gal drum in our bathroom (scoop baths) 3 more drums atop our septic 12" cement area where my wife washes clothes in her washer/by hand. We need these drums/tank water for honey to water her flower farm across the road from us, using an electric power washer pump. Which I also bought a gas 1 to pump water from the wells @ the river during summer when water is low to our house (only needed once last summer) and we share our water flow with an auntie across the yard from us for her washing/bathing needs

Since there is no such thing here in the province of plumbed water access/delivery. Typically I take 2 baths a day, sometimes 3 even using the scoops we buy/have and I am used to the sometimes really cold water bathing hahaha. We just don't drink the water, and have a spring also for water to cook with. But we go to a local filling station to fill our sparklets type bottles (10 of em) for drinking

Sure glad the water's FREE from nature, because the cost of water we use here, in the US would cost a fortune!!

Hopefully, you will fix your issue @ your property, as soon as you possibly can, especially since your kids are soooo young right now!!

My arm's over her bro-in-law, her 12 yr old girl, 11 yr old son, my tiny Wifey, and 83 yr old lady, ex co worker from our local "like" town hall

Well, my filipina I've been with here since I got here 3 years ago almost, we finally got thru ALL the required hoops here, for a foreigner to marry a native!! It's been kind of a PITA, getting everything in order with paperwork OMG! And plenty of trips into the city, things do always go smooth and quick hahaha. Even the government offices can be inefficient to say the least! Got bounced around lately between mayors office and the court (for civil wedding) So now, tomorrow on 5/28 (also 1 yr anniv of her bro's death) we are going today to the Mayors office and get hitched before I have to exit the country. Rule is a max of 3 years here, then you have to leave for a day or so, return and start the tourist visa process over for 3. I decided best to go home to Cali, sell my honda civic and hopefully most/all of my vast amount of tools. Will bring a few back with me here that I could use, I'm sure my buddy back home will have a few cars to fix and or sell for him as he is nearing retirement soon, as has too many damn vehicles!! lol

So going home for 28 days, as a married man after 37 years being divorced. I always said I will never remarry, unless it's for life, or just die a single guy like my biological "dad" I have to say filipinas do make great wives, they are more traditional and family oriented than so many in the US. And take very good care of you as long as you treat them right, and not ALL are just out for your money hahaha. That's why I had in my head to find a province woman, not a city 1, as they have been corrupted by western society more and more. My girl has her flower farm across the road from our house I built us 2.5 years ago. She works hard at it, and keeps the house, me, and her 2 pre teen kids in good shape.

I knew I could handle and like this province life, away from the big city living the native lifestyle. our water comes from a nearby small river about 100 yards away. I've helped her boost her flower farm size and we use a butt load of water, lucky it's free! Andmy Soc Sec goes a long way here, where at home I couldn't afford a shed shack on it hahaha

So anyways, enough rambling, I will return later today as a married old dude today hahaha Next will be to get a spousal visa, where I won't need to go every 2 months to immigration to extend, that's like $50, or pay an exit tax if ever leaving again and can actually work or go to school (not!) It will save me a lot of money each year !! Yeah kinda goofy after you spend so much here, then when you leave even from vacation here, you have to pay an exit fee/airport tax !! Since I been here over 1 year I need exit clearance another $50 ! they check to make sure I'm not leaving to avoid legal issues here etc pfffft money money money hahahaha

Ok Peace & Love amigo's Be safe, be healthy, and "Git 'r Dun" lol

Good story Nick ! I was kinda like that too, except followed step dad who raised me from 18 months old, as a lifetime mechanic. I started out on trash truck diesels for Waste Management, in L.A. County(Baldwin Park) Step dad worked there too by then, I left a job in a huge plating company in the auto polishing dept for 7 years. Fed up I walked off n quit 1 day, and 2 days later took the mechanic job. My step dad did lot of other things between, side gigs. Back in the early 70's he drove tour buses for his mom's boyfriend out of Gardena. And he also worked on the buses, as needed.

He actually took a tour to a game show with Bob Barker, where he saw Sirhan Sirhan 2 rows down, 2 days prior to shooting Kennedy.(recognized him from the tv news) So I worked on Cummins, IH, a few detroits, and Cat's, certified Cummins engines. While I did a stint working on Pepsi tractors, and having to move em around the yard (cab overs) I repaired everything on em front to back aside from in frame over hauls @ both jobs WM/Pepsi....

Moved to BHC Arizona in 1990 with a girlfriend, my 2 kids, her son. Wasn't any diesel jobs around besides Laidlaws @ a trash place. But they told me their max pay was $9 an hour HAHAHA like I'm gunna go from $20+ to 9? not! So local Ford dealer in Needles, Cal wanted a heavy line mechanic, so I got that job and worked on automotives from then on. Got bored with all the drama n crap, so I did a few things on my own at home or mobile mech there and back in Cali. I was burnt out after about 40+ years had thought about trucking and more so after finding this site. Life just got in my way and delayed me pulling the trigger.

My dad passed in 1997, mom lasted til 2012, so I finally got to the point to jump in trucking with both feet and just go for it. Knowing with my mechanic background the pre trips and all that was easy peasy to pass and do. I went to get trained for a mega too on my moms birthday in 9/9/2019. Once I got into it and was out there training OTR and slowly built up my income driving with my starter company in 22 months I went to another place for 4 months until my early retirement at 62.

I wished I had just got into trucking even a few years prior, as I really actually made more money driving a truck, than I EVER made turning wrenches!!

Not to do with trailers, but I had bought a used car from a dealer in the '90's. I had 3 year loan payment, which usually I paid early every month. Using snail mail of course, so I'm close to paying it off, with a few months left. I wake up 1 day @ 4 am to give a ride to a room mate to his delivery job. (So Calif)

Well, my car is GONE!! I'm freaking out, I'm totally ****ed off, I called the police, to be told, it was repo'd!! I thought the cops were wrong, they weren't. I had to wait til 9 am for finance company to open, to call em. They "claimed" they never got my last payment, and sent me notice etc, a FAT LIE! I'd never got diddly, until I find my car missing.

In the end, after some back n forth calls, I told 'em they better have my title when I came to claim the car, n pay off my loan, or someone's gunna need a hospital bed lol. Borrowed from my dad in law, paid the repo place n storage of a few hours almost $300 ! Which they'd bent my steering wheel trying to pop the ignition out. I now had new ignition keys. I paid off the note balance,and claimed my title. The ONLY time I ever bought a car from any dealer.. and why I've always bought anything else in cash !

Turns out the landlords 2 small brats, playing in the 3 mail boxes at the fence, must've lost my payment, they never got.

Sounds kind'a like what this trailer place is doing to you, trying to double dip leasing the trailer out....Hopefully, you can get this fixed and win your case, and make THEM pay out the $$$!!

Totally correct Old School, just like my starter company (ya'll know who) lol @ 6 months experience, they were trying to get driver "trainers". I was asked to do it by then, a few times, my reply, "NOPE !" NEVER

Besides with my 1st 2 co-drivers, with the same experience, wouldn't listen to any advice, or help I tried giving them when they really needed it. Why? oh because they "thought" they knew it all, already hahaha.