Comments By Joshua J.

Exciting!!!! I'll definitely be following your journey, as for the saving money on food, I highly recommend a trip up to the local big box store and picking up something like a cheap George foreman or an electric kettle, itll let cook a few more things than the microwave and they can go in the truck when youre done with the hotel.

Glad to hear the test results came back and thats out of the way! I was always a little antsy peeing in a cup when I was in the Army, even though I was drug free there was always that little nagging fear that my life could be ruined over something i had no control over (false positives).

Great stuff man, you gonna be throwing your loads over on the flatbed variety thread?

Hope that doesnt delay you too long, wouldnt want the people in your dungeon to starve =p

Makes perfect sense, thank you! Im tracking that they can take other body hair (minus pubic) but they require it to be 1.5" long, or so every testing requirement ive seen says.

My issue, is Im not a hairy guy, and don't have any hair longer than 1", so Ill have to grow my hair out on my head and look a little ridiculous lol. I might try growing out a beard, havent tried since highschool and the Army wasn't conducive to one. Its either that or get labeled a refusal, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.

Get one, use it, we've all seen youtube footage of dashcams and why theyre a god send. That being said, if you fear self incrimination keep a second blank sd card (that has a write protection lock); take said 'locked' card and swap it with the loaded one. So IF anyone got/compelled said dashcam, and ejected the card they'd find the cam recorded nothing because you accidentally left the card lock, oh no darn technology.

Im not advocating tampering with evidence, because if you messed up you should own it, but if its something vindictive/petty a company is doing then you should be able to sling as much dirt as they do.

Whats it like getting use comparators? Im finishing my Engineering degree at the end of april, and I had an entire course dedicated to measuring devices and metrology but we didnt have a comparator.

I embarked on the whole college thing as a way to take my 'vacation' after getting out of the service, I knew I wasnt going to be an engineer but I enjoy learning and tinkering and uncle Sam pays my rent while im doing it.

Now that Ive got my heart set on trucking for the next 5 years, Im sure I wont ever get to use some of those really cool tools;especially some of the PLC Robotics. That said, I don't miss the quality control aspect of it at ALL, I don't know how you kept sane doing it!!! I look forward to hearing more about your upcoming adventures at Roehl, and wouldn't mind getting my ear chatted off about QC/manufacturing/metrology whenever you bring it up.

One quick question though: The FMCSA is supposed to be putting out guidance on hair testing which it hasnt done yet (or is using some form of witch craft to hide it from all of my search queries) that said, did Roehl collect hair samples or Urine? I ask because afghanistan left me bald, and if I gotta hair test I need to start growing out my hair now (and start looking like friar tuck haha)

Ive still got two months and two days before I start school, Im VERY envious.

Sleeping aside, if energy drinks/coffee aren't doing it for you take two weeks off from it. We drink so much caffeine as a country its not even funny, you get desensitized to it and your body builds up quite the tolerance. Give it a week or two of decaf/no caf, low sugar beverages and after that a cup of coffee will crank you up to 11.

UnderArmor (or any similar material) underwear and moisture wicking tops do an OUTSTANDING job of preventing chafing . I relied on UA almost exclusively downrange for all my undergarment needs, it kept me cool, kept me from chafing on 20km foot patrols, its low friction, antimicrobial, and it pretty much helps prevent favorable conditions for all the things that could go wrong downstairs.

That, and goldbond powder, someone mention the monkey butt stuff we had a lot of guys use it in my squad it works very well, but im quite happy with (yellow) gold bond powder, just one WARNING DO NOT EVER put the blue gold bond down below.