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Woo Hoo!

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Celebrating New Year’s alone with two corn dogs, one apple and a bottle of cranberry juice. Any more excitement and I’ll spontaneously combust!

Uh huh, yeah. Going BACK to [...]

Happy New Year (yawn)

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Spending New Year’s at a truckstop in Michigan. As usual. Most times I’ve spent the holiday on the road. It’s always a choice between Christmas and New Year’s and thats a no-brainer for me. New Year’s was fun when I lived in Hawaii. Real fireworks and a party atmosphere for everyone, not just adults drinking themselves [...]

Cell Blogging Test…

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Been a few days of hard driving after lazing around with no load all weekend. Picking up an overdimensional load going to WI that I only have to get as far as IL and then its home to see Terry. I’m very ready for that.

Trying to learn how to “thumb type” on the the bitty little [...]

Fun With Over-sized Truck Loads

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(Alternate Title: Everything you ever wanted to know about over dimensional freight permits on the interstate highway system but didn’t really give a shit about anyways because you’re just humoring the truck driving asshole! Ponderous title, dude!)

What a day today! I’m hauling an oversize and overweight load from Illinois to West Virginia and getting permits for [...]

Lost Weekend

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Dropped one load, picked up another: A wheel loader going to the Dundalk terminal in Baltimore. For some reason I can’t deliver til Wednesday (don’t know why) so I got a long time to get where I’m going. I figure I’ll just stop here in CO and sit out Saturday, getting a 34 hour break in [...]

Blowout!

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200 miles after getting all 8 drive tires replaced, I experienced what felt like a grenade going off under my truck. After pulling over, removing the upholstery from my sphincter, and going to look, I discovered this:

Nice! After waiting 2 and a half hours it was replaced and I was sent on my way. Ended up [...]

Tires

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Got my load this morning and came to the shop in Gary to get a mudflap replaced and my tires looked at. They ended replacing all eight drive tires and took enough time doing it that I have no more time to run tonight. Down for the night in the shop yard and will head out [...]

Back To Work, Slave!

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Tonight, I’m in Michigan. In the AM I’ll pickup a railroad load going to Colorado. Probably shouldn’t go into details, I’ve been endeavoring to keep work and my blog separate (“You gotta keep ‘em separated!“).

Today was a leisurely drive through Indiana and Michigan, it was a nice day with good weather. Tomorrow will bring the start [...]

Busy Weekend at Home

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Saturday we went out to wander around downtown Evansville a bit. I was hoping for a little bit of goings-on but the place was nearly deserted. A couple of restaurants where open but that was about it. With the nearby Frog Follies going on I figured and old car or two might show up, but no [...]

New Digital Digs

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Got a new laptop to replace the aging Toshiba I had before. I’m now dealing with Windows Vista on the new machine after years of using XP. It seems I have the horsepower to run Vista reliably and so far its been good. I think I’ll take the old one and slap Ubuntu Linux on it, [...]