Don't taze me bro'

ahh, the new tagline for the decade, I've been waiting anxious for that to show up. Sure sounds more hip than can't we all just get along? I've heard the audio for days now, but I just saw the video. It was funnier in my head, kinda like reading a book vs. watching a movie.

Back to the road. I'm in Charlotte right now, getting ready to head out to Ohio. I have moved off the "newbie" dispatch board, and have moved up to the normal board. Pay raise to follow in a month or so. That's good news.

I've made my way through Seville OH, and got my winter training out of the way. That's a mandatory classroom and road evaluation we all have to do every spring and fall. Drove to Philly, and dropped a trailer, which led me to North Carolina, and back to Ohio. I like Ohio, it's growing on me, lots of wide open spaces, and very few low bridges!

Well, my satellite is beeping at me, back to work... more to follow later.

Back on the Road

Sept 16, 2007

I’ve been working my way west since I left on the 14th. I’ve moved paper to Mass, and Tissues to Ohio, I am beginning to notice a theme here! Pretty uneventful stuff really, except that I’m losing my muffler. Now, a car can sound bad when the baffles fall out of it’s muffler, but this thing brings on a whole new meaning to LOUD, especially when using the engine brake, I can be heard for miles coming to a stop with that thing on!

I have requested that my next stop take me through an operating center to get that looked at. I mean Jeesh, I can’t even hear my Barry Manilow tapes over that noise!

(Laugh track here…)

Never wanting to be one to buck pop culture, I have a new companion along for the ride. Friends were “kind” enough to give me a ceramic gnome to accompany me in my travels. You know, like a gnome that roams…or something like that. If he doesn't wander off at some truck stop, or get caught under my wheels, he may have a good time.

Well, it’s off to watch a little TV, and enjoy a little down time. I don’t get unloaded until tomorrow morning, so I can hang out for a while in nowhere, oops I mean Alvada OH.

Amarillo by Morning

Howdy from Plainsville TX.

Just a quick update today. I woke up this morning in Utah, and drove 600+ miles to TX to drop a trailer. Hopefully my next load will take me home, but I kinda doubt it.

Anyhoo, for those of you who don't know, today is the first day Mexican nationals can legally drive commercial vehicles into the states to make deliveries. Yes Mexican licensed trucks and drivers can now cross the border and run in the States.

A Feb. article, today Sept. 1, the trucks started rolling across the border.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54411

No I do not think this is a good idea, especially letting them drive hazardous material loads. Having spent some time in Laredo TX, which is on the Mexican border, and having ridden in a Mexican cab some years ago, the idea of these guys on American interstates scares me half to death.

Thank the President and the Senate for this one. The House tried to block it, with no success.

Putting Mexican trucks on American interstates on Labor Day weekend?? Sounds like a big bad accident waiting to happen.

Sorry for the rant, I think this is a really bad idea, especially with me sitting here in Texas.