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Behind the Eight Ball
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Monday April 28, 2008
Hello here we are once more in the “Peoples Republic California”, waiting on a load to get us out of here before we get attack by some liberal tree huger for us idling are tuck. All thou I really don’t think any one here cares about any one who is idling, oh well we are going to hook to IdleAire soon just not too soon. Why? Because are company is cutting back and cutting back on everything so they cut us back to just ten hours on IdleAire, witch works out great if you are just taking a your ten hour break, how -ever we are going to be laid over for more than that. They knew Friday that this load had an appointment for Sunday that been change to Monday morning, so there should have been a load ready to go. No such luck.. Oh wait there a load coming thru now.
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Sunday April 20, 2008
Oh !! please if this was a protest about high gas prices wouldn’t it serve more as a protest to off ones self in front of the main stream media and in front of some major oil company? The facts are you don’t have clue what this ladies reason was for doing this, So who do we blame now? The oil company’s? the gun manufactures? The police? No the police were just doing there job. Hay I know lets’ blame her and hold her to account for her actions, it’s called “Personal Responsibility”. Has for the oil prices most of you liberals have no concept of supply and demand and that the federal reserve in some of it’s actions has devalued the dollars cussing higher oil prices or the fact the oil is traded on the open market, or the fact that you pay more in taxes than the oil company is makes off a gallon of gas.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080415_12_PONCA42140&allcom=1#commentform
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With fuel prices climbing all most every other day, most trucking company’s are telling there drivers not to idle there trucks, or if you idle you will be penalized when the idling percentage reaches a idling preset, and then the trucks computer kicks your speed back two or three miles per hour, Ok fine! But have you been in a truck stop lately? Not every one is going to shut there truck off and the smell is really some thing you don’t want to think about but resembles something of an out house. So what dose that mean? if you don’t have an APU and you cant get idle-air site, here at the end of your day and if you work days that means you are more than likely parked in a already over crowded paring lot and its hot and the guy next to you is idling and there very little breeze blowing so now not only are you now getting the heat off your truck and your getting the heat from the your new now noise Neighbor. So you go get a shower and that’s helps for a wile and wile you are doing that your truck has cooled down some what However here at the end of the day it won’t really start cooling down late evening. You can not honestly be getting some good comfortable rest for that long day ahead. Is this wise and is this Safe? I say NO it is nether! It is not Safe and we should never ever comprise on safety, there are all ready to many tired drivers out there on the road pressing pick up‘s and delivery appointments. And now some states are getting on the no idling band wagon like California where they are going to fine driver if they idle, and if you talk to local law enforcement they don’t care about your idling when you are private property nor do they have the manpower to enforce such laws. So you do what you can and you park far away from every one as you can and you do you best to plan you trip you stay in route and you try to end up some where that an idle-air or a nice open area, but in the end you are still left feeling disenfranchised.
“Comprising on Safety is never a good idea and will most likely to end in the of failure and man and machine”.
Driver…
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Friday April 11, 2008
A major roll for Al Gore as Secretary of EPA or a new cabinet level position as Secretary of “Global Warming Enforcement and Carbon Credits Control & Propaganda ”or some politically correct title that I just cant think of.The whole global warming Thing is a load of bunk!
Oh yea we are all on our way into that fiery pit in hell just Left of the fifth ring. I know this because Ted Tuner says it to be so, according to good old Ted in just a few short thirty to forty years, we all will cannibals, after global warming and the lib’s have there way with us. Yea we will be rounding people up and shoving them into cattle car and hauling them off and then throwing them into these great big ovens, Not to incinerate mind you but bake slowly at 350 degrees until golden brown. As for me I'm not too sure what kind of person is going to taste good, I never was in line for Jeffery Doumer school of culinary art’s. So I am just stabbing at if you will forgive the pun. Any way who taste the best A meat and potatoes person or strait vegetarian or some one who eats cake and donuts all day long? Any way the fat people will be lining up relay fast in out in front of Jenny Craig, so try to stay out of the or at least some distance with some thing of hi power and cross hairs. As for me I’m going low tech yep I’m using some string and donut, guess you witch one I’m going after. So what a few extra calories any way as cannibals we will care not.
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