An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

There are times when I yearn for the open road again, and there are times when I thank my lucky stars for being out of all this stuff, stuff that fills me with absolute horror. But then I was never in it. For many years I drove for companies that sorted everything out for themselves, all I did was go where I was told, load, drive and deliver.

But going back to the '70s, a time when I really loved the job, I was loaded from home from a regular customer and then when that was delivered I found my own load and went where I wanted after asking the price because 10% came to me. The worst part of it was standing in a freezing phone box in the middle of Glasgow with a bag full of pennies ringing clearing houses (brokers?) and on the alert to punch button A when the call was answered.

There were no computers, no tablets, no trackers, no smart phones, no even dumb ones either. Standing in that freezing payphone cabin I didn't always realise how lucky I was.

Not sure I want to go back quite that far, but I am sure that I wouldn't allow anyone to organise and interfere with my life such as I see on these pages, But if I was able to skim 50 years off my age but without going back to do so, I reckon I would consider @radioshark's point the best way to go, and shell out a few quid for a cheap one trick phone, and keep all my personal stuff off it. In the meantime I really do feel for @supersnackbar and others so tormented and wish you well in dealing with Big Brother.

 

I wasn’t supposed to tell you, but I know why they want you in Toledo. It so you can buy my dinner on the way back from Toronto tomorrow.

tomorrow is the first time across the Blue Water Bridge with a set of wings in about 5 months. The construction is still going on but somehow we sweet talked them into letting us cross. Possibly shutting the us bound bridge down so we can cross backwards? To be determined.

 

Both bridges are back open with lane restrictions as of 10/23/24.

 

See that wasn’t so bad…

 

BWB update:
As of right now the width restriction has been increased to 15’. The eastbound side in the US is middle lane only. The Canadian side eastbound is wide open (three lanes)