The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Here out east they use salt and salt brine/liquid calcium cholorite (or however it's spelled) it does work although it takes a minute to activate, but it makes everything an absolute pig stye mess and it rusts the living beejesus out of cars and trucks. I just washed my old Ford today to get all the road crap off of it, I have a 1995 Ford F-150 that spent it's whole life in California and now it's here in Ohio and I've had to really keep on top of washing the salt off of it. I've never seen ODOT or the cities use anything else, but good old fashioned road salt that rusts cars away into nothing and makes fantastic messes: (The liquid salt brine ODOT puts down when it's warm enough or it might be liquid calcium cholorite treatment is just the end of the line for cars if you have a car that's got some rust, 1-2 winters is all you have left that stuff will just eat the cars alive and your a gonner. All of our mid-1990's Ford trucks now out here in Ohio there all gone, there's a few hanfulls left, but most are gone, they all have been rusted away into a pyle of ash. Even the 1997-2003 Ford trucks Ranger-F-350 all of them now all shot and 75% of them rusted away.)

 

Yeah I have heard from quite a few people now about how brutal the anti icing chemicals used back east for the roads are on vehicles back there, explains why people into collecting classic cars are so hell bent on finding cars that spent their life on the west coast or south west, the cars are not rust buckets lol.

 

A lot of people around here if they have a collector car they just store them in a garage all winter long there's nothing that they can do, our roads are beat up and bannged up as well, lots of pot holes and stuff and the winter time is just that much harder on the roads.

 

A winter beater car is a thing around here. Mine's a 2002 Ford Explorer. FORD in the rust belt = Flakes Of Rust Dropping. Strangely enough, not all cars dissolve as quickly. Japanese, Korean and American are the worst. The Swedish (SAAB, Volvo) are the best, followed very closely by the Germans. Audi in particular is desirable because of largely aluminum construction. Of course, neglect will destroy anything, but with reasonable washing, it seems to work out this way.

Sorry, bored at my layover, waiting for my return-to-base load to be ready so I can try to make 180 miles in 2 hours. Ha! Going to need a rescue since I'm at 57.5 hours out of my 60.

 

Thanks for the education, Mack! I've never seen one of those before. Still thinking the standard reefer would be a safer, if not better way to go.

 

Forgot my truck keys a few nights ago and had to go to the shop to get a new one. He cut it so that one side is for our Freightliners and the other is for the Volvos. That's pretty sweet.

 

That's great. Kind of surprised that they will take the same key blank though.

 

I had to go to the hardware store a couple weeks ago and get a set of keys made Volvo and International because I had previously locked my self out of one of our Internationals. So I know all about keys.