Series 60 Detroit. It has minor leaks that drive me crazy. They wash off and it looks good for a while but I learned it ain't for nothing drivers sometimes call them driptroits. That's the only thing I miss about my C15 it didn't leak at all.
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I wanted to go to the beach in Michigan today but we all overslept and it was too late. I started playing with Convoy and they awarded me the water load which will take me the rest of the day. They have had some more water for tomorrow, and I have plenty hours available but I want to go to the beach. I don't really treat it as a business....Brettj3876, PPDCT, Opus and 2 others Thank this. -
For whatever reasons water loads have been paying really well here in the west for the last 4 months. Probably because we're in a drought and people are buying bottled water like crazy. One of my contract clients asked me if I could get to Denver to bring a load back to NorCal for him, and after some schedule rearranging I could. Hopped on Convoy to find a load to Denver, and sure enough there was a water load delivering on the same day I needed to pick up the other load paying $4.71 per mile on 1242 miles. Next week will be a good one.
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BTW: I got stiffed on the yesterday's water load, they did not have the product available and they thought that they could me keep there in a limbo mode forever. I left unloaded after close to 4 hours of waiting and my numerous attempts to communicate the issue to the broker and the plant and when it was clear that my appointment to Walmart DC was not going to be met, I told them to unhook me, I was not going to risk delivery complications and potential rescheduling. It was a business decision.mp4694330, Lostkeys, Midwest Trucker and 3 others Thank this. -
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So now I am down to 3.07...PPDCT and Midwest Trucker Thank this. -
They call my home the nation's bread basket because so much food is grown here, but at what cost? Every river has been dammed and diverted, and we grow not just food for the US but for the world. When we have dry years such as this one, the people who use the water in their homes pay the price while most of the big growers keep on taking their usual amount with little change because they pay off the politicians. We humans are such simple minded creatures. To us everything is in terms of our short life spans. So we look at one or two dry years as a disaster because it's never happened in the last 100 years. There have been prehistoric droughts in the western US that lasted 100 to 200 years. I wonder how we would handle that? -
I think that Chicago area has undepletable water supply but there are still some regulatory ordinances that limit water usage for things like lawn and gardening.dwells40 and SteveScott Thank this. -
Right now my water district has us on a 25% reduction in our total ditch water allowance and we're lucky it's not more. That means the guy that leases my rice ground planted 20 % less rice this year and used my own wells to pick up the slack. My wells are PG&E metered and it's expensive to use for the volume needed for rice,.
My water allocation for almonds is down 30% but I use a low volume drip irrigation that is a lot more efficient than flooding or sprinklers. The drip system went in last year and if the prices stay up I should see a net decrease in my water costs in about four more years.
Here's a shot of Lake Oroville. Most of my ditch water comes from there. Or used to, anyway. When the lake is full the water is up to the tree line.
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