Where is everyone #5

Why heck, I was 59 before I broke down and got one...

 

Any day. I'm not built for this crap. I'm trying to get a new lane figured out because I was offered some steady loads.

Edit: might have to actually get my a/c fixed before summer if I gotta do more of this. I was the only guy on the road with my windows down and arm out.

 

We had rotary phones in the house when I was growing up. I asked mom one day why we didn't get a push button phone like my friend had. She said there wasn't no need, what we had worked just fine.

Oh, and we were on a party line too, that was fun at times.

 

Sounds like a trucker to me.

 

Well I'm trying, but not impressed. Zephyr buffing wheels. So far 5 out of 10. I am learning, and these were outside rims. But I did a 4 step sanding, 3 step buff and hand polish.
People who do this daily are worth every dollar. Side note 40 miles away they will do them 45.00 a wheel. I have to drive there, unload them, drink coffee, reload them. I've waisted money doing one myself. Not very happy with it. Now might work better on my wheels or trailers which dont need sanded. But they are for the BIG Smurf.

Not much better than 0000 steel wool and a good hand polish.

 

@Lysdexis sweet KW. That's the look I like right there

 

I remember clearly to this day. One of the girls getting off the bus was literally less than a foot from being ran over by some dude who apparently didn't see the bus in front of him stopping and swerved to the right and just barely missed her. The cops got him for a DUI

 

Looks exactly like the stray cat patches we had show when I was probably 7 years old. Fully grown still younger looking but no idea how old. Lived another 16 pretty much outside all the time except at night in the winter. He was a killing machine Lol. Also trained our doberman puppy. The cat basically never left the yard and neither did the dog Lol

 

Polishing ball on a drill and the mothers polish does wonders for the little effort it requires. That said I paid a fella 50 a wheel for those freightliner 24s I had. Worth every penny to let him do it.

Mucho appreciated.

 

(Warning: You have triggered a memory jog)

My memories of those times are slowly returning. I remember Cellular One, and my dumb arse carrying around two pagers, one for work and one for home. The thing that’s puzzling me is why I needed two. Or why I thought I needed two…one for work, one for personal use. The trucking company paid for 1. The thing is, even with pagers, we still had to have the pocket full of quarters and the calling cards.

Back then, I didn’t know of anyone on a leash, NOW it’s actually rare to see a guy that’s not. If you’re chatting with a guy, within 5 minutes, someone will call. If he doesn’t answer, they blow his phone up. “Hang on, Six…gotta take this.”

“Whatcha doin?”

You sir, have been domesticated. You used to be “Wildman,” now, you are Darrel.

Before there were pagers…
When I was a kid, I was part of the volunteer rescue squad. They gave us these big things that was sort of like a pager, but it didn’t show a phone number, it just sounded an alarm. Alarm goes off, you high tail it to the station, grab the truck and go to the accident. It was twice as big as a pager. In the pagers, you’d have to replace the batteries, but this thing sat in a charger. Yep, Motorola. But Motorola also made the little civilian pagers. Heck, Motorola made just about everything in communication big, bombproof and heavy.

You know how you hear these guys talk about the ‘good ol days’? When was this? When I started, trucking was DANGEROUS. You get lost in a metro area at night, have to get out of the truck to use the pay phone and your senses were on pins and needles. Think about it…when Reginald Denny got bricks bounced off his head, that was early 90s. He would have no way of knowing that he was driving through hell.

@MACK E-6 , I have figured it out. I couldn’t understand all the “introvert/extrovert/alpha/beta/gamma/sigma/masculine and feminine energy/passive aggressive “ stuff, because it didn’t exist when I was a kid. I came from law enforcement into trucking and I knew more drivers that got shot and killed than cops. Passive aggressive behavior? Not in those days. Fat driver walking around with Bluetooth headset on and not paying attention to his surroundings? There were no fat drivers and being distracted got you killed.

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