What if it Snows?

Gotta love hard core drinkers. My old local watering hole has a full parking lot. Thats the kind of dedication needed in employees during a little bit of inclement weather.

 

Good looking horses. Looks like they're well fed.

 

I haven’t bothered. Its burning all fluids. History is unknown and everything is original. Its past it’s time. I don’t want to spend half of a new engine in trying to get this one along. As far as parts for current one, haven’t checked since the rebuilder had (well, at the time) all parts available for new one.

New engine was ready to be built this week but Detroit is behind in shipping rebuild kits so thats what we are waiting on. No idea on date yet. I’m pretty pissed that they got paid in full and dropped this on me. It’s a reputable builder with a dumb salesman IMO.

 

Ask anyone who has worked in the modern oilfield how ridiculous safety protocol is. Trying to prevent all the accidents that never happened. You cant engineer stupid out of people. They will still get hurt regardless. Injuries were few and far between the entire time I was out there. Even when we ran a little reckless. So what are they trying to prevent??

Joey
Most companies are trying to prevent the 50+ million dollar lawsuits just to get freight moved on down the road when they can just wait a day or two and move it.

Back in the day we didn’t have the ambulance chasing lawyers looking for someone that spun out across a median and hit a truck going the other way, minding his own business doing his job. But wait he shouldn’t have been on the road and my client who lost control and hit him.

This is just my opinion and what the company I work for does now a days.

 

I find it hard to determine who has screwed up more companies worse, the parasitic lawyers or the accountants of the insurance companies following the lead of said parasitic lawyers.

 

Thats freight. I discussed oilfield. I was a manager for a subsidiary of Halliburton. I got beat over the head with company wide protocols and every accident that happened in the US. Accidents were low. Protocols made some jobs less safe in the name of safety. I worked some questionable outfits and we just didn’t have any issues. The customers hired these young never worked in the field before college educated tards who were so weak that the industry they accepted a job in scared them. So they just had to act immediately to save us all from certain death. Then the service companies had to change policy to get work. Then they also hired these weak minded dumb dumbs are today you have what you have. Weakness.

And the bottom line is keeping those stupid accident rating numbers low. Can’t remember the acronym’s.

I do agree with the lawsuits you mentioned. Man we could beat that into the ground for multiple hours LOL. That's another debilitating weakness in this country. A BIG one