Where is everyone #5

Good morning from Bama.

 

Good to see u again sir.. Hope all works out for you. I remeber u saying before .u rather wrench on equipment, more then trucks. so they must a tempted you with something great !

 

Sorry for your loss, Redbeard.

Your friend, if he had dark hair, looks like my old police sergeant. Sarge was a major prick. Really mean. Hostile. If he didn’t speak to me, that was a good day. But he was fair, wouldn’t ever throw anyone under a bus and would stand against his superiors when they tried to throw you under a bus. I have to respect that. Everyone above him was a snake. I learned from him that antisocials are immune to snakes. Apparently, he learned on the job too.

A friend of mine died Jan19. Company sent out a memo that the viewing (that’s another one of those things I don’t get) and funeral will be on Feb17. A whole month? I always thought that funerals were done a week or so after death. Hope this doesn’t turn into one of those Ted Williams things.

 

I put a new water temp gauge in the old Kenworth yesterday (no, I'm not "starting the restoration"). Plugged it in while I was doing it and lit 'er off when I was done. Vrooooom. Something to be said for old no electronics all mechanical stuff. As long as there's enough oomph to turn the starter....

 

I had to free up a few injectors on a 2 stroke 8V92T from setting over 10 years. Flushed the heads and primed with fresh fuel, filled the filter up, and it rolled over 3 times and sounded like you drove it yesterday. The mechanicals are hard to beat in that aspect…..

 

Have Firestones because Michelin wasn’t available.

 

Sorry for your loss Jim.

 

Getting some business cards made up this week. We've been talking about doing it for a while but finally getting around to it. Hitting up all the local places around town.

We were doing a shuttle, DC to DC, same companies on both ends. The broker lost the account. (again), this is the 2nd time they lost it, we didn't do it for a long time before they got it again) I got shafted on MLK day and not a soul was in the parking lot at 1am except for the dude in the guard shack. I got one of the higher ups # from the guard. I'd love to snatch this up, some weeks they get 2 loads a day but usually 4-6 loads a week. The higher up I talked to apologized that I went down and nobody was there. No communication from the broker once again. He's the one that said this broker won't be doing this anymore.

Throw on the extra 25-30 percent that the broker is making and you can run that without having to worry about getting something back and if you do that's a bonus

 

LMAO…!!!!! It’s about as down to earth as you will find….