Trucking can be like a bad marriage...

Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by ghostchild, Feb 4, 2009.

If you could do it all over again would you...

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    Have stayed with the 1st company you started with?

    14.6%
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    Became a lease or owner operator when you first started?

    14.6%
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    Left the industry long ago?

    15.3%
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    Tranfered into the admin part of trucking?

    5.7%
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    Would change nothing about your trucking career.

    29.3%
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    none of the above..but...

    23.6%
  1. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Hey, it's almost Halloween...

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    What are you going to dress up as?? (do not answer)...(I'm just re-editing some stuff)
     
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  3. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Everyone leave...except one...

    I truly am cyco...so leave me...go away...with my blessings...and let me start over again from scratch....

    I love you...I love you...and that's why I ask you to leave....but know that I love you...

    God get me out of here...that's why my other persona was born...to help me get away from this...

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY0Ag0fMxz8[/ame]
     
  4. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    But I will actually end tonight with those who want to start over...those who want to be fresh....Like Alice....

    What a voice...what a song....

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzBgxeslc4&feature=related[/ame]

    Sometimes ya just gotta leave it all behind....
     
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    Hello from Califonia!!

    I'm headed out of here now...I don't like this particular area I'm in...this whole Sacramento, Stockton, Medesto area..I don't like it...way way to much hostility...

    Like vato type hostility...if your just a regular person, you won't really fit in here...you have to belong to a set...a cultural set or g-set...

    Either that or be rich enough to live above and beyond it...but i guess that's anywhere...

    Anyhow...I'm going it along from here on out...no expectation of anything...

    I erased stuff in the last 4 posts or so...got a bit wild last night...but life goes on, and so do I....

    Later...

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    I'll chime in later tonight...
     
  6. ghostchild

    ghostchild Road Train Member

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    Ok, this is gross, and I knew there was a reason I didn't like this area...

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    I pull up to fuel iland, to clean windows...I smell urine...everywhere...

    I see flys...then I realize (after I used squeegy), that all the window washing tubs were filled with urine smelling water...

    I went inside and brought this up to cashier...and she said 'Yep, it's the drivers who pull up at night and urinate inside window washer tubs'

    She also said they dump their urine bottle content in there too...
    The place smells like a sewer...I'll take a photo and post it now or later...

    It's the truck stop on I-5 mm 319...HTP fuel stop or something...gross...

    And most of the drivers around here are Latino...

    I know, hope, most Hispanics don't think it's OK to urinate at the fuel iland in those window washing tubs...

    Even if they're immigrants, they should know better...

    I just always had more faith in people than that...I mean that's just some 3rd world nastiness....

    Are they not use to toilets??
    There's no excuse for that...none...that's just nastiness....
     
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    The further i get away from this central valley area, the safer I feel....
    The whole time I was there, I didn't feel right...something felt off...

    it's an area that is almost 100% dependant on immigrant labour...to harvest and work all the groves and farms...

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    Americans won't really do it anymore...and so the area rely's heavily on immigrant labour...decades and decades of migrant workers has really changed the culture and feel of the Valley....

    It's not friendly like it use to be...I mean this use to be the 'all American' area of California...the heart of small town American culture...it's where George Lucases 'American Grafitti' supposedly took place...

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    You know...Hot dog and hamburger joints, where young American kids would go to hang out on Friday and Saturday night...drag racing up and down the strip....

    Making out in back of car seats...stuff like that....

    Fast forward to today, and it seems all the "white working class'...(not middle class but working class) have all been driven away...replaced by second and third generation Hispanics, and by new ones arriving daily...which has totally changed the culture and feel of the area...

    And now you have violent street gangs, with ties to Mexico and or Argentina and other S American nations...

    The people coming here, have loyalties down there still...
    And are not in a hurry to cator to other people or cultures, where they are the majority...

    Many of the gangs have embraced very racist philosophies towards both whites and blacks...and these gangs have influence all throughout their communities...from the bottom on up...

    Everything begins and ends on the streets....

    And none of the drivers talk to each other on the radio at all...The Central valley is the quietest I've ever heard it on the radio...no communication at all...

    And just 10 years ago or so, that same area was very lively with truck driver chatter...very much so...but now it seems that energy has all but gone...

    The black population is also very much in decline there...as is the white populations...

    http://media.dvdtown.com/images/displayimage.php?id=3077

    http://www.vdare.com/posts/blacks-leaving-california-for-the-same-reason-whites-are

    http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19007435?source=rss

    California is not the same...
    Latinos don't really value 'diversity'....and so as more 'apple pie' Americans flee the area, what's left in it's place is, well a population that doesn't really like or value others who aren't culturely like them...

    The rich cultures that made that whole area so special decades ago, is evaporating and being replaced by tatood gang members, who have a totally different vision of this country, the direction it should go in, and their place in it...

    If civil war ever breaks out again...I doubt very highly it will be 'black vs white'...not even...

    Rather I think it will be a culture war....the Alamo all over again...a clash of cultures...

    I just had no idea at the speed it was already taking place...
     
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    And I leave you tonight or this early morning, with this photo I took a few days ago...in New Mexico at a truck stop located on a Indian Reservation off of I-40 West of Albaqurque....

    The dog was roaming around looking for scraps...
    Dog had a very primitave or 'gothic' or 'middle' earth look to it...
    I could see it in the Lord of the Rings movie...like being the pet of one of those orc goblin creatures...

    The photo came out mighty well...and the dog looks very majestic...it wasn't sure of my intentions...

    And now it's famous...we just gotta give it a name...

    Goodnight all...and please be kind to one another...
     
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    Well the day is young...lots of driving to do...

    But at least it's Saturday...

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    I tweeted Joan Rivers the 'fashion police' thread on here...

    Also...woke up and felt like doing some art...

    This one is titled: Hot coals...

    http://underworldrealities.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=140259986

    And with that...goodmorning and it's time for me to get rolling...I'll chime in again real soon...

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    I really like the pic of the dog with the 379 in the background...

    It's really cool how the coloration of the dogs fur seems to blend in perfectly with the environment captured in the photo. Almost like a natural camouflage similar to a mimic octopus...

    Anyway, great photo - hope all is well.
     
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    Thanks...

    Check this out...it's titled:Europes mistake...

    Yes...Europes mistake or mistakes...I see it everywhere...

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    Now for those who don't know me, or have never 'seen' my artistic photos...
    After reading the following..you might think I'm some 'Aryon' dude or something...not even...I'm simply writing based on observation....

    Everywhere i go today, and or conflicts I observe around the world...
    I see that Europes biggest mistake was to allow immigration...unchecked immigration....

    Europe had a vision...and American Europeans had a vision...be it not everyone was included in that vision, but none the less they had a model...a standard.

    And a constitution that allowed for Amendments to correct social injustice...

    And it took a few decades to get it right...and the ending of slavery...but America was making progress...whites and blacks kind of shared a similuar past or history within this nation...a similuar goal, worshipped a similuar Christian God....

    Rooted for the same sports teams, watched the same TV shows ect ect...

    After centuries of social and or racial embalance...an enviornment was created where all could prosper....

    Where the problems begin to occur was with unchecked immigration....

    For European nations, it was allowing, encouraging middle eastern immigrants to come up and work to help rebuild Europe after WW2...for most of Europe was left in shambles...

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    The city were left in ruins...and once rebuilding began, massive labour was needed to assist in that effort...so massive amounts of Middle Easterners were encouraged to migrate to assist in rebuilding...

    They came, but brought their religions with them...humble at first, and grateful to find work....fast forward to today...

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    So much for humble immigrants coming to Europe to start new lives and enjoy new founded freedom...

    And on our side of the Ocean...
    Massive agriculture farms, and Dairy farms, and grove owners needed labour to harvest all the produce and goods....

    The needed cheap labour in order to make a higher profit....Well America doesn't border the middle east...instead we border Mexico...and there was plenty of immigrant workers willing to come up here and start a new life...

    (in the past, after harvest season, they would go back to home nation)

    This occured throughout the 30's 40,s 50,s 60's...Whites and blacks use to participate in this kind of labour also (the grapes of wrath)...until each subsequent generation saved enough to do better...

    But those of South of the border kept coming and were still willing...as their own nations weren't really offereing a better alternative...

    This went on very quietly and under the table for decades...

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    Again, humble immigrants just wanting to carve out a better living for themselves and families, and big farms wanting to save as much labour costs as possible...

    But today...the consequence of that is...

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    Again, Europes mistake...to allow unchecked immigration...
    They are not flying the American flag here...not even...figure it out...

    Europes mistake...allowing millions of Islamic immigrants...Americas mistake...allowing millions of immigrants of all kinds, unchecked and uncontrolled who have a whole different set of values...and who don't
    buy into the whole 'melting pot' theme...

    They want you to accept them, but their communities don't accept you...

    And many immigrants coming in spout very elitist attitudes towards others not of their tongue or heritage...
    Like Islamists of the middle east, the new influx of immigrants to America aren't coming to blend in, but rather to dominate and slowly change society to reflect wherever it is they come from...

    I've gotta cut this short...wish I didn't have to, cause I'm not done yet...I want this post to be more 'rounded'...more fair...but i haven't the time right now...

    I just wanted to point out some obvious mistakes of Europe...who tried to hard to create a utopia enviornment for all...and now it's backfireing...

    And greedy corporations have helped spurn the process along...for corporations aren't loyal to no one or no nation...they go where the money and profits are and use the cheapest labour they can find...

    And as a result, the rest of us suffer...

    to be continued...
     
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