Where is everyone #5

You still wont know what you don't know until you understand WHY.

It's like being trained to do a job, and doing the job well, but not understanding WHY you do the job the way that you do. When something goes wrong (and it will), you will not understand what's wrong.

 

Chasing snowballs with your dog?

Looks like you got a bit more than we did.

 

About 4 inches here. And of course the plow is acting up.

 

Please send some of that White Gold out to Eastern Pa Sawmill, I really enjoy Plowing in the Overnight Hours while chatting it up with @Bear135 or @wore out

 

That's good to hear

 

You can’t really do a job well unless you understand why. And the only way to understand why is to ask. I know it comes off as a stupid question to a more experienced hand. But, that’s because you know “why”.

 

I've done the plastic junk truck pullin an rgn thing...never ran real heavy, just slightly oversized. It falls back on learning what not to do. But I learned how to run an rgn on someone elses dime.

 

Training will never replace experience.

 

Happens every day. That's why so many feel that "you can train a monkey to drive a truck." Some monkeys even earn the coveted Million Safe Mile Award. But when you ask them How-To and Why, monkey says, "I was TAUGHT to do it this way."
Examples of MonkeyTraining

Years ago, I was running across 90 in Montana. The roads were snow covered. I was driving up a grade in the right lane, gaining on a Swift truck (not knocking Swift, but this just so happened to be a Swiftie), when suddenly he braked and came to a halt to engage his power divider. I cut left and went around him. Some guys couldn't go left in time and got stuck behind Swiftie on a grade and icy roads. Of course they started screaming and calling down evil. Swift, angry at them, yelled out in defense, "I was taught to do it this way!"

The other Monkey Training comes in when people talk about mountain grades, Monkey says, "I was taught that I should go down the same gear that I went up." Odds are, he will NEVER have an issue. But does he...understand? Can he do the job well? Sure, just look for the MillionMileMonkeySticker on the side of the truck.

One day Monkey decides to capitalize on his Monkey Training, and buy a truck. Monkey wants to heavyhaul, because 'that's where the big bucks is.' Monkey goes out and buys a POS fleet truck and tries to apply his Monkey Training to OSOW. First thing Monkey wants to do is do the numbers. "What is a good rate per mile for a heavy haul truck?" No one answers. Lurking Monkey, who runs a lease purchase truck for $0.90cpm+fsc, tells Monkey what he learned from his friend OOMonkey, "$2/mile!" So Monkey takes his POS fleet truck, buys an RGN, and books a load, 50000lbs going from Fargo to Baltimore for $2/mile.
6 weeks later, Monkey is dead broke and decides to go into pulling tankers because 'thats where the money's at.'

 

In my hotel room waiting to go to orientation tomorrow!