An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

These inlet loads are awesome!!! Got to the shipper right at 0600, and I was loaded, secured and getting on the interstate by 0700. I honestly don't know how loading could get any faster with this load. Getting loaded that early should make it possible to deliver it on Monday...

 

I think my truck has a ghost. Every day since I left the house, the satellite box AND my TV has been randomly turning on. The satellite box will turn itself on if the batteries are down a bit and the starter uses most the energy to start and kicks the inverter off for a few seconds, but the tv doesn't do that...once on Weds, twice yesterday and once so far today when I check my passenger mirror I catch a glimpse of the tv on and the box looking for signal. It's been happening so often I keep the remotes up front now so I don't have to keep stopping to turn the stuff off. I would flip the off switch on the 6-way or on the inverter, but it takes the box a while to reboot once it looses all power.
I may need an exorcist

 

Who do I talk to in WY to persuade them to stop ordering snow? When deciding my route the other day, I checked the various forecasts for WY and MT... No mention of accumulating snow going either way when I would be traveling thru the area. So, I decided WY (I've seen enough of MT and SD lately). Wake up this morning, west of Ostergard Inc...and from Cheyenne to Laramie was orange and red on Google Maps. Seems as though they got some accumulating white stuff...#### you Punxsutawney Phil!!!! However, I still managed 2 back to back 700+ mile days, even with the snow, and thanks to WY road crews, there is mud running down from my roof across my windshield. Unfortunately, I won't have a 700 miler tomorrow, closest I can get is the Space Age there near Hermiston @ 690...

 

Aren't there just a few drivers that haul that junk?

 

Had a scale officer at the new ID scales (west bound just west of the garden of Eden exit) pull me around back today. She was convinced I hadn't secured my load....On the inlets, the pallets they are connected to are just as wide as the deck of the trailer and are 8' long, so basically only the front one and the back one need 2 straps, the rest only need one (being under 10' and only weighing 1000 lbs). Since I am only needing to keep them from sliding side to side and not holding at a downward angle, I only use the winches on the driver's side because the loader loads them from the passenger side, so it's easier to slide them thru from the safe side. I guess she couldn't see the strap hooks behind the rubber strip of the conestoga on the passenger side. While she was out there she decided to have me flash my lights and turn signals...but I didn't get any paperwork from her. Since that sucker opened, that scale has pulled me in to weigh me every time I come thru there. I am light, but the road estimators said to pull in, the guy ahead of me and behind me got to bypass.