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

According to the apartments I live in there’s trees down all over the complex… And I live 70 miles from the coast… A lot of wind damage I believe there’s something like almost 2 1/2 million people without power

 

I hope it calms it's butt down by the time I get across Arkansas... Rain, and some wind is fine, but too much makes the truckstops fill up with fair weather drivers.

 

I’m glad i was sent out near Albuquerque. In Boise City, OK and nothing but clear blue skies with the occasional cloud

 

Spirit/triumph was my home away from home for a lot of the wing guys for a long time. It’s all but a ghost town now. Sadly all of the actual wing building got moved to ga or overseas.

As far as legal loads go, the load of empties your hauling will eventually be reloaded and sent right back. We have a few teams that do nothing but Tulsa to wa. I’ve never loaded slats or flaps there before. My money would be on Wichita.

My unload went smooth as well. Pulled in, unchained, unloaded, went and found someone to sign the paperwork. They didn’t even look at the machine.

I was permitted at 14’4”. Routed under a a 14’3”, a 14’2” and a 13’6” bridge in the last 5 miles. I dropped my air and measured the first two before I went under them. The last one I went around, it was too far down the road to bail out of I couldn’t fit. Nothing a gravel road through/to a neighborhood can’t fix. There was nothing on the gravel portion of the road, once I got to the neighborhood it was paved. Seems like it was built just to get around that short bridge.

That load must have paid good, I’m bouncing 1000 miles to NJ for the next load.

 

Used to be, in Indiana, you could run FARM plates, and get away with weight regulations, driving hours, etc. But you were only allowed to haul material from your farm, or to your farm.

That may have changed.

 

Is this the old moore yard @supersnackbar?

 

@supersnackbar is gonna be brought in for questioning

 

Hearing this will make me shut up about the heat in California

 

That looks like the old Church Hill shop/office. I was told by the Wylie maintenance boss (when he was in Arlington) they lost the AGC account, so hopefully nobody was hurt. Maybe they're taking a page out of the Flying Pilot manual on how to remodel a building and let the insurance company pay for it.

 

Ya know, the downside of working for a west coast company is, my logbook is on Pacific Time...so when I am back east and want to leave at my usual 2 am to beat traffic, it's still yesterday on my logbook.