Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

I was passed last week by an O/O in LA. I was rolling along 68ish...and he blew my doors off. He had to be rolling 70-75 mph, and it was a former Shaffer/Crete Cascadia. I thought they goverened the trucks they sold to their drivers to 70. Maybe he had it paid off...don't know.

 

I moved in the new truck Sunday, sitting at the hotel now, because they had to order parts for it.
I planned on putting in the CB and switching my Prepass over today, but they called the hotel and they came right over and got me. Oh well.
I bought a perch for the antenna, stupid mirrors.
I spent about 3 hours in the drivers lounge while they were working on the truck. We have some scary drivers, not mean scary, but introverted scary.

 

scary.......like slingblade guy....in the movie

 

He's safer
Scary, like, I sit down beside the table beside him and put down my 475 degree machine coffee, and say " God dAnn this coffee is hot"
He immediately brings up the 14 hour rule.
My only salvation is the black guy in front of us, he makes a call and is talking loudly. I mutter that I can't here, to the psycho.
Calls over, psycho says "who is he" several times, black guy is confused, he thinks, is psycho talking to him or tv. I grin at black man and scurry out of there.
Later the tv room is fuller, some office gal had psycho go with her, he never came back.

 

Was probably Tonn and he escaped from his office again....

 

It's the cell phone fever, I used to be hooked to mine when I was out, I hope I still ain't.
Tonight I walk in the bar across from the Flying J in Carlise, 2 other men in the bar engrossed with their phones, I failed at getting them to talk.
Another guy walks in, he has an old flip phone, we talk, have a hell of a time, one of the phone men puts down the phone and joins in.
Flip phone goes to the restroom and phone guy asks me how long we known each other.
I tell him we just met tonight,
Phones suck,
But the bar the hotel is in.... Yeah,... Is a Celadon training hotel, which means students who know everything, plus they have rules and can't eat their free meal in the bar, they can drink in the bar, but not with the meal....

 

Ahh ####. You already got a bird perch.

Probably a crappy aluminum one. Get by Bob's CB shop and get all stainless steel stuff. And while you're there grab a 7' Firestik. Run a generic 3 foot fiberglasser pointing down, and dead shorted to the mount (i.e. don't use the insulator), not hooked up to a coax or anything.

Like so:



This setup does better than the 102 on my car, mounted at just about center of available mass on the roof.

 

Not sure if Cascadia's are the same as the older model Freightliners, but if I ever had to have that display screen that shows mileage replaced, it always reset to 0...which was a problem over here at Poly because we have to keep track of odometer miles at the state lines...and they wanted ecm miles not the replaced screen's miles. And the only way to get those was before you start the engine, it would show ecm miles...then I had to use the old bean and do math once I was rolling.

 

Where is Bob's CB shop? I had a hard time getting my SWR's down below 1:9 on my Prostar with a groundstrap bolted to the mirror. I was wondering what I would do if I end up in a Cascadia.

 

Wow. When is Poly gonna get with the times. I was doing the stateline mileage thing back in the 90's. I used a tape recorder.