Crossing the Border with a tractor full of stuff of an unknown driver

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by PIKARUX, Oct 11, 2019.

  1. Intothesunset

    Intothesunset Road Train Member

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    Find a company job with dedicated trucks, no switch seat.
     
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    True enough. I converted airline security to TSA out of convenience. There were alot of things that the terrorists were able to get away with in those days. For example at a Venice Flying school the story goes they wanted to master a Airliner but did not want instruction on landing the same. Try that at any flying school today and see how far you get.

    I also believed the vanishing of the FSX 2002 version which featured the twin towers and the sears tower were very rapidly removed from the market. I had a oppertunity to purchase one the previous week in software gaming but chose not to unaware of how fast they would pull something like that off market.

    Homeland security was created by two senators one of whom were attacked by Antrax in the mail and there were a couple of other attacks as well. (Founding of HS was after 9-11 happened)

    If you were to measure in electronic sensors data on the engine, transmission and behavior of our 18 wheeler for the three weeks after 9-11 happened, I have to say that everyone around us were perfect textbook in driving. I remember that time period because there was zero problems or incidents related to say heavy brake applications or heavy deceleration. Absolutely zero. The people were flawless in their driving. Its too bad that it took a major event to scare them to drive properly because in those days the Lawmen were coming out of the woodwork, especially in the direction of NY or DC.

    I don't remember too much from that year going into winter other than the wife getting sick the way she did and the advice of our doctor for her to stop trucking al togehther and a team of doctors that were beginning to work on me head to toe across the major systems such as vision, heart in particular and teeth etc. They were looking at a minimum of 10+ years of total neglect in my health and body which accumulated problems that need fixing. I did not understand how sick I was until approximately 2004. The bones took longer. The original survey with dozens of Xrays was brutal but the bones glowed with health which meant that I was eating well.

    Fast forward to the 2007 survey which revealed damage sufficient to eat into the bones and in the T Section of my spine enough to affect the marrow production of blood cells which led doctors to think I was anemic before they actually confirmed Osteopenia officially. It was not more than a couple of years after when they discovered osteoarthritis.

    The doctors were pretty good here in Arkansas but many have retired. And so I have to work around the losses with more doctors and repeat all of the convoluted medical history up until that point.

    If the heart survey does not go well the first week of Nov, I have plans set aside. And we will cross that bridge at some point.
     
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