Do you guys lay around all winter when the roads get bad?

Mid December until first part of March, I go to the tropics of Thailand. Don't care if I ever see snow again, let alone drive in it....

 

your friend with clouse?

my dad hauled it for years, now its my turn. three weeks in and on my own still enjoying it. ask me come winter. lol

 

Yeah, he was. That was back in 2003 or so. I almost went there myself, sometimes I wish I had. But he's hauling road oil now, and I'm hauling cement.

I rode along a few times when I had nothing better to do. The average Joe doesn't realize the fun that can be had doing farm pickup. As I said earlier, once my house is paid off in roughly 7 years, and my retirement has a pile of money, I may consider milk hauling.

 

Hard workers? Guys with toys, homes, land . . . . me?

 

I second the hard work. That second walmart job pulling in 1200 a month after taxes on top of another full time job helped pay out cars (Plural) off years ahead of term and the home on a 15year was paid in 5.

Other jobs that are add ons to where sometimes we worked 24/7 in very careful schedules with several employers with purpose built days off so that we catch up on the sleep bill managed to disposed of a very large amount of problems with that house in it's time.

When we finally got to where it's no good to keep working like that, the house was a refuge with hardly nothing left to do to it to keep up for the next 40 years everything was done that could be done. We certainly did not sell it at a profit, but the buyer we allowed to have it for her price was able to enjoy a quiet life in it from what happened to her prior to her divorce payout that permitted her to purchase the haven for herself. So I hope the best for that new home owner.

Here in the South you can get a home and some acerage for hardly nothing compared to either coast or north east. 30K, 50K or so gets you a on site constructed home and a bit of land to go with it. Compared to say half a million dollars back in Maryland plus property taxes close to 10K a year. They can stuff it. Taxes here are a couple hundred at most for a few acres and a few old vehicles. Less than that if you are VA Vet and or disabled with SS. They freeze those for the remainder of life where we are.

What is unfortunate is that the wages paid to people are not enough to buy a home and keep it considering what goes out every month in a house budget these days. As of 1 July, the electric bill goes up 6% for the first 1500 kilowatt and then doubles after the 1500 kwH threshold is met. I hope here in Arkansas you do not burn very much electricty. There was a time you could go through that much 20 years ago and only pay 30. But unfortunately times catch up.

 

Here out west there is a slogan that we live by "work smarter not harder" everyone wants to live fat. The idea is to not be that hamster on a wheel no going anywhere. The point of this thread was convince O/O to starve out the brokers before they starve out you. They drive down rates in jan and feb, the solution is to take the winter off unless rates double in the winter

 

How do we ever get anything done in Canada

 

I wish I could hang up my keys during "hard water fishing weather" and spend the season on the slopes...Must live too high on the hog. I getting to where I had to install step in bindings on my board for my weekly rides on the mountain. Yes those are the awesome GNU bindings ya'll heard about

 

It's crazy what some states call a "national emergency". Back home it would be a mild snowstorm.

That in no way was a dig at our southern neighbours. It's just snow. Learn to drive

 

There is a sick part of me that loves it when the weather man says a storm is coming.... then everyone runs out and cleans out every morcel of food the grocery store has to offer as if the apocalypse is coming...

Maybe it has something to do with me being a food hauler.. I've always found it hilarious though.