Is Texas a good state for freight?

I had the same problem with an above-ground pool when I lived in San Antonio, and I found a real simple way to cool it off quickly: air bubbles.

Get 2 pieces of drainage PVC (the kind has holes pre-drilled in it) or drill holes in regular PVC. Join them together with a tee fitting in the middle, and cap the ends. Run a length of solid pipe up from the tee, and put a rubber plumbing adapter on the end. When it's time to get in the pool, insert the hose from Shop-Vac into the rubber adapter (make sure the hose is in the Shop-Vac's exhaust port), drop the PVC into the water, and fire it up. You'll only have to run it for a few minutes before the pool will be cooled down and ready to use.

 

Trying to wrap my head around why this would work. Because the air will be at what ever the temperature is outside at the time, being that this is Texas easily at 100* then cooling down to the water temperature. Then I released that your displacing the colder water at the bottom of the pool with air bubbles causing the cold water to move up to the surface causing the whole pool to cool off. You could just get a fat guy to do canon balls off the deep end and eventually get the same results.

 

I wondered about that too, so I asked a buddy of mine who was a physics major about it. He said that heat gets transferred from the water to the air along the surface of the bubbles (the "phase interface" - the place where liquid and gas touch each other) and that the heat of the air molecules (bubbles) causes them to rise through the water column and then break through the surface, carrying the heat with them as they escape into the atmosphere.

I tried that at first, but I didn't want to jump into a pool that was hot!

 

I would spend a good 3 months of the year just in Texas. So I would say yes.

Waco was the bane of my paycheque.

+ Someone stole my fuel on McCarty in Houston.

But I liked Texas overall.
It's alot like Indiana country but not as country as those Arkansas and Wyoming boys.

 

Sometimes yes sometimes no. I've been down there when the freight boards are over flowing and I've been down there when nothing is moving it seems.
Based on my experience Houston and that 10 corridor back towards Baton Rouge was usually pretty solid. Dallas and FTW was a hit or miss thing. San Antonio was never great unless it was a cheapie just to get the truck moving. Austin was terrible always. Produce out of the valley can be good if you know someone when it's running.

Unless you know someone well and speak fluent Spanish stay out of Laredo and El Paso...

You can thank a large part of low rates on mega fleets and folks that will haul for nothing.

 

I've heard over the years from drivers pulling freight to/from TX, as well as some O/Os that live in TX that freight in TX doesn't pay very well. I'm sure there is some specialized and well-paying freight in the state, but general freight rates are low like Florida.