What if it Snows?

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    You have to have a screw lose to slide down the side of a mt on frozen water with 2 sticks. Low skilled skiers skid the skis edges. Advanced skiers ride the edges,carvers.
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    Yeah, those old V8 Detroit has to build compression, until then they sounded like they didn’t have any oil and barely wanted to run until then.
     
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    Another thing about driving a cabover, as I’ve driven Ford, international, Peterbilt and Freightliner cabovers, winter, you freeze to death.
    Be driving in your coveralls, with a blanket across your lap, down to your feet, and still be about to freeze to death.
     
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    Pain makes you feel alive.
     
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    Pain and freezing are somewhat different until it goes to frostbite
     
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    I have people tell me trucks were very drafty in the 70s and 80s.
     
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    Freeze in the Winter, cook in the Summer and then it starts to WIIS.....
     
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    Go Back A Few Decades To The Beginning Of Trucking BEFORE Interstates.
    Rough Roads, Skinny Wheels, NO HEAT, Some Trucks Had Sleeper On TOP Of Cab & No Heat or Cool.
    I Talked With An Elder Gent Latter 2000 Decade, He Was in His Eighties Then, Yet Sprite, Active & Hilarious, At A D.O.T. Medical Testing Place In Greensboro, NC, Who Was Involved With Design & Build Of Trucks In The Latter 30's and On.
    He Had Some Interesting & Humorous Stories, The Kind That Used To Be Heard, Nationwide, At Truck Stop Diners.

    He Didn't Mention Much at All About "What If It Snows?"!!