What if it Snows?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dave_in_AZ, Mar 19, 2018.

  1. 4mer trucker

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    Is that good or bad?
     
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    The frequency of Snow Storms in PA has steadily decreased yearly so I sold off my Plow and Salt Spreader back in November of 2022

    No sense being obligated anymore
     
  3. JolliRoger

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    I always wondered how they decided who went to the waiting room to advise the waitee that they were no longer needed...
     
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    Yep, just got her home. She farted the whole way. And when we got home, she got the 'surprise'! bonus fart.
     
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    Nobody. You just kinda figure it out when they say, "Its gonna be about 2 hours. What's your phone number?"
     
  6. JolliRoger

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    In 1956/5,7 J.T. Garrard hauled mostly livestock for $.35 per loaded mile. He paid us $.05 a loaded mile. Very few weeks ever less than $125.00.
    Also hauled any thing you could get in an empty cattle trailer. Crated fruit from FL to 2 Farmall "M's" /or a feed mill out of Chicago.
    Sacked grain/seed or cottonseed meal in wooden sided /tarped grain trailers. Balled nursery shrubbery in a dry van.
    I am sure some of them were priced differently but were loads/freight/paying the rate.
    Hired in a $.05; keep the discount, don/t bump the ticket. Couple of hundred cash when you left, a few credit stops in heavy lanes. Western Union if you run into missed situations. He was an IH truck dealer. So; any IH facility anywhere, you went to or got it to there.
    Phone call in (day or night, Sat or Sun, holiday) to tell where you were and what you needed. (We learned to look for IH implement dealers signs).
    He called IH, told them he had a truck down in ??, they told him the nearest dealer (or he told them where we were already) .
    IH called the dealer and told him fix it and bill IH, they would bill Garrard. Instant credit, and accommodation. And some real mechanics too.
     
  7. Espressolane

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    How many do you have?
     
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    So you walk across the street to the bar and drink beer for a couple hours waiting and then have to call one of the kids out on a rescue mission???
     
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    Boo ….@70K / 15 wide

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  10. Dave_in_AZ

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    Just woke up from an emergency rhinoceros visitation.