What if it Snows?

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

  1. x1Heavy

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    Don;t I know it.

    We were going 5 times a year for me for a while until caught up more or less after trucking. We had zero dental anything other than coffee, listerene and cogate toothpaste, brush etc for many years on the road. If a tooth was acting up too much after a fight, the ER found a dentist to check it right quick. (Dentist only one legally able to do teeth...) There was a great deal of repairs made when it was discovered that there was alot of damage that can be fixed before bacteria accumulates on the heart valves and try to kill me in my 40's so we had plenty of that work done.

    Ultimately 10 years worth of narcotics ruined the structure of the teeth. So out they go. It's a matter of either quality dentures or surgical installed implants (Which are around 14,000 dollars give or take)
     
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    Well ive had a banner start to this run... Loaded right to the nuts and was barely able to get axles set to be legal, then had a trailer light go out. Which I replaced in an ice covered lot at 0200 in 14° weather.

    Just now some idiot hirshbach driver had dropped his trailer blocking the isle around a corner where I couldnt see it until I was almost around said corner... So I had to back up and a snow drift ripped a mudflap off my truck. The offending dropped trailer and the snow drift both got an earful of what I think about the situation as I proceeded to make new holes in the mudflaps and reattach it...

    I'm exhausted... Good night... Eeerrr, afternoon y'all.
     
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    "Another tourist is rescued by the Fire Department after drowning in Cabo Frio beaches"


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    "Another tourist, who came to spend the high season in Cabo Frio, had to be rescued by the Fire Department after drowning. This time, the case was at Praia das Dunas.

    According to witnesses, the 27-year-old is a resident of Minas Gerais and ventured into the sea, which was very agitated, on the afternoon of Monday, 06. The rescue was triggered and the boy sent to UPA, where he received care and then released.

    Despite the increase in rescuers and emergency response, the number of drowning events in Cabo Frio has been alarming. In all, that number has increased by about 70%, and eight bathers have already died this summer alone."

    This whole article was translated, copied and paste from Cabo Frio local news.
     
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    As usual... most tourists in Cabo Frio are from the state of Minas Gerais... those folks have never seen the beach before, and they adventure in the sea, ignoring the red flags.. sometimes they are drunk... and that's what happens...:biggrin_2552:
     
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    Thank you Mr. @HillbillyDeluxeTruck but I wouldn't leave here without taking care of this first. The real estate is in my name. I am the only child my parents had... there's nobody else to take care of this but me and I wouldn't "abandon" that.. taxes are still on me and I must deal with that.
    Besides, I must clear my dad's name off of the did... I'm not sure how to explain what I meant but that's what I gotta do so that in the future I can sell or rent or donate that to someone else.
    I thank you for your concern and offer but I wouldn't pull flat bed. I want the easiest of the easiest.. dry van, no touch and no HM....
    As a matter of fact, I would like drop and hook from yard to yard, with the flexibility of choosing when to arrive and being allowed to sleep in the yard. And if I were paid by the mile, I would like that to be the odometer mileage or a rate per trip that is close to what the real mileage would be.
    I wonder where I can find such job.. but is still too early to start looking... so far I have no idea when I will be back in the USA.
     
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    Yes.. that's definitely backwards French... I learned some French when I was a young teenager... and that's bad bad French... and they were mixing French with English.. :biggrin_2552:
     
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    Good thing you said that... I also drove a porn star.. I mean, I prostar... for almost a month... and man... that POS had at least one leak per week.... :angry2:
     
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    Well the radar over Maine says snow. Yet it is only flurries. Just enough precip to slow drivers down (maybe)
     
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    They’ll also mix french and spanish to really give you a wtf moment when taking directions
     
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    She's a beautiful day for truckin in the great white north. Crisp and cold, good traction. 20200108_125034.jpg