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I got one of those loads yesterday. Picks up tomorrow and delivers Monday. I do get 2 days layover pay to baby sit the freight from the comfort of my home.

One question, how flexible is Superthane hose in cold weather?

Great read! Informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing. Maybe we shouldn't have been so hard on cbear for his idea of converting a school bus into an expedited freight hauler. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: It's not always the destination but the journey that matters in the end...

You rang?

What exactly is the question?

I have noticed hat very same thing. For me, most of the people I know are middle and lower class types. The few rich people I know, none of them are super rich, all complain about taxes. So I guess statistically anyway, I would hear more bitching about taxes from the middle and lower middle...

What is the current status of this bus? You could have a potential buyer here on E.O.

I drove for an LTL carrier for 13 years driving Ford 9000s. Many of those years were doing city P&D, early start "volume" loads. I spent lots of hours at grocery houses sleeping over the wheel in the parking lot, on the clock. I took so many naps that at times I thought I was a Teamster. I'd...

Oh yeah, single axle, leaf springs, split bench seat, armstrong steering and a two stick gearbox. Hot in the summer and cold in the winter. In retrospect I feel fortunate to have had a taste of what trucking was like in the 1950s even though this was the late 1970s.

No, that was a 1957 B model.

That's not old. It's an R model built sometime after the early 1970's. I've driven older Macks.

Stay there. South and east of the Cities there is heavy snow and high winds.

Why? She's not Amish.

Okay then.

. Amish Tractor/Trailer. .

It's me me me me Moot Moot Moot Moot

She could have been trained by her 17 year old cousin.

Her 17 year old cousin was with her.

She should have stayed with the horse and buggy. It's a very steep learning curve from horse and buggy to tractor/trailer in one year.