Women, The Real Power

http://realwomenintrucking.com/119/wild-west-women/

Please read the link. Other than the lost eye, I so identify with wanting to be left alone and contributing to society.

A good read!!

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Dark Chocolate...

'Nuf said. If I have to 'splain it, you'd never understand...

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Just Paid $5.39 For A Sandwich At TA. Never Again!!

The backstory first...we got loaded and then stopped in at the TA in Troutdale. Had to have my daily Pepsi and hubby needed his Kona Coffee.

Now, the story (and gripe)....I grabbed a couple of the fancy sandwiches out o9f the case. Usually, in most places, they are priced something lik 2/$5.00. Grabbed some dark chocolate to boot, headed to the checkout.

My total came to a bit over $16. Really, I didn't think much of it, so used to high prices in 'stops.

Then, I got to thinking about it and dug out the receipt, which had found the trash. Looked up the prices....really, I shouldn't have...

"$5.39 for a SANDWICH!!"

I mean, by its' lonesome. No chips or pickles, no nuthin'. All by itself.

Let me make this clear, from now on, no way in hell will I buy another sandwich from TA for this much money.

...and then the 'stops wonder why we go to Wmart and similar to buy our food.

So. Totally. Annoyed.

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Have To Make This A Quick Post!!

I'm almost out of time from TA!!

Yikes!!

Anyway, I'm trying to set up a Twitter account just for Lost Adventures in Trucking.  I got in too big a hurry and messed something up, so, of course, it doesn't work.  I'll redo it the next time I'm on the laptop. 

Also, I thought of a Facebook page for this blog too.  My personal blog has too much personal things on it, so, a LAIT FB page would be perfect. 

Hang in with me, you guys all know I'm computer challenged, but I will get it done!!  I am tenacious, if nothing else!!

Sings Speaking The Truth!!

However, your kid probably behaves better than my dog. In fact, I know they do. My dogs don't mind one whit.

We go through a lot of Windex, cleaning nosey prints off'n the windows.

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It Helps To Turn Off Heater Hose When You Need A/C Desperately

Here's how this went down...we are on a strict regime with our adorable KW. No more than 12,000 miles between oil changes.

So, everyone know, I'm sure, how feckin' hot it's been this summer. Our A/C hasn't been keeping up one whit. We thought it was just THAT hot, know what I mean?

So's we are in Rapid City and took her to the Boss Shop. After doing his stuff under the hood, the guy came up to me and said we'd be a WHOLE lot cooler now, now that he'd turned off the heater hose thingy.

Well, duh, no wonder! It's almost like night 'n day with the cool. Almost freezing me out right this very minute!

There is a lesson to be learned in here sum'eres. I'm sure there is....

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Hauling Railroad Intact Track...Go By Truck, Won't Get Lost!!

We hauled this for a major railroad line. That is four sections of 40-ft. sections of ties and track.

Hubby asked the shipper why they didn't haul their own product and the guy responded that truck was better. Why, you may ask? Well, we can get it to the destination lots faster plus we won't lose it for a month!!

Yup, the shipper actually said if the RR hauls it, it's not a priority (??) And their trailer will get put somewhere and it'd be a month minimum before it would be found.

Now, to my mind, if there were ever a reason to keep us truckers on the road, this is it. We're faster plus, we don't lose whole trailers, with product, for a month.

Yup, the country needs us truckers....

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Pilot Truckstops Are Putting In Gyms/Finess Centers

Good call!! Oh, yeah, we need those gyms! It has been way too hot to get out to walk and come winter, well, too cold and slippery. Another thing, I was mugged several years back in a parking lot so I have a fear of walking around by myself.

So, in my book, this is a good thing. I'll carry my disinfectant and spray anything I touch too. Kinda a germaphobic. Nothing new for me in this regard.

But, ain't it great? I hope it all comes together!!

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Got A New Inverter

No more truckstop coffee!! Yay!!

It's a 1000 watt-er but still, as long as I have my coffee, the good stuff, I can deal with whatever happens. Life is barely worth living without GOOD coffee!!

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Stand With Israel

No explanation needed. If you need an explanation, I don't know how to tell you so you would understand. May be too far gone...

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Inverter Went On Fritz, NO Coffee!! Noooooo!!

Yep, just about the worst thing that could happen to a trucker is to lose the coffee machine. Since the coffee maker is powered by the inverter (besides powering the micro, my laptop, etc.), it is an absolute catastrophe when the sucker goes south.

Alas, inverters only last a year and almost to the day, it lost its' mojo. *sigh*

We stopped in at Petro but they wanted a king's ransom for it, even using out points. So, we went on. Then we stopped at Mittens Truckstop and found the same one for $50 less!! Yahooo!!

Now, hubby has to put the thing in. We bought coffee this AM that was supposed to be Kona, but I'm the Queen of England if that was Kona. Wasn't a nice thing to do to us truckers, BTW.

Anywho, soonest we'll have coofee brewing in the cab!! Soooo glad!!

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While I'm Thinking About This....

For some reason, I can't seem to log in to write posts from my phone.  I have Blogger-droid on there and I can't get it to work right now.  Maybe the owners are doing an upgrade or something but I have to wait till I get on my laptop to write a new post.

I'll keep trying and hopefully, it will work itself out.  If not, my posts may be a leeeetle bit farther apart. 

I'll do my best!! 

Got My Bell Rung Today, Big Time

THIS IS IMPORTANT!!

We had a load of shingles to pick up, tarp and then on to the customer in Kansas.  I drove in and parked.  The forklift guy loaded all and hubby and I started to strap it all down. 

Welp, hubby usually yells when he's throwing the strap over but for some reason, he didn't this time.  He threw the strap over...where is smacked me in the jaw, neck and upper shoulder!!  I mean, I saw STARS!!  My knees went wobbly and for a couple of seconds, I couldn't think straight.

Somewhere in there, I yelped a "Goddamn it!!" and that set hubby to hustling around the trailer!!  He grabbed me and held me up, all the while asking what had happened. 

When I could finally, finally get a coherent sentence out, I sure told him...between all the tears that sprang to my baby blues! 

Poor hubby, he apologized and apologized.  He has felt so badly all day.  It was a true accident, poot happens. 

That is the first time in nine years that anything of this sort has ever happened.  We are so careful around the rig and yet, something like this still happened. 

My jaw and teeth/gums are sore.  My neck is kinked just a smidge and my shoulder is a bit sore.  Nothing big, I've had way worse happen training horses.  So, I took some Aleve and just chilled all day. 

From now on, we've had a wake up call and will have to be way more careful in the future.  Things like this happen too easily! 

Sounds Like IL Is Trying To Help The Trucker

http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=74416

I hope this link works. Anywho, IL is putting out a brochure showing the best routes for truckers. Because most GPS are for 4 wheelers and can get a big rigger in trouble, *ask me how I know*, unless there is some hidden bug in the brochures, this sounds purty good to me.

BTW, I have a GPS and don't use the damn thing. It's on the shelf and that's where it will stay.

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Am Back...With The Flu, Of All Things

We've been so busy, what with moving and all, then coming back to work and driving our fingers to the bone!  Then, add on top of THAT, the friggin' heat and you've got a compromised immune system that finally gives up and says "Uncle".

So be it.  I guess it's the flu, have all the symptoms.  Not going to the doctor because it's a viral thing and nothing can be done.  Just don't need any secondary infections but hopefully will avoid that.

Anyway, we unloaded this AM in the *(&$#*%& heat and will reload in the morn in the *($*&%$( heat.  At least we'll be heading to WA state, where it's hopefully cooler.

Speaking of cooler, just the other day, we were in the middle of Oregon and it was 36 degrees!!  YES!  Can you believe??  It felt soooo good after all this heat from the summer. 

At any rate, I don't feel so good and am going back to bed.  More stories to come in the near future...

Drove Smack Into A Tornado Today!

I have videos but I can't get them to load from my phone.  I guess I'll have to put the vids on my laptop and then post them.

At any rate, I was driving northbound on I-35 in Oklahoma and all of a sudden, it was like I was underwater, like a wave had washed over us!  I barely made it to the edge of the highway and parked.  I hoped like hell I didn't run over anyone or someone hit us, that's how bad it was! 

At first we thought it was a bad rain squall but we've been in enough tornados to know what the wind does and it was was swirling.  I think I got about four vids and you can tell I am scared.  I'm not religious in the least but this time, I did call upon the name of the Lord.  I think that's human nature.

Anyway, I grabbed one dog and hubby had the other.  If our truck went over, I wanted my babies safe and sound.  All the other stuff in the truck can be replaced but our babies sure can't.  The truck rocked and rolled and I couldn't get over how a heavy rig could be pushed around as it was.  We had a load of generators on the deck, tarped.  The wind actually pulled the tarps out in the front and back!  Broke some of our bungees too!  No tears in the the tarp as far as we know, though.

The tough part was the truck behind us, I passed him to park on the side of the road, got blown over!  I looked in the rear view mirror and in a lull in the wind, I saw he was over.  Then a bull hauler and another flatbed passed us and THEY got blown over.  The bull hauler was spilling fuel all over the place.  There was another blown over truck a bit farther down the road but we couldn't find the driver.  Still don't know what happened to him.  I hoped he wasn't under his truck.  It's possible.

I was pretty rattled by this point and once the storm had passed, I drove on and up to exit 211 to the Loves.  Except just about 30 seconds before I exited, a travel trailer in front of me blew over on the off ramp!  So, hubby ran up to see if he could help.  We sat there for an hour, till the State Patrol and a tow truck could get things squared away.  The owner of the trailer wasn't hurt but his trailer is going to need some big time TLC and rehab.  A monster claim, it will be! 

We pulled into the Loves' parking lot, finally, only to find it didn't have power.  A powerline was down and it will be 3-4 days before power is restored. 

So, then, we thought we'd go down to the rest area, so we could use the bathroom.  You guessed it, it was closed....  So, we went a little farther and found this truck stop and I backed this baby in and then nuked some soup and am bunked in with my laptop and TV, dogs at my feet. 

Today was the scariest day we've ever had related to truck driving.  I'm so glad it's OVER. 

Just Watch This!! Two Dogs Discussing Who Gets The Bed

Ingenious. Loves it! Self-explanatory

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Getting Loaded, Another Day, Another Dollar

This one of them, thar loads that drive me bats. A bunch of smaller pieces...and that means I have to use more straps to hold the damn things on.

Howsomeever, I have a job with great Bennies, a great company and plenty of money...guess I'll suck it up and not complain. Life is really good.

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All Moved In!!

Got pretty much the whole house situated. Have a jawjus view of fields and mountains. Trees as well. But we are on our way to pick up our rig and then back on the road. Gots' to make some money and replenish the bank account.

So, soonest I'll be back to my snarky self and venting away!! Stay tuned!!

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A Driver Is Missing Their Dog!!

Win Griff (@Wybry) has shared a Tweet with you:

"Wybry: Missing Truckin Dog "Queenie" was seperated from her owner in Oregon (pls share & RT) #TruckerTuesday #OR #Dogs http://fb.me/19grc56gi"
--http://twitter.com/Wybry/status/98528161523970048

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Sorry, Gang, Am Moving Into New House...

This place fell into our laps and jumped on it like a hen on a junebug. So, we're scrambling like mad to empty storage and get things in the house. No rhyme or reason, just in the house. Then we have to go back out for more much needed dough and back home to fishish and fine tune.

Kinda bites that we don't have scads of money lying around so we don't have to interrupt moving, y'know??

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