Today is Father's Day

As a Father I have been blessed with Christopher and Beth. Even if you have been away for some time now you are always in my thoughts and I wish you the best always. Thank you for the card and pictures and letter which you sent from near and afar!
With Love,
Your Father

VOLVO IS 500,000

VOLVO has turned over a half million. That's about 2900 miles per week since we made our first trip in February 2002. VOLVO will probably outdistance me as I might give her up for a new VOLVO in a couple years or maybe I'll just give her up and go on a trip somewhere in an airplane!

VOLVO

VOLVO

Reminders, reminders!

Is it good or just a waste of their money and my time? Today's mail included some information from GlaxsoSmithKline the makers of among other medications my doses of fluticasone propionate and salmeterol inhalation powder better known as ADVAIR DISKUS. (I think it should ADVAIR in a Diskus.) They don't want me to miss a dose and they don't want me to run out of doses so they offer to call me apparently twice a week to remind me to take my "snort" and they will also call to remind me to go the the drug store to get some more doses before the old supply runs out. This is today's world. So many helpers! So any reminders! I wouldn't have to remember much of anything on my own anymore! But is that good for my aging mind

I Didn't Get Caught!

Well we made it through the week without so much as a logbook check during Roadcheck 2005. In fact I had to enter a scale only once the last day but did have a bit of a scare there in Abrams as I got the little flashing red "GO TO SCALE" light as I was passing in the bypass lane. I think maybe the boys in blue were playing games as when I got to the scale platform I got the "GO AHEAD" green. Otherwise almost where ever I was they had collected enough business for the time being or they were were gone.... maybe fishing! (That's fishing for trucks somewhere else). That was nice. A trucker can't wish for more than the "big word" at the "chicken coops". The big word is of course "closed" and the "chicken coop" designation apparently grew out of the physical stucture of the scale houses with the glass fronts resembling chicken coops. So passed Road Check 2005.

There is so much to blog about!

All week I've been thinking about things to blog about. The flow of ideas is endless. So many, in fact, that it bloggles my mind and I can't come up with any one subject. The road is a "Golden Corral" of blogging subjects. There are the truckers with their many muddled thoughts expressed on the CB. There are the 4 wheelers many of them driving like here was to be no next minute. There are the construction zones many of which extend the entire 600 mile trip with short distance breaks to get ones hopes up. And the Schneider Eggs.....one after the other......millions of them. There are the receiving jerks....I mean clerks...many of whom have not even the slightest idea of why they were placed on the face of the earth. Then there is the big CVSA or Commercal Vehicle Safety Alliance road check 2005 this week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This is the event all commercal vehicle drivers would rather be watching on TV at home if it was shown on TV rather than being unwilling participants in the rabid motor carrier enforcement officers inspections. These guys just love getting on their little red creepers and sliding around under the trucks checking brake adjustments and listening for air leaks like kids listen for Santa on Christmas night. Only thing is they don't fall asleep down there but emerge to check out log books and truck registrations and shipping papers and driving licenses and health records and on and on. Oh well, that's life and we try to avoid them as much as possible. The only problem is that they are everywhere and I mean everywhere. I think I'll report on my true adventures during road check 2005 next weekend. Or maybe I'll luck out and not get caught!