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One driver this morning made me think of this song.

I am a Jimmy Jammer! I am tonight at the big TA Truck Stop in Laredo.
That is a great old time trucking song, never heard that one before.

Simon, have a good evening in Laredo, what are hauling, and from where to where?

Haha! Thats precisely what dad was singing when he came walking up to the door after I powered out the 72 Peterbilt hauling a D8 up Tiger Ridge.

Truck has a 5 and a 4, and I got behind it. I tried to skip two and shoulda skipped 9.

I just hauled a load of transmission parts from Valley, Alabama, to Laredo.
Now am waiting for a load back to Greer SC. Probably will be a load of transfer cases to ZF Transmissions in Fountain Inn, SC.

wabigoon: You live in Ontario? I have spent many months, camping in Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario. I love that place.

Thank you for what you do Simon, things need to get to where they are needed,

Do you sleep in the truck?

I'm not a trucker per se, but I spent the afternoon behind the wheel of a Mack.

Good to hear from you kingsford, what were you hauling?

Yes I have a sleeper and I must say it is a damn comfortable bunk. I am going to hit it in about 5 minutes.
Thank you, we are often unappreciated but in fact, truck driving is one of the most important jobs.
If all truck drivers disappeared tomorrow, it would take about 5 days for a complete collapse of civilization.
Imagine, no chicken, bread, or milk at your grocery store. No gas at your gas station.
Especially in the big cities, it would take about 5 days without trucks, and the slaughter would begin. Bad guys from the inner city would roam
out to the suburbs, and kill helpless suburbanites for a bottle of vodka and a can of pork and beans.



Here I am at the big TA Truck Stop in Laredo.

Sand

Sleep the sleep of the just Simon, keep the bugs off your glass, and the bears off your, bumper.

kingsley, what is the sand used for?

Wabigoon, The wife and I were owner/operators for a short period of time..... decided that we weren't truck drivers! But, was just singing the chorus to that song the other day. I remember it well, from when I was a kid. memtb

Not a trucker, but own a truck..... does that count? Loading up and sending her off to B.C. on Monday with a load of live fish. People gotta eat!

Building cranberry bogs. I'd post pics, but tiny pic isn't cooperating.

I have to start reading these titles slower....

I'm also thinking about reading titties in the shower.

Just got done with my route. 10 years over the road 7 coming home everyday now. Restaurant delivery. Super fun getting a tractor-trailer in and out of parking lots that were designed to keep trucks out. Offloaded 1170 cases by hand today. Manual labor part sucks but I make more being home every day and working 4 days a week than I ever did running the road.