Uncle Birchy
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Sound like my old Uncle Ed..
"You damn kids always drinking soda when I was a kid we drank just plain old water outta the sink"
How many miles did you drive today?
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"You damn kids always drinking soda when I was a kid we drank just plain old water outta the sink"
Uncle Birchy
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478.3 from Pee-Lot outside Louisville KY, drop & hook in Milwaukee, then took truck back to yard and drove home in the jeep.
I wrote on the Qualcomm that I "Died" and that I won't rise from the DEAD until the 3rd day.
That means don't call me until Tuesday
I wrote on the Qualcomm that I "Died" and that I won't rise from the DEAD until the 3rd day.
That means don't call me until Tuesday
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Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Well he is not wrong.
Uncle Birchy
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Okay "Uncle Edwin"
Electric Chicken
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I drank from garden hoses and might have gotten from a puddle or two but the former was much preferred.
My only reason for bottled water now is convenient carry in the truck. And I get cheap Aldi water. Sometimes I'll refill the bottles from my spigot.
Uncle Birchy
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I refuse to drink bottled water because of plastic waste floating in the oceans...
Pop cans are "recyclable" infact last time I took my scrap metal in they were paying 81 cents a pound for aluminum cans
Electric Chicken
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Strange logic since plastic water bottles are recyclable and cans have been found in the oceans.
Uncle Birchy
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Nah the town collects Em but since China and several other countries "banned" waste imports much of it actually ends up in a "Landfill" anyways.
The making us separate the trash is supposed to make us "Feel Good" and collecting recyclables "justifies" the Union having afew more garbage men on the payroll too
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Sarcastic remark goes here
Germantown? Ain't that every town in Wisconsin?
Uncle Birchy
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The town northwest of Milwaukee we got a customer there in the industrial park off the freewayGermantown? Ain't that every town in Wisconsin?
Uncle Birchy
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Zero today ...but I gotta go back tomorrow got a load waiting for me somewhere by Madison Wi..
Then off to Troy Ohio which I think around by Dayton
Then off to Troy Ohio which I think around by Dayton
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Come on up and join the Sourdough line drivers in Anchorage. You get to the barn at around 5:00 pm, run up to the gas station to stuff about 250 gallons of fuel in your rig (your going to average a little more than 3 mpg), run back to the yard (entire trip about a mile), check and hook up the set that's waiting for you about 90% of the time -- sometimes you help the local and yard guys make up your or another guys set --and at about 6:00 pm head up the 360 miles to Fairbanks. When you get to the Fairbanks yard, you exchange paperwork, break your set, check and hook the return set and go the 360 miles back to Anchorage, break your set, toss in your paperwork and go home. On the outbound trip, most of the guys stop 100 miles up the road at Sunshine (the nearest thing that Alaska has to a truck stop on the regular highway system) and maybe at Cantwell (after the first tough hill), Healy, or Nenanna (before the really tough hills heading north and not far from Fairbanks that began a few miles from Nenanna).
Line drivers get hourly pay for about a couple hours for fueling, checking, hooking, and breaking. Then they get more than $0.53/mile for doubles (that was the rate when I left in 2013). So they end up with about $400/a turn (they generally get back to Anchorage around 3 or 4 a.m. -- it should be remembered that one can drive 15 hours in Alaska). So I'm guessing that a lot of Alaska drivers probably would have a boring response to the question of the forum, i.e. about the same number (700 - 730).
The guys do drink some Red Bull, other energy drinks, and soft drinks but not as much as a lot of kids do. As usual, coffee and water are the drinks of choice.
Electric Chicken
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That's work. I don't go in for that sort of thing.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
I used to do that for the drivers at one yard I worked at. I would set up their trains for them because, I didn't have much to do at that time of the day and I was only subbing in as yard guy and knew how tight they were on time to do switches because I used to do the switches.
The switch drivers really appreciated it.
Energy drinks are for skateboarders. Not flatbed skateboarders but actual teenage skateboarders.
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Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Wasn't it Lenin who said that "Work was the curse of the drinking class?" or something like that?
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
I drank it once in a while but just because of its strange taste. I'm not sure that it ever gave me much energy.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
It's always nice to just check up, hook up, and "rassle" 120' of rig through traffic and then turn around and do it right at the other end of the trip. And remember when the roads are full of snow and ice to not dust whomever is at the side of the road and to clean off your lights before you get into either town.
Electric Chicken
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He stole it from me.
Electric Chicken
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I sipped it twice. Once to try it and the second time to confirm that it was indeed disgusting.
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