The wonders of electronics have taken the long haul driver of not so long ago and changed his environment from that of the solitary truck cab to that of the complete mobile office. As with any such transition the first of each of the components was fairly low tech and costly to use. Case in point, the mobile phone the first units were large, cumbersome, expensive to buy and use, had limited user areas, required operator assistance to place every call and no privacy to boot.....

On Saturday, September the 11th I had the the pleasure of sharing the adrenalin rush of working with the pit crews of three truck pulling contestants in the Potato Bowl Truck and Tractor Pulling contest held in Grand Forks, North Dakota .... Wooah what a rush.

Well this was the shakedown cruise for the new Volvo. I had to turn the old one in as it was going up for sale and after two days of transfering my personal belongings over it was time to take the new unit on it's maiden voyage. Well accept for a few problems (fuel guage sending unit has a mind of it's own and the drivers side windshield wiper suspension broke) and a lot of readjustments (trying to get all my belongings to fit and ride in the new environment, cause you know the new vehicle is never layed out the same as the old one)It's going fairly well.....