Darn will you look at that there's a truck backing up and he's blocking the whole street -- well if I sneek behind him I can get through that little hole and be on my way before he knows I'm here Crunch --Crash --oops guess I was wrong -- stupid trucker couldn't he see what I was doing. The lament of the four wheeler who thought he could then proceeded to join the ranks of the untold number of fools to impatient for their own good. Today a story from a fellow truck driver Phillip from South Carolina. Thanks Phillip

Sometimes trains wobble and yep sometimes they do fall down. We often hear on the news about train derailments and sometimes how people from this or that town had to be evacuated. I recently had the privledge of working with Southwest Salvage moving a number of grain cars that had gone off the tracks near Newdale, Manitoba, Canada.

This trip ment a fairly decent run starting in Winnipeg and going to New Kingstown, Pa then a reload in Milroy, Pa. to Kamloops, B.C. with a drop in Armstrong, B.C.which is located on Highway 97A just a hop skip and jump south from Sicamous, B.C. on the Trans-Canada Highway #1. From here it,s a slight dip farther south just about to Vernon, B.C. where I link up with highway 97 for the 65 mile northwest leg over to Kamloops.....

You may remember an article I did a while back called Life's Curves. Well here is a little update on the happenings with my friend Dale....

This is a story involving the teller, George an owner operator with Kleysen transport.

On this past trip to New Kingstown, Pennsylvania, after emptying out, Lois and I headed up to Milroy, PA for our reload. After reloading we ran into George at the truck stop and when I explained about my channel he related this story. It seems that on one trip while southbound on I-39 in Illinois, as he approached the Rest Area at mile marker 81, he heard a faint "help me" coming over the CB radio.....

The world of RSS and or Weblogs is a phenominal way to get the word out to the public at large as to all that you and your business have to offer. You have the opportunity to have your content picked up and passed on to audiences far removed from your own sphere of subscribers through the use of a wonderful networking tool called syndication.....

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.