I was messing around with my Linux desktop settings and kinda like the results. This is my current Gnome desktop. WIth a terminal window open With Firefox running Nothing too fancy, but I kinda like it.

I am parked at a truckstop on I 75 at the GA/FL line. I have 4 stops to make in Florida and will then be home for the weekend. I'm looking forward to a bit of R&R after a month on the road. I have 2 generators on trailers to deliver, a large generator, and a car wash. All spread all over the state, Jacksonville, Tampa, Riviera Beach, and Pomano Beach. I should have all four stops off by Friday afternoon and then can head home. I hope the weather is nice so I can get a bit of cycling in. ...

Two days ago I bought a Hot Pocket in a truckstop and popped it into the microwave (nuker). I took it out and had a bite. I heard a "sssssssssss" even before I felt the pain. The cheese in this thing had reached a temperature approaching that of the sun. The roof of my mouth, right behind my teeth, is badly blistered and swollen and hurts like hell. I can't eat anything and I keep biting into the blister when I forget and close my mouth too quickly. These things really should come with a H...

One of the great things about specialized hauling is that it quite often takes me off the interstates and onto secondary highways, country roads, and sometimes even dirt roads. I don't make pick ups or deliveries at the large distribution centers but rather go to military bases, airports, farm implement dealers, and construction sites. Today I delivered part of my current load to a small factory in Savanna, IL. They are having some construction work done and I delivered some aluminum cable...

I just pumped some fuel into my truck. As Illinois deisel is so expensive compared to many other places, $2.95 here, I only filled one tank. It took right at 100 gallons. This particular truckstop provides you with a free meal if you buy at least 100 gallons of fuel and, as it's lunch time, I took advantage of it. So, for a mere $295 one can get a free meal. Fuel is getting outrageously expensive everywhere. I saw one truckstop here in Illinois the other day that was pricing their deisel a...

After delivering the fire truck to the Air Force base this morning I went into St Louis to pick up another load. Just about the time I arrived I got a call telling me that load had cancelled. Oh well. Sometimes that happens. I made my way to the truckstop (one with WiFI of course) and awaited a call for another load. I got the call this afternoon, the place was only 15 miles from me. Cool! I trucked on over there to see what they had for me. It was an 80ft boom lift. My first question was...

After delivering the broken down fire truck to the factory in Oshkosh today I loaded another fire truck heading for Scott AFB in IL near St. Louis. This presents particular problems as it's not only 10 feet wide but quite high, well over legal limits once loaded on the trailer. Once I got it back here to the yard I had to make it less tall. I let most of the air out of the tires and used chains and binders to "squash" it down some. I got it down from 15 feet high to 13 ft 11" high. Best I ...

Technology, as in computers and assorted other electronic gadgets, has slowly but surely crept into just about every facet of our modern lives. From The obvious things like personal computers to the more bizzare things like automatic toilet seat sanitary covers and battery operated nose hair trimmers. It's pretty hard to get away from it these days. At one time I was an anomaly among truckers. The "strange" trucker-geek with a laptop computer. "Why do you need a computer?" "What the hell d...

As you may well imagine driving a truck around the country for a living allows a person a lot of time to think, reflect, and ponder the mysteries of life. For a long time now I have been examining life, the universe, and everything in an attempt to unravel one of the mysteries philosophers have pondered for centuries; the secret to life. After countless hours of mental study, observations of the human condition, and deep reflexions upon life, I have finally discovered the true secret to li...

A few minutes ago as I was sitting here catching up on some internet reading someone knocked on the door of my truck. It was a guy standing there, early 30s, wearing a white tee shirt, blue jeans, and a ball cap. He looked a bit agitated. I rolled down my window, keeping my double edged knife low and out of sight beside my seat (truckstops are very dangerous places), and asked him what he wanted. He proceeded with a rather rushed story about locking his keys in his car, a locksmith, and a ...

In trucking, the one thing you can always be sure of is the fact that you can never really be sure of anything. After delivering the remainder of my load at the Air Force base in Goldsboro, NC I was supposed to go to the AIrport in Jacksonville, NC and pick up a fire truck heading for Tampa, FL. I was looking forward to going by the house while I was there. I arrived at the airport no problem and loaded up the fire truck. Just about that time my dispatcher calls me to say that the truck wa...

I delivered the rescue truck at the Greenville Spartanburg airport this afternoon. It went without a hitch. The ride down here is another story. Yesterday as I was running I 465 around Indianapolis a dump truck came racing out from an on ramp at full speed. The idiot at the wheel never bothered to look. If he had he would have seen my rig, complete with over sized load signs, amber beacons flashing, all the lights on, and red flags all over it. I had traffic on my left so I couldn't sim...

I'm on my way to Oshkosh,WI to pick up a military truck going to Greer, SC. Maybe I'm just feeling lazy tonight or maybe it's the nagging pain in my hip but I decided to stop short and get a hotel room for the night. I'm still 3 1/2 hours from Oshkosh and probably should have kept going but I saw this hotel right off the interstate with a big sign that said "truck parking/trucker rates" and "free high speed internet" and took the exit. My dispatcher will probably be a tad miffed at me tom...